Cell cycle dysregulation and the aberrant activation of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) lead to uncontrolled cell proliferation; therefore, these events represent well-established hallmarks of cancer. The advent of CDK4/6 inhibitors, namely, palbociclib, ribociclib and abemaciclib, has changed the management of oestrogen receptor (ER)-positive/HER2-negative advanced breast tumours. The clinical success of these drugs for the t...

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), referring to exaggerated or inappropriate episodes of laughing and/or crying without an apparent motivating stimulus, has been mainly attributed to bilateral degeneration of corticobulbar tracts. We aimed at exploring brain functional connectivity (FC) correlates of PBA in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common motor neuron disease, frequently associated with PBA. Resting...

Emerging evidence suggests that memory deficit in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease with varying impairment of motor abilities and cognitive profile, may be independent from executive dysfunction. Our multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) approach, including resting state functional MRI (RS-fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and voxel-based morphometry (VBM), aimed to investigate structu...