• openAccess   Bilingualism's Effects on Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Mild Cognitive Impairment 

      Marin-Marin, Lidón; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Aguirre, Naiara; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Costumero, Víctor Mary Ann Liebert (2021-01-21)
      Background: Bilingualism is considered a cognitive reserve (CR) factor, due to the delay in the onset of dementia in bilinguals compared with monolinguals. Two neural mechanisms have been suggested to underlie CR: neural ...
    • openAccess   Coffee consumption decreases the connectivity of the posterior Default Mode Network (DMN) at rest 

      Picó-Pérez, Maria; Magalhães, Ricardo; Esteves, Madalena; Vieira, Rita; Castanho, Teresa; Amorim, Liliana; Sousa, Mafalda; Coelho, Ana; Silva Moreira, Pedro; Cunha, Rodrigo A.; Sousa, Nuno Frontiers (2023-06-28)
      Habitual coffee consumers justify their life choices by arguing that they become more alert and increase motor and cognitive performance and efficiency; however, these subjective impressions still do not have a neurobiological ...