Background Although the induction of behavioural unconsciousness during sleep and general
anaesthesia has been shown to involve overlapping brain mechanisms, sleep involves …

The past three decades have seen multiple reports of people with neurodegenerative disorders,
or other forms of changes in their brains, who also show putative changes in how they …

Amblyopia is characterised by visual deficits in both spatial vision and motion perception.
While the spatial deficits are thought to result from deficient processing at both low and higher …

Deutetrabenazine (DTBZ) is a US FDA-approved treatment for chorea in Huntington's disease.
The substitution of deuterium for hydrogen at specific positions imparts a longer half-life …

Our ability to explore our surroundings requires a combination of high-resolution vision and
frequent rotations of the visual axis toward objects of interest. Such gaze shifts are …

Recent psychophysical work has shown that performance on a direction discrimination task
decreases with increasing stimulus size, provided the stimulus is high in contrast. This …

Corollary discharge signals are found in the nervous systems of many animals, where they
serve a large variety of functions related to the integration of sensory and motor signals. In …

… Alby Richard is a neurologist and clinical assistant professor at Centre Hospitalier de l’Université
de Montréal. Paul Krack is chief physician and head of the center for Parkinson’s …

The recognition, characterization and development of treatment options for neurodegenerative
diseases is an important challenge. Ranging from frontotemporal degeneration, to …

… Contributors: Alby Richard, Wendy Johnston and Janis Miyasaki conceived the idea for this
study. Alby Richard and Joël Richard analyzed the data and drafted the article. All authors …