Volume 14 - Number 6 - 2023-11 - Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Volume 14, Issue 6 (November & December 2023)

The Antinociceptive Effects of Combined Treatment With Atorvastatin and Vitamin C in the Chronic Constriction Injury Model of Rats

P. 727-740

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2022.895.2

Abolfazl Abbaszadeh

, Najmeh Pirzadroozbahani

, Mahmood Reza Moradkhani

, Amin Hasanvand ^*

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Brain MRI Volumetric Assessment of Patients With Multiple Sclerosis: The Volume of Basal Ganglia, Thalamus, and Posterior Fossa

P. 741-752

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2023.1324.4

Sima Fallah Arzpeyma

, Sara Janeshin

, Niusheh Soofi Afshar

, Alia Saberi ^*

, Hamidreza Ghalyanchi Langroodi

, Mohammad Ebrahim Ghaffari

, Kamal AmirAshjei

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COVID-19 and the Brain: A Psychological and Resting-state Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagin (fMRI) Study of the Whole-brain Functional Connectivity

P. 753-772

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2021.1425.4

Mohammad Niroumand Sarvandani

, Javad Sheikhi Koohsar

, Raheleh Rafaiee

, Maryam Saeedi

, Seyedeh Masoumeh Seyedhosseini Tamijani

, Hamed Ghazvini

, Hossein Sheibani ^*

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Sensory Emotion in Words: Evidence From an Event-related Potential (ERP) Study in Light of the Emotioncy Model

P. 773-786

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2021.1870.1

Sahar Tabatabaee Farani

, Reza Pishghadam ^*

, Azin Khodaverdi

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Early MS Identification Using Non-linear Functional Connectivity and Graph-theoretic Measures of Cognitive Task-fMRI Data

P. 787-804

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2022.2034.4

Farzad Azarmi

, Ahmad Shalbaf ^*

, Seyedeh Naghmeh Miri Ashtiani

, Hamid Behnam

, Mohammad Reza Daliri

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Menthol Dissolved in Dimethyl Sulfoxide Protects Against Epileptiform Activity Induced by Pentylenetetrazol in Male Rats

P. 805-812

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2022.3025.1

Yousef Panahi ^*

, Mohammad Amin Monazzah

, Gholamreza Vafaei Saiah

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Co-exposure to Toluene and Noise Made Synergistic and Antagonistic Effects on Some Neurotoxic Parameters in New Zealand White Rabbits

P. 813-826

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2022.3301.1

Amirreza Abouee-Mehrizi

, Masoud Motalebi Kashani

, Yahya Rasoulzadeh ^*

, Ahmad Mehdipour

, Nafiseh Nasirzadeh

, Omid Shatouei-Gharenjeh

, Abbas Ebrahimi-Kalan

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Mapping the Cortical Representation of Paraspinal Muscles Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Optimized in People With Chronic Back Pain

P. 827-842

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2023.4419.1

Solaleh Saraiepour

, Sedigheh Kahrizi ^*

, Mojdeh Ghabaee

, Babak Bazrgari

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• Conventional transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) brain mapping is not optimal for patients with Chronic low back pain (CLBP).
• Paired-pulse TMS dramatically lessens the energy needed for brain mapping.
• Maximal voluntary contraction of back muscles facilitates TMS mapping.
• Anticipatory postural activity of back muscles enhances the efficacy of TMS mapping.
Plain Language Summary
hronic low back pain (CLBP) is a social, emotional, and economic burden and the leading cause of disability worldwide. Yet the etiology of the CLBP is unknown. The persistence of aberrant or antalgic movement patterns observed in people with CLBP has been suggested as a possible cause of pain chronification by inducing continuous damage to sensitive structures of the lumbar spine. It is well known that the brain is in charge of the production and planning of movements, so it is likely that abnormal movement patterns also stem from the abnormalities in the brain. However, until recently, human knowledge about the structure and function of the brain has been very limited. The invention of noninvasive and painless brain imaging and stimulating techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) during the last decades has augmented our knowledge about the structure and function of the brain. Modification in terms of shift, shrinkage, or expansion of areas of the brain devoted to movement control or sensation of the back muscles has been documented in CLBP via these techniques, which are argued to relate to pain chronification but need further clarification. Yet monitoring the course of CLBP via TMS, despite its many potentials, is challenging. This could be due to the reduced cortical drive to back muscles in CLBP patients and the small area devoted to control of back muscles in the brain in general that increases the brain threshold to TMS in people with CLBP. The aim of this study was to tailor an approach to make TMS more applicable for CLBP patients by reducing the threshold to TMS. This could be achieved by engaging back muscles in anticipatory postural activity in combination with maximal voluntary activation of these muscles, along with TMS paradigms that induce intracortical facilitation.

Conditioned Medium Derived From the Human Amniotic Membrane Prevents Brain Damage Against Cerebral Ischemia/Reperfusion in Subacute, Acute, and Chronic Phases in a Rat Model of Stroke

P. 843-856

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2023.5693.1

SeyyedMohammadTaghi Razavi-Toosi

, Yasin Asadi

, Nahid Aboutaleb

, Masoumeh Faezi ^*

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Alterations in Diffusion Tensor Imaging-derived Indices of Auditory Pathway-related Fiber Tracts in Children With Sensorineural Hearing Loss

P. 857-866

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2023.3593.2

Samira Sadeghinasab

, Ali Reza Eftekhari Moghadam

, Nader Saki

, Arash Bayat

, Ghasem Saki ^*

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Effectiveness of Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase/Pre-B Cell Colony-enhancing Factor/ Visfatin in preventing High Glucose-induced Neurotoxicity in an In-vitro Model of Diabetic Neuropathy

P. 867-878

‎ 10.32598/bcn.2021.2870.2

Sarvin Jahanbani

, Mehdi Khaksari

, Fatemeh Sadat Bitaraf

, Majid Rahmati

, Kobra Foroughi

, Asghar Shayannia ^*

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