The Neuroscience Chronicles

2021

Volume 2, Issue 1, p1-24

Articles published in this issue are Open Access and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY NC) where the readers can reuse, download, distribute the article in whole or part by mentioning proper credits to the authors.

Commentary Open Access

Effect of educational level on Alzheimer's disease-related biomarkers: Commentary

Hongyu Yang, Yue Wu, Zaohuo Cheng, Shouquan Gu

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive impairments that might be accompanied by declines in activities of daily living, neuropsychiatric disorders and a loss of motor function [1,2]. At present, the prevalence of dementia of Alzheimer’s type (DAT) is approximately 4% among elderly people [3]. With the increase in the aging the population, the number of individuals with DAT is still increasing.

Neurosci Chron, 2021, Volume 2, Issue 1, p1-3 | DOI: 10.46439/Neuroscience.2.006

Short Communication Open Access

Inhibition of 11β-HSD1, a key enzyme in the stress management, improves cognition by RL-118 drug treatment

Puigoriol-Illamola D, Vázquez S, Griñán-Ferré C, Pallàs M

In recent years, stress and stress-coping mechanisms constitute a growing public healthcare issue concerning modern society. Experiencing stress engenders a great complex mechanism named stress response, which consists of a rapid release of catecholamines by the sympathetic nervous system, followed by a slower response in which hormones, mainly glucocorticoids (GCs), are synthesized and released to the bloodstream.

Neurosci Chron, 2021, Volume 2, Issue 1, p4-8 | DOI: 10.46439/Neuroscience.2.007

Commentary Open Access

A commentary on telehealth and telemedicine in the COVID-19 era: A world of opportunities for the neurosurgeon

A. H. M. Ataullah, Sabrina Rahman, Md Nazmul Huda Ridoy, Nilyufar Turaeva, Ivan David Lozada-Martinez, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, Md Moshiur Rahman

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced unprecedented conditions and difficulties for the global delivery of healthcare services. In this situation, all the healthcare employees, including neurosurgeons are facing many complexities. Telemedicine has decreased the spread of infection between neurosurgeons and patients.

Neurosci Chron, 2021, Volume 2, Issue 1, p9-10 | DOI: 10.46439/Neuroscience.2.008

Review Article Open Access

Propriospinal neurons involved in coordination of the bladder and urethra

Sergei Karnup

Storage and periodic elimination of urine requires coordinated activity of the bladder and the urethral outlet. This coordination is provided by a complex neural control system in the brain and spinal cord. Experimental studies in animals show that urine storage is modulated by reflex mechanisms located in the sacral spinal cord, whereas urine release is mediated by pontine micturition center in the brainstem.

Neurosci Chron, 2021, Volume 2, Issue 1, p11-18 | DOI: 10.46439/Neuroscience.2.009

Commentary Open Access

Investigating putative psychoactive compounds using planarians as an animal model using the environmental place conditioning protocol

Brady J. Phelps

There is a seemingly endless list of compounds used by humans that may have psychoactive reinforcing properties underlying their repeated use; many have never been adequately studied. In a 2019 paper, the potential reinforcing properties of cotinine, a major nicotine metabolite, were investigated for the first time. To pursue this line of inquiry, cotinine was assessed using the planarian as an animal model in environmental place conditioning (EPC) also known as conditioned place preference (CPP).

Neurosci Chron, 2021, Volume 2, Issue 1, p19-24 | DOI: 10.46439/Neuroscience.2.010

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