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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Georgy A Semenov, Benjamin R Sonnenberg, Carrie L Branch, Virginia K Heinen, Joseph F Welklin, Sara R Padula, Ajay M Patel, Eli S Bridge, Vladimir V Pravosudov, Scott A Taylor
Substantial progress has been made in understanding the genetic architecture of phenotypes involved in a variety of evolutionary processes. Behavioral genetics remains, however, among the least understood. We explore the genetic architecture of spatial cognitive abilities in a wild passerine bird, the mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli). Mountain chickadees cache thousands of seeds in the fall and require specialized spatial memory to recover these caches throughout the winter. We previously showed that variation in spatial cognition has a direct effect on fitness and has a genetic basis...
April 15, 2024: Current Biology: CB
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REVIEW
Corinna Börner-Schröder, Kristina Huß, Sahra Lense, Julie Pompignoli, Matthias F Lechner, Maike Marx, Nico Sollmann, Florian Heinen, Michaela Bonfert
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2024: MMW Fortschritte der Medizin
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leonie Grosse, Julian F Schnabel, Corinna Börner-Schröder, Malina A Späh, Anne C Meuche, Nico Sollmann, Ute Breuer, Birgit Warken, Matthias Hösl, Florian Heinen, Steffen Berweck, Sebastian A Schröder, Michaela V Bonfert
Background : For children and adolescents affected by bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (BSCP), non-invasive neurostimulation with repetitive neuromuscular magnetic stimulation (rNMS) combined with physical exercises, conceptualized as functional rNMS (frNMS), represents a novel treatment approach. Methods : In this open-label study, six children and two adolescents (10.4 ± 2.5 years) with BSCP received a frNMS intervention targeting the gluteal muscles (12 sessions within 3 weeks). Results : In 77.1% of the sessions, no side effects were reported...
October 31, 2023: Children
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Corinna Börner-Schröder, Magdalena Lang, Giada Urban, Erik Zaidenstadt, Jacob Staisch, Ari Hauser, Iris Hannibal, Kristina Huß, Birgit Klose, Matthias F Lechner, Nico Sollmann, Mirjam N Landgraf, Florian Heinen, Michaela V Bonfert
Migraine has a relevant impact on pediatric health. Non-pharmacological modalities for its management are urgently needed. This study assessed the safety, feasibility, acceptance, and efficacy of repetitive neuromuscular magnetic stimulation (rNMS) in pediatric migraine. A total of 13 patients with migraine, ≥6 headache days during baseline, and ≥1 myofascial trigger point in the upper trapezius muscles (UTM) received six rNMS sessions within 3 weeks. Headache frequency, intensity, and medication intake were monitored using headache calendars; headache-related impairment and quality of life were measured using PedMIDAS and KINDL questionnaires...
October 30, 2023: Children
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leonie Grosse, Anne C Meuche, Barbara Parzefall, Corinna Börner, Julian F Schnabel, Malina A Späh, Pia Klug, Nico Sollmann, Luisa Klich, Matthias Hösl, Florian Heinen, Steffen Berweck, Sebastian A Schröder, Michaela V Bonfert
Non-invasive neurostimulation as an adjunctive intervention to task-specific motor training is an approach to foster motor performance in patients affected by upper motor neuron syndrome (UMNS). Here, we present first-line data of repetitive neuromuscular magnetic stimulation (rNMS) in combination with personalized task-specific physical exercises targeting the tibialis anterior muscle to improve ankle dorsiflexion (functional rNMS (frNMS)). The main objective of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility in terms of adherence to frNMS, safety and practicability of frNMS, and satisfaction with frNMS...
September 22, 2023: Children
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carrie L Branch, Joseph F Welklin, Benjamin R Sonnenberg, Lauren M Benedict, Virginia K Heinen, Angela M Pitera, Eli S Bridge, Vladimir V Pravosudov
While researchers have investigated mating decisions for decades, gaps remain in our understanding of how behaviour influences social mate choice. We compared spatial cognitive performance and food caching propensity within social pairs of mountain chickadees inhabiting differentially harsh winter climates to understand how these measures contribute to social mate choice. Chickadees rely on specialized spatial cognitive abilities to recover food stores and survive harsh winters, and females can discriminate among males with varying spatial cognition...
September 13, 2023: Proceedings. Biological Sciences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gerit Bethke, Yadong Huang, Goetz Hensel, Shane Heinen, Chaochih Liu, Skylar R Wyant, Xin Li, Maureen B Quin, Susan McCormick, Peter L Morrell, Yanhong Dong, Jochen Kumlehn, Silvio Salvi, Franz Berthiller, Gary J Muehlbauer
Fusarium head blight (FHB) of barley (Hordeum vulgare) causes yield losses and accumulation of trichothecene mycotoxins (e.g., deoxynivalenol (DON)) in grains. Glucosylation of DON to the nontoxic DON-3-O-glucoside (D3G) is catalyzed by UDP-glucosyltransferases (UGTs), such as barley UGT13248. We explored the natural diversity of UGT13248 in 496 barley accessions and showed that all carried potential functional alleles of UGT13248, as no genotypes showed strongly increased seedling sensitivity to DON. From a TILLING population, we identified two mutant alleles (T368I and H369Y) that, based on protein modeling, likely affect the UDP-glucose binding of UGT13248...
August 23, 2023: Plant Physiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leonie Grosse, Malina A Späh, Corinna Börner, Julian F Schnabel, Anne C Meuche, Barbara Parzefall, Ute Breuer, Birgit Warken, Alexandra Sitzberger, Matthias Hösl, Florian Heinen, Steffen Berweck, Sebastian A Schröder, Michaela V Bonfert
BACKGROUND: Impaired selective motor control, weakness and spasticity represent the key characteristics of motor disability in the context of bilateral spastic cerebral palsy. Independent walking ability is an important goal and training of the gluteal muscles can improve endurance and gait stability. Combining conventional physical excercises with a neuromodulatory, non-invasive technique like repetitive neuromuscular magnetic stimulation probably enhances effects of the treatment. This prospective study aimed to assess the clinical effects of repetitive neuromuscular magnetic stimulation in combination with a personalized functional physical training offered to children and adolescents with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy...
2023: Frontiers in Neurology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lauren M Benedict, Virginia K Heinen, Joseph F Welklin, Benjamin R Sonnenberg, Lauren E Whitenack, Eli S Bridge, Vladimir V Pravosudov
The use of abstract rules in behavioral decisions is considered evidence of executive functions associated with higher-level cognition. Laboratory studies across taxa have shown that animals may be capable of learning abstract concepts, such as the relationships between items, but often use simpler cognitive abilities to solve tasks. Little is known about whether or how animals learn and use abstract rules in natural environments. Here, we tested whether wild, food-caching mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli) could learn an abstract rule in a spatial-temporal task in which the location of a food reward rotated daily around an 8-feeder square spatial array for up to 34 days...
June 29, 2023: Current Biology: CB
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Virginia K Heinen, Angela M Pitera, Benjamin R Sonnenberg, Carrie L Branch, Lauren M Benedict, Joseph F Welklin, Lauren E Whitenack, Eli S Bridge, Vladimir V Pravosudov
Social animals may use alternative strategies when foraging, with producer-scrounger being one stable dichotomy of strategies. While 'producers' search and discover new food sources, 'scroungers' obtain food discovered by producers. Previous work suggests that differences in cognitive abilities may influence tendencies toward being either a producer or a scrounger, but scrounging behaviour in the context of specialized cognitive abilities is less understood. We investigated whether food-caching mountain chickadees, which rely on spatial cognition to retrieve food caches, engage in scrounging when learning a spatial task...
July 12, 2023: Proceedings. Biological Sciences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lauren E Whitenack, Joseph F Welklin, Carrie L Branch, Benjamin R Sonnenberg, Angela M Pitera, Dovid Y Kozlovsky, Lauren M Benedict, Virginia K Heinen, Vladimir V Pravosudov
Animals use climate-related environmental cues to fine-tune breeding timing and investment to match peak food availability. In birds, spring temperature is a commonly documented cue used to initiate breeding, but with global climate change, organisms are experiencing both directional changes in ambient temperatures and extreme year-to-year precipitation fluctuations. Montane environments exhibit complex climate patterns where temperatures and precipitation change along elevational gradients, and where exacerbated annual variation in precipitation has resulted in extreme swings between heavy snow and drought...
June 2023: Royal Society Open Science
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MULTICENTER STUDY
Corinna Grasemann, Jakob Höppner, Peter Burgard, Michael M Schündeln, Nora Matar, Gabriele Müller, Heiko Krude, Reinhard Berner, Min Ae Lee-Kirsch, Fabian Hauck, Kerstin Wainwright, Sylvana Baumgarten, Janet Atinga, Jens J Bauer, Eva Manka, Julia Körholz, Cordula Kiewert, André Heinen, Tanita Kretschmer, Tobias Kurth, Janna Mittnacht, Christoph Schramm, Christoph Klein, Holm Graessner, Olaf Hiort, Ania C Muntau, Annette Grüters, Georg F Hoffmann, Daniela Choukair
PURPOSE: The transition process from paediatric/adolescent to adult medical care settings is of utmost importance for the future health of adolescents with chronic diseases and poses even more difficulties in the context of rare diseases (RDs). Paediatric care teams are challenged to deliver adolescent-appropriate information and structures. Here we present a structured transition pathway which is patient-focused and adoptable for different RDs. METHODS: The transition pathway for adolescents 16 years and older was developed and implemented as part of a multi-centre study in 10 university hospitals in Germany...
April 25, 2023: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Philine Rojczyk, Johanna Seitz-Holland, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Valerie J Sydnor, Cara L Kim, Lisa F Umminger, Tim L T Wiegand, Jeffrey P Guenette, Fan Zhang, Yogesh Rathi, Sylvain Bouix, Ofer Pasternak, Catherine B Fortier, David Salat, Sidney R Hinds, Florian Heinen, Lauren J O'Donnell, William P Milberg, Regina E McGlinchey, Martha E Shenton, Inga K Koerte
Sleep disturbances are strongly associated with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD and mTBI have been linked to alterations in white matter (WM) microstructure, but whether poor sleep quality has a compounding effect on WM remains largely unknown. We evaluated sleep and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data from 180 male post-9/11 veterans diagnosed with (1) PTSD ( n = 38), (2) mTBI ( n = 25), (3) comorbid PTSD+mTBI ( n = 94), and (4) a control group with neither PTSD nor mTBI ( n = 23)...
March 6, 2023: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Julia H Heinen, F B Vincent Florens, Cláudia Baider, Julian P Hume, W Daniel Kissling, Robert J Whittaker, Carsten Rahbek, Michael K Borregaard
Insular communities are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic extinctions and introductions. Changes in composition of island frugivore communities may affect seed dispersal within the native plant community, risking ecological shifts and ultimately co-extinction cascades. Introduced species could potentially mitigate these risks by replacing ecological functions of extinct species, but conclusive evidence is lacking. Here, we investigate changes in plant-frugivore interactions involving frugivorous birds, mammals and reptiles in Mauritius, an oceanic island with an exceptionally well-specified frugivore community and well-described species introduction history...
February 23, 2023: Nature Communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nabil V Sayour, Gábor B Brenner, András Makkos, Bernadett Kiss, Csenger Kovácsházi, Tamás G Gergely, Sverre Groever Aukrust, Huimin Tian, Viktória Zenkl, Kamilla Gömöri, Tamara Szabados, Péter Bencsik, Andre Heinen, Rainer Schulz, Gary F Baxter, Coert J Zuurbier, Zoltán Vokó, Péter Ferdinandy, Zoltán Giricz
AIMS: Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is a robust cardioprotective intervention in preclinical studies. To establish a working and efficacious RIPC protocol in our laboratories, we performed randomized, blinded in vivo studies in three study centres in rats, with various RIPC protocols. To verify that our experimental settings are in good alignment with in vivo rat studies showing cardioprotection by limb RIPC, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis. In addition, we investigated the importance of different study parameters...
January 31, 2023: Cardiovascular Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shimon Rochkind, Stefano Ferraresi, Natalia Denisova, Debora Garozzo, Christian Heinen, Ridvan Alimehmeti, Crescenzo Capone, Damiano G Barone, Anna Zdunczyk, Maria T Pedro, Gregor Antoniadis, Radek Kaiser, Annie Dubuisson, Willem Pondaag, Thomas Kretschmer, Lukas Rasulic, Nora F Dengler
BACKGROUND: In the first part of this report, the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies' section of peripheral nerve surgery presented a systematic literature review and consensus statements on anatomy, classification, and diagnosis of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) along with a subclassification system of neurogenic TOS (nTOS). Because of the lack of level 1 evidence, especially regarding the management of nTOS, we now add a consensus statement on nTOS treatment among experienced neurosurgeons...
February 1, 2023: Neurosurgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nora F Dengler, Christoph Scholz, Jürgen Beck, Anne-Kathrin Uerschels, Ullrich Sure, Christian Scheller, Christian Strauss, Daniel Martin, Gabriele Schackert, Christian Heinen, Johannes Woitzik, Anna Lawson McLean, Steffen K Rosahl, Jonas Kolbenschlag, Johannes Heinzel, Martin Schuhmann, Marco Soares Tatagiba, Waltraud Kleist-Welch Guerra, Henry W S Schroeder, Ignazio Gaspare Vetrano, Rezvan Ahmadi, Andreas Unterberg, Jennifer Reinsch, Anna Zdunczyk, Meike Unteroberdoerster, Peter Vajkoczy, Sarah Wehner, Michael Becker, Cordula Matthies, Jose Pérez-Tejón, Annie Dubuisson, Damiano G Barrone, Rikin Trivedi, Crescenzo Capone, Stefano Ferraresi, Jakob Kraschl, Thomas Kretschmer, Thomas Dombert, Frank Staub, Michael Ronellenfitsch, Gerhard Marquardt, Vincent Prinz, Marcus Czabanka, Anne Carolus, Veit Braun, Ralph König, Gregor Antoniadis, Christian Rainer Wirtz, Lukas Rasulic, Maria Teresa Pedro
AIM: Peripheral nerve tumors (PNT) are rare lesions. To date, no systematic multicenter studies on epidemiology, clinical symptoms, treatment strategies and outcomes, genetic and histopathologic features, as well as imaging characteristics of PNT were published. The main goal of our PNT Registry is the systematic multicenter investigation to improve our understanding of PNT and to assist future interventional studies in establishing hypotheses, determining potential endpoints, and assessing treatment efficacy...
October 8, 2022: Neurological Research
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REVIEW
Jayne V Woodside, Qi Sun, Baukje de Roos, Eric B Rimm, Frank B Hu, Mirjam M Heinen, Claire T McEvoy, Carmen Piernas, Pauline F D Scheelbeek, Jonathan Rushton, Hannah Ensaff, Sarah F Brennan, Lorraine Brennan
Dietary patterns (DP) rich in plant foods are associated with improved health and reduced non-communicable disease risk. In October 2021, the Nutrition Society hosted a member-led conference, held online over 2 half days, exploring the latest research findings examining plant-rich DP and health. The aim of the present paper is to summarise the content of the conference and synopses of the individual speaker presentations are included. Topics included epidemiological analysis of plant-rich DP and health outcomes, the effects of dietary interventions which have increased fruit and vegetable (FV) intake on a range of health outcomes, how adherence to plant-rich DP is assessed, the use of biomarkers to assess FV intake and a consideration of how modifying behaviour towards increased FV intake could impact environmental outcomes, planetary health and food systems...
December 2022: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Corinna Börner, Tabea Renner, Florian Trepte-Freisleder, Giada Urban, Paul Schandelmaier, Magdalena Lang, Matthias F Lechner, Helene Koenig, Birgit Klose, Lucia Albers, Sandro M Krieg, Thomas Baum, Florian Heinen, Mirjam N Landgraf, Nico Sollmann, Michaela V Bonfert
Background: Repetitive neuromuscular magnetic stimulation (rNMS) of the trapezius muscles showed beneficial effects in preventing episodic migraine. However, clinical characteristics that predict a favorable response to rNMS are unknown. The objective of this analysis is to identify such predictors. Methods: Thirty participants with a diagnosis of episodic migraine (mean age: 24.8 ± 4.0 years, 29 females), who were prospectively enrolled in two non-sham-controlled studies evaluating the effects of rNMS were analyzed...
2022: Frontiers in Neurology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Corinna Börner, Jacob Staisch, Magdalena Lang, Ari Hauser, Iris Hannibal, Kristina Huß, Birgit Klose, Matthias F Lechner, Nico Sollmann, Florian Heinen, Mirjam N Landgraf, Michaela V Bonfert
Repetitive neuromuscular magnetic stimulation (rNMS) for pediatric headache disorders is feasible, safe, and alleviates headache symptoms. This study assesses muscular effects and factors affecting response to rNMS. A retrospective chart review included children with headaches receiving six rNMS sessions targeting the upper trapezius muscles. Pressure pain thresholds (PPT) were measured before and after rNMS, and at 3-month follow-up (FU). Mean headache frequency, duration, and intensity within the last 3 months were documented...
July 16, 2022: Brain Sciences
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