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There is currently limited information and guidance on utilising participatory research within forensic mental health settings. This systematic review aimed to explore the use of participatory research within those settings, identify helpful practices, barriers and challenges, as well as explore the impact reported of participatory research in research and knowledge production. [...]

Medical imaging fusion combines complementary information from multiple modalities to enhance diagnostic accuracy. However, evaluating the quality of fused images remains challenging, with many studies relying solely on classification performance, which may lead to incorrect conclusions. [...]

In mammals, specific brain regions such as the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus and the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the lateral ventricles harbor adult neural stem/progenitor cells (ANSPCs) that give rise to new neurons and contribute to structural and functional brain plasticity. In contrast, other vertebrates such as salamanders and zebrafish exhibit a widely distributed neurogenic niches throughout the brain, suggesting a greater neurogenic capacity in adulthood. [...]

Interdisciplinary collaboration between neurologists and cardiologists is needed to provide state-of-the art stroke care and individualized decisions about secondary prevention strategies. This highlights the need to establish working structures for joint decision-making between cardiologists and stroke neurologists. [...]

Intermittent rhythmic delta/theta activity (IRDA/IRTA) detected via electroencephalography (EEG) has been implicated in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric illnesses. Therefore, a combined EEG and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) approach was applied in a transdiagnostic group of patients with different causalities, i.e., autoimmune-mediated (in suspected autoimmune psychiatric syndromes [APS]) and primary psychiatric (borderline personality disorder [BPD]) causalities, as well as in healthy control (HC) participants, to characterize the brain regions functionally correlated with IRDA/IRTA.Overall, 135 EEG-fMRI datasets met the quality criteria, including 33 patients with suspected APS, 59 cases with BPD, and 43 HC participants. [...]

Laser-capture microdissection (LCM) enables the collection of regions of interest from target tissues, making it compatible with a number of spatially resolved downstream omics applications. Here, we provide a detailed protocol for LCM coupled to ATAC-seq (LCM-ATAC-seq) for the spatial analysis of chromatin landscape based on the method published by Carraro et al. [...]

Insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS) is a master regulator of metabolism, stress resilience, and cell homeostasis in multicellular organisms. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, DAF-2 regulates dauer diapause, animal growth, and lifespan extension in a DAF-16/FOXO-dependent manner. [...]

Hippocampal subfields differentially develop and age, and they vary in vulnerability to neurodegenerative diseases. Innovation in high-resolution imaging has accelerated clinical research on human hippocampal subfields, but substantial differences in segmentation protocols impede comparisons of results across laboratories. [...]

Major depressive disorder is a prevalent and debilitating mental health condition contributing to a growing global burden. Late-life depression (LLD), affecting individuals over 60 years of age, is further associated with elevated risks for cardiovascular diseases, cognitive decline, and dementia. [...]

The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease neuropathological changes (ADNCs), the leading cause of cognitive impairment, remains uncertain. Recent blood-based biomarkers enable scalable assessment of ADNCs1. [...]