Purpose The endocannabinoid system plays a regulatory role in a number of physiological
functions, including motor control but also mood, emotion, and cognition. A number of …

Abstract Theory of mind (ToM) refers to the ability to attribute mental states to others. Behavioral
variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized …

Many Huntington disease (HD) mutation carriers already have cognitive and psychiatric
symptoms in the premanifest (premotor) phase of the disease (pre-HD), but the molecular …

Psychological construction models of emotion state that emotions are variable concepts
constructed by fundamental psychological processes, whereas according to basic emotion …

The human amygdala is considered a key region for successful emotion recognition. We
recently reported that temporal lobe surgery (TLS), including resection of the amygdala, does …

Humans with amygdalar lesions show proportional reductions of the emotional response to
facial expressions in the fusiform face area as well as deficits in emotion recognition from …

Deficits in face processing have been described in the behavioral variant of fronto-temporal
dementia (bvFTD), primarily regarding the recognition of facial expressions. Less is known …

The social brain hypothesis posits that a disproportionate encephalization in primates
enabled to adapt behavior to a social context. Also, it has been proposed that phylogenetically …

Antisense oligonucleotides (AONs) can interfere with mRNA processing through RNase H–mediated
degradation, translational arrest, or modulation of splicing. The antisense approach …

Background The specific skipping of an exon, induced by antisense oligonucleotides (AON)
during splicing, has shown to be a promising therapeutic approach for Duchenne muscular …