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Young Adults with a Parent with Dementia Show Early Abnormalities in Brain Activity and Brain Volume in the Hippocampus: A Matched Case-Control Study (2022)
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McDonough, I. M., Mayhugh, C., Moore, M. K., Brasfield, M. B., Letang, S. K., Madan, C. R., & Allen, R. S. (2022). Young Adults with a Parent with Dementia Show Early Abnormalities in Brain Activity and Brain Volume in the Hippocampus: A Matched Case-Control Study. Brain Sciences, 12(4), Article 496. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040496

Having a parent with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias confers a risk for developing these types of neurocognitive disorders in old age, but the mechanisms underlying this risk are understudied. Although the hippocampus is often one of t... Read More about Young Adults with a Parent with Dementia Show Early Abnormalities in Brain Activity and Brain Volume in the Hippocampus: A Matched Case-Control Study.

Cortical complexity estimation using fractal dimension: A systematic review of the literature on clinical and nonclinical samples (2022)
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Meregalli, V., Alberti, F., Madan, C. R., Meneguzzo, P., Miola, A., Trevisan, N., …Collantoni, E. (2022). Cortical complexity estimation using fractal dimension: A systematic review of the literature on clinical and nonclinical samples. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(6), 1547-1583. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15631

Fractal geometry has recently been proposed as a useful tool for characterizing the complexity of the brain cortex, which is likely to derive from the recurrence of sulci–gyri convolution patterns. The index used to describe the cortical complexity i... Read More about Cortical complexity estimation using fractal dimension: A systematic review of the literature on clinical and nonclinical samples.

Imagining emotional events benefits future-oriented decisions (2022)
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Ballance, B. C., Tuen, Y. J., Petrucci, A. S., Orwig, W., Safi, O. K., Madan, C. R., & Palombo, D. J. (2022). Imagining emotional events benefits future-oriented decisions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(12), 2332–2348. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221086637

How does imagining future events—whether positive or negative—influence our choices in the present? Prior work has shown the simulation of hypothetical future events, dubbed episodic future thinking, can alter the propensity to engage in delay discou... Read More about Imagining emotional events benefits future-oriented decisions.

Science of Learning Strategy Series: Article 3, Interleaving (2022)
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Van Hoof, T., Sumeracki, M., & Madan, C. (2022). Science of Learning Strategy Series: Article 3, Interleaving. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 42(4), 265-268. https://doi.org/10.1097/CEH.0000000000000418

Interleaving is an evidence-based, learning-science strategy that is relevant to the planning and implementation of continuing professional development (CPD). Mixing related but different areas of study forces the brain to reconcile the relationship... Read More about Science of Learning Strategy Series: Article 3, Interleaving.

Long-Term Connectome Analysis Reveals Reshaping of Visual, Spatial Networks in a Model With Vascular Dementia Features (2022)
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Hall, G. R., Boehm-Sturm, P., Dirnagl, U., Finke, C., Foddis, M., Harms, C., …Farr, T. D. (2022). Long-Term Connectome Analysis Reveals Reshaping of Visual, Spatial Networks in a Model With Vascular Dementia Features. Stroke, 53(5), 1735-1745. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.036997

Background: Connectome analysis of neuroimaging data is a rapidly expanding field that offers the potential to diagnose, characterize, and predict neurological disease. Animal models provide insight into biological mechanisms that underpin disease, b... Read More about Long-Term Connectome Analysis Reveals Reshaping of Visual, Spatial Networks in a Model With Vascular Dementia Features.

Investigating cognitive factors and diagnostic error in a presentation of complicated multisystem disease (2021)
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Thompson, B., Madan, C. R., & Patel, R. (2022). Investigating cognitive factors and diagnostic error in a presentation of complicated multisystem disease. Diagnosis, 9(2), 199-206. https://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2021-0072

Objectives: To use a case review approach for investigating the types of cognitive error identifiable following a complicated patient admission with a multisystem disorder in an acute care setting where diagnosis was difficult and delayed. Methods: A... Read More about Investigating cognitive factors and diagnostic error in a presentation of complicated multisystem disease.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Yu, Z., Kausel, L., Boncompte, G., Lanfranco, R. C., Oxner, M., …Chapman, P. (2021). “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures. Perception, 50(12), 1027-1055. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211055983

The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

Toward next-generation primate neuroscience: A collaboration-based strategic plan for integrative neuroimaging (2021)
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PRIMatE Data and Resource Exchange (PRIME-DRE) Global Collaboration Workshop and Consortium, Milham, M., Petkov, C., Belin, P., Ben Hamed, S., Evrard, H., …Zuo, Z. (2022). Toward next-generation primate neuroscience: A collaboration-based strategic plan for integrative neuroimaging. Neuron, 110(1), 16-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.10.015

Open science initiatives are creating opportunities to increase research coordination and impact in nonhuman primate (NHP) imaging. The PRIMatE Data and Resource Exchange community recently developed a collaboration-based strategic plan to advance NH... Read More about Toward next-generation primate neuroscience: A collaboration-based strategic plan for integrative neuroimaging.

How Does Caffeine Influence Memory? Drug, Experimental, and Demographic Factors (2021)
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Zhang, R. C., & Madan, C. R. (2021). How Does Caffeine Influence Memory? Drug, Experimental, and Demographic Factors. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 525-538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.033

Caffeine is a widely used nootropic drug, but its effects on memory in healthy participants have not been sufficiently evaluated. Here we review evidence of the effects of caffeine on different types of memory, and the associated drug, experimental,... Read More about How Does Caffeine Influence Memory? Drug, Experimental, and Demographic Factors.

How emotion influences the details recalled in autobiographical memory (2021)
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Wardell, V., Madan, C. R., Jameson, T. J., Cocquyt, C., Checknita, K., Liu, H., & Palombo, D. J. (2021). How emotion influences the details recalled in autobiographical memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(6), 1454-1465. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3877

A wealth of research suggests that emotion enhances memory. Yet, this enhancement is not uniform. While some theories posit that emotion enhances memory for sensory/perceptual information, such an enhancement has not been observed in mnemonic detail... Read More about How emotion influences the details recalled in autobiographical memory.

Transfer of negative valence in an episodic memory task (2021)
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Palombo, D. J., Elizur, L., Tuen, Y. J., Te, A. A., & Madan, C. R. (2021). Transfer of negative valence in an episodic memory task. Cognition, 217, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104874

Emotion can color what we perceive and subsequently remember in myriad ways. Indeed, it is well established that emotion enhances some aspects of memory, while impairing others. For example, a number of recent episodic memory studies show that emotio... Read More about Transfer of negative valence in an episodic memory task.

Sulcal characteristics patterns and gyrification gradient at different stages of Anorexia Nervosa: a structural MRI evaluation (2021)
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Collantoni, E., Madan, C. R., Meregalli, V., Meneguzzo, P., Marzola, E., Panero, M., …Favaro, A. (2021). Sulcal characteristics patterns and gyrification gradient at different stages of Anorexia Nervosa: a structural MRI evaluation. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 316, Article 111350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2021.111350

Previous research evidenced alterations of different cortical parameters in patients with acute Anorexia Nervosa (AN), but no study to date investigated the morphology of individual sulci and their relationship with other structural indices. Our stud... Read More about Sulcal characteristics patterns and gyrification gradient at different stages of Anorexia Nervosa: a structural MRI evaluation.

Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Madan, C., Derrfuss, J., Chapman, P., & Groeger, J. (2021). Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications. Consciousness and Cognition, 94, Article 103172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103172

In this manuscript we review a seminal debate related to subliminality and concerning the relationship of consciousness, unconsciousness, and perception. We present the methodological implementations that contemporary psychology introduced to explore... Read More about Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications.

A brief primer on the PhD supervision relationship (2021)
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Madan, C. R. (2021). A brief primer on the PhD supervision relationship. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(4), 5229-5234. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15396

Becoming a successful academic and securing a principal investigator (PI) position at a research-intensive university requires many distinct skills. Beyond some form of technical skills and domain-specific knowledge, some of these skills include time... Read More about A brief primer on the PhD supervision relationship.

Exploring the Facets of Emotional Episodic Memory: Remembering 'What', 'When', and 'Which' (2021)
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Palombo, D. J., Te, A. A., Checknita, K. J., & Madan, C. R. (2021). Exploring the Facets of Emotional Episodic Memory: Remembering 'What', 'When', and 'Which'. Psychological Science, 32(7), 1104-1114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797621991548

Our memories can differ in quality from one event to the next and emotion is one important explanatory factor. Still, the manner in which emotion impacts episodic memory is complex: Whereas emotion enhances some aspects of episodic memory—particularl... Read More about Exploring the Facets of Emotional Episodic Memory: Remembering 'What', 'When', and 'Which'.

Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis (2021)
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Schweinsberg, M., Feldman, M., Staub, N., van den Akker, O. R., van Aert, R. C., Van Assen, M. A. L. M., …Madan, C. R. (2021). Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 165, 228-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2021.02.003

In this crowdsourced initiative, independent analysts used the same dataset to test two hypotheses regarding the effects of scientists’ gender and professional status on verbosity during group meetings. Not only the analytic approach but also the ope... Read More about Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis.

T2 heterogeneity as an in vivo marker of microstructural integrity in medial temporal lobe subfields in ageing and mild cognitive impairment (2021)
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Wearn, A. R., Nurdal, V., Saunders-Jennings, E., Knight, M. J., Madan, C. R., Fallon, S., …Coulthard, E. J. (2021). T2 heterogeneity as an in vivo marker of microstructural integrity in medial temporal lobe subfields in ageing and mild cognitive impairment. NeuroImage, 238, Article 118214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118214

A better understanding of early brain changes that precede loss of independence in diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD) is critical for development of disease-modifying therapies. Quantitative MRI, such as T2 relaxometry, can identify microstructur... Read More about T2 heterogeneity as an in vivo marker of microstructural integrity in medial temporal lobe subfields in ageing and mild cognitive impairment.

Beyond volumetry: Considering age-related changes in brain shape complexity using fractal dimensionality (2021)
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Madan, C. R. (2021). Beyond volumetry: Considering age-related changes in brain shape complexity using fractal dimensionality. Aging Brain, 1, Article 100016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbas.2021.100016

Gray matter volume for cortical, subcortical, and ventricles all vary with age. However, these volumetric changes do not happen on their own, there are also age-related changes in cortical folding and other measures of brain shape. Fractal dimensiona... Read More about Beyond volumetry: Considering age-related changes in brain shape complexity using fractal dimensionality.