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Alterations in the microstructure of white matter in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome measured using tract-based spatial statistics and probabilistic tractography (2018)
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Sigurdsson, H. P., Pépés, S. E., Jackson, G. M., Draper, A., Morgan, P. S., & Jackson, S. R. (2018). Alterations in the microstructure of white matter in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome measured using tract-based spatial statistics and probabilistic tractography. Cortex, 104, 75-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.04.004

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by repetitive and intermittent motor and vocal tics. TS is thought to reflect fronto-striatal dysfunction and the aetiology of the disorder has been linked to widespread alteration... Read More about Alterations in the microstructure of white matter in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome measured using tract-based spatial statistics and probabilistic tractography.

A Neural Basis for Contagious Yawning (2017)
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Brown, B. J., Kim, S., Saunders, H., Bachmann, C., Thompson, J., Ropar, D., …Jackson, G. M. (2017). A Neural Basis for Contagious Yawning. Current Biology, 27(17), 2713-2717.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.062

Contagious yawning, in which yawning is triggered involuntarily when we observe another person yawn, is a common form of echophenomena—the automatic imitation of another’s words (echolalia) or actions (echopraxia) [1]. The neural basis for echophenom... Read More about A Neural Basis for Contagious Yawning.

Activation induced changes in GABA: functional MRS at 7 T with MEGA-sLASER (2017)
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Chen, C., Sigurdsson, H. P., Pépés, S. E., Auer, D. P., Morris, P. G., Morgan, P. S., …Jackson, S. R. (2017). Activation induced changes in GABA: functional MRS at 7 T with MEGA-sLASER. NeuroImage, 156, 207-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.05.044

Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (fMRS) has been used to assess the dynamic metabolic responses of the brain to a physiological stimulus non-invasively. However, only limited information on the dynamic functional response of γ-aminobutyric... Read More about Activation induced changes in GABA: functional MRS at 7 T with MEGA-sLASER.

Optic ataxia and the dorsal visual steam re-visited: impairment in bimanual haptic matching performed without vision (2017)
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Jackson, S. R., Condon, L., Newport, R., Pears, S., Husain, M., Bajaj, N., & O'Donoghue, M. O. (in press). Optic ataxia and the dorsal visual steam re-visited: impairment in bimanual haptic matching performed without vision. Cortex, 98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.03.023

The ‘two visual systems’ account proposed by Milner and Goodale (1992) argued that visual perception and the visual control of action depend upon functionally distinct and anatomically separable brain systems: a ventral stream of visual processing th... Read More about Optic ataxia and the dorsal visual steam re-visited: impairment in bimanual haptic matching performed without vision.

Comparing GABA-­dependent physiological measures of inhibition with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurement of GABA using ultra-­high-­field MRI (2017)
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Dyke, K., Pépés, S. E., Chen, C., Kim, S., Sigurdsson, H. P., Draper, A., …Jackson, S. R. (2017). Comparing GABA-­dependent physiological measures of inhibition with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurement of GABA using ultra-­high-­field MRI. NeuroImage, 152, 360-370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.011

Imbalances in glutamatergic (excitatory) and GABA (inhibitory) signalling within key brain networks are thought to underlie many brain and mental health disorders, and for this reason there is considerable interest in investigating how individual var... Read More about Comparing GABA-­dependent physiological measures of inhibition with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurement of GABA using ultra-­high-­field MRI.

Challenging thermodynamics: hydrogenation of benzene to 1,3- cyclohexadiene by Ru@Pt nanoparticles (2016)
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Weilhard, A., Abarca, G. A., Viscardi, J., Prechtl, M. H., Scholten, J. D., Bernandi, F., …Dupont, J. (in press). Challenging thermodynamics: hydrogenation of benzene to 1,3- cyclohexadiene by Ru@Pt nanoparticles. ChemCatChem, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201601196

Since the earliest reports on catalytic benzene hydrogenation, 1,3-cyclohexadiene and cyclohexene have been proposed as key intermediates. However, the former has never been obtained with remarkable selectivity. Herein we report the first partial hyd... Read More about Challenging thermodynamics: hydrogenation of benzene to 1,3- cyclohexadiene by Ru@Pt nanoparticles.

Intra-Subject Consistency and Reliability of Response Following 2?mA Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (2016)
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Dyke, K., Kim, S., Jackson, G. M., & Jackson, S. R. (2016). Intra-Subject Consistency and Reliability of Response Following 2?mA Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. Brain Stimulation, 9(6), 819-825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2016.06.052

Background Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a popular non-invasive brain stimulation technique that has been shown to influence cortical excitability. While polarity specific effects have often been reported, this is not always th... Read More about Intra-Subject Consistency and Reliability of Response Following 2?mA Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.

Practitioner review: Treatments for Tourette syndrome in children and young people: a systematic review (2016)
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Whittington, C., Pennant, M., Kendall, T., Glazebrook, C., Trayner, P., Groom, M. J., …Hollis, C. (in press). Practitioner review: Treatments for Tourette syndrome in children and young people: a systematic review. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57(9), 988-1004. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12556

Background: Tourette syndrome (TS) and chronic tic disorder (CTD) affect 1–2% of children and young people, but the most effective treatment is unclear. To establish the current evidence base, we conducted a systematic review of interventions for ch... Read More about Practitioner review: Treatments for Tourette syndrome in children and young people: a systematic review.

Hybrid tantalum oxide nanoparticles from the hydrolysis of imidazolium tantalate ionic liquids: efficient catalysts for hydrogen generation from ethanol/water solutions (2016)
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Souza, V. S., Scholten, J. D., Weibel, D. E., Eberhardt, D., Baptista, D. L., Teixeira, S. R., & Dupont, J. (2016). Hybrid tantalum oxide nanoparticles from the hydrolysis of imidazolium tantalate ionic liquids: efficient catalysts for hydrogen generation from ethanol/water solutions. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TA02114J

The reaction of equimolar amounts of 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (BMI·Cl) or 1-n-decyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (DMI·Cl) with TaCl5 affords imidazolium tantalate ionic liquids (ILs) BMI·TaCl61 and DMI·TaCl62. The hydrolysis of ILs 1 an... Read More about Hybrid tantalum oxide nanoparticles from the hydrolysis of imidazolium tantalate ionic liquids: efficient catalysts for hydrogen generation from ethanol/water solutions.

Premonitory urges are associated with decreased grey matter thickness within the insula and sensorimotor cortex in young people with Tourette syndrome (2016)
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Draper, A., Jackson, G. M., Morgan, P. S., & Jackson, S. R. (2016). Premonitory urges are associated with decreased grey matter thickness within the insula and sensorimotor cortex in young people with Tourette syndrome. Journal of Neuropsychology, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12089

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by vocal and motor tics and is associated with cortical–striatal–thalamic–cortical circuit (CSTC) dysfunction and hyperexcitability of cortical limbic and motor regions, which are though... Read More about Premonitory urges are associated with decreased grey matter thickness within the insula and sensorimotor cortex in young people with Tourette syndrome.

Effects of age on motor excitability measures from children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome (2016)
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Pépés, S. E., Draper, A., Jackson, G. M., & Jackson, S. R. (2016). Effects of age on motor excitability measures from children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 78-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2016.02.005

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterised by vocal and motor tics. It is associated with cortical–striatal–thalamic–cortical circuit [CSTC] dysfunction and hyper-excitability of cortical motor regions. TS follows a developmental... Read More about Effects of age on motor excitability measures from children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome.

Vertex Stimulation as a Control Site for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Concurrent TMS/fMRI Study (2015)
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Jung, J., Bungert, A., Bowtell, R., & Jackson, S. R. (2016). Vertex Stimulation as a Control Site for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Concurrent TMS/fMRI Study. Brain Stimulation, 9(1), 58-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2015.09.008

Background A common control condition for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies is to apply stimulation at the vertex. An assumption of vertex stimulation is that it has relatively little influence over on-going brain processes involved in... Read More about Vertex Stimulation as a Control Site for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Concurrent TMS/fMRI Study.

Enhanced saccadic control in young people with Tourette syndrome despite slowed pro-saccades (2015)
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Jung, J., Jackson, S. R., Nam, K., Hollis, C., & Jackson, G. M. (2015). Enhanced saccadic control in young people with Tourette syndrome despite slowed pro-saccades. Journal of Neuropsychology, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12044

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by motor and vocal tics. Tics are repetitive and uncontrolled behaviours that have been associated with basal ganglia dysfunction. We investigated saccadic eye movements in a group... Read More about Enhanced saccadic control in young people with Tourette syndrome despite slowed pro-saccades.

Increased GABA Contributes to Enhanced Control over Motor Excitability in Tourette Syndrome (2014)
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Stephenson, M., Morgan, P., Draper, A., Stephenson, M. C., Jackson, G., Pépés, S., …Jackson, S. (2014). Increased GABA Contributes to Enhanced Control over Motor Excitability in Tourette Syndrome. Current Biology, 24(19), 2343-2347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.038

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a developmental neurological disorder characterized by vocal and motor tics [1] and associated with cortical-striatal-thalamic-cortical circuit dysfunction [2, 3], hyperexcitability within cortical motor areas [4], and alter... Read More about Increased GABA Contributes to Enhanced Control over Motor Excitability in Tourette Syndrome.

tDCS-induced alterations in GABA concentration within primary motor cortex predict motor learning and motor memory: A 7T magnetic resonance spectroscopy study (2014)
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Kim, S., Stephenson, M. C., Morris, P. G., & Jackson, S. R. (2014). tDCS-induced alterations in GABA concentration within primary motor cortex predict motor learning and motor memory: A 7T magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. NeuroImage, 99, 237-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.05.070

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that alters cortical excitability in a polarity specific manner and has been shown to influence learning and memory. tDCS may have both on-line and after-eff... Read More about tDCS-induced alterations in GABA concentration within primary motor cortex predict motor learning and motor memory: A 7T magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

Motor excitability during movement preparation in Tourette syndrome (2013)
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Draper, A., Jude, L., Jackson, G. M., & Jackson, S. R. (2013). Motor excitability during movement preparation in Tourette syndrome. Journal of Neuropsychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12033

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the occurrence of motor and vocal tics. TS has been linked to the impaired operation of cortical-striatal-thalamic-cortical circuits that give rise to hyper-excitability of cort... Read More about Motor excitability during movement preparation in Tourette syndrome.

Compensatory Neural Reorganization in Tourette Syndrome (2011)
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Jackson, G., Jackson, S., Parkinson, A., Hollis, C., Jung, J., Ryan, S., & Morgan, P. (2011). Compensatory Neural Reorganization in Tourette Syndrome. Current Biology, 21(7), 580-585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.02.047

Children with neurological disorders may follow unique developmental trajectories whereby they undergo compensatory neuroplastic changes in brain structure and function that help them gain control over their symptoms [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. We used behav... Read More about Compensatory Neural Reorganization in Tourette Syndrome.