Control of a specific motor program by a small brain area in zebrafish.

abstract：:A fluorescent voltage sensor protein "Flare" was created from a Kv1.4 potassium channel with YFP situated to report voltage-induced conformational changes in vivo. The RNA virus Sindbis introduced Flare into neurons in the binocular region of visual cortex in rat. Injection sites were selected based on intrinsic optic...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Ahrens KF,Heider B,Lee H,Isacoff EY,Siegel RM

更新日期：2012-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their ascending pathways that originate at the receptor cells, all sensory systems are characterized by extensive descending projections. Although the size of these connections often outweighs those that carry information in the ascending auditory pathway, we still have a relatively poor understanding o...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Bajo VM,King AJ

更新日期：2013-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The central vocal pathway of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, is a powerful vertebrate model to understand mechanisms underlying central pattern generation. However, fast and efficient methods of introducing exogenous genes into the neurons of adult X. laevis are currently not available. Here, we systematicall...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Yamaguchi A,Woller DJ,Rodrigues P

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI has been extensively used in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontal-temporal dementia (FTD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). MRI is important for monitoring the neurodegenerative components...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Saar G,Koretsky AP

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:How complex natural sounds are represented by the main converging center of the auditory midbrain, the central inferior colliculus, is an open question. We applied neural discrimination to determine the variation of detailed encoding of individual vocalizations across the best frequency gradient of the central inferio...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Lyzwa D,Herrmann JM,Wörgötter F

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FOXP2 is a transcription factor functionally relevant for learned vocalizations in humans and songbirds. In songbirds, FoxP2 mRNA expression in the medium spiny neurons of the basal ganglia song nucleus Area X is developmentally regulated and varies with singing conditions in different social contexts. How individual ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Thompson CK,Schwabe F,Schoof A,Mendoza E,Gampe J,Rochefort C,Scharff C

更新日期：2013-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have carried out a Gal4 enhancer trap screen in zebrafish, and have generated 184 stable transgenic lines with interesting expression patterns throughout the nervous system. Of these, three display clear expression in the tectum, each with a distinguishable and stereotyped distribution of Gal4 expressing cells. Det...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Scott EK,Baier H

更新日期：2009-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal cortical dysplasias (FCDs) are a common cause of brain seizures and are often associated with intractable epilepsy. Here we evaluated aberrant brain neurophysiology in an in vivo mouse model of FCD induced by neonatal freeze lesions (FLs) to the right cortical hemisphere (near S1). Linear multi-electrode arrays ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Williams AJ,Zhou C,Sun QQ

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary (S1) and secondary (S2) somatosensory cortices project to several trigeminal sensory nuclei. One putative function of these corticofugal projections is the gating of sensory transmission through the trigeminal principal nucleus (Pr5), and some have proposed that S1 and S2 project differentially to the spin...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Smith JB,Watson GD,Alloway KD,Schwarz C,Chakrabarti S

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitral and tufted cells (MTCs) of the mammalian olfactory bulb are connected via dendrodendritic synapses with inhibitory interneurons in the external plexiform layer. The range, spatial layout, and temporal properties of inhibitory interactions between MTCs mediated by inhibitory interneurons remain unclear. Therefor...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Lehmann A,D'Errico A,Vogel M,Spors H

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of neural circuits involves multiple sequential steps such as the specification of cell-types, their migration to proper brain locations, morphological and physiological differentiation, and the formation and maturation of synaptic connections. This intricate and often prolonged process is guided by elabo...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Paul A,Cai Y,Atwal GS,Huang ZJ

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The most typical and well known inhibitory action in the cortical microcircuit is a strong inhibition on the target neuron by axo-somatic synapses. However, it has become clear that synaptic inhibition in the cortex is much more diverse and complicated. Firstly, at least ten or more inhibitory non-pyramidal cell subty...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Kubota Y,Karube F,Nomura M,Kawaguchi Y

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic programs controlling ontogeny drive many of the essential connectivity patterns within the brain. Yet it is activity, derived from the experience of interacting with the world, that sculpts the precise circuitry of the central nervous system. Such experience-dependent plasticity has been observed throughout th...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Priebe NJ,McGee AW

更新日期：2014-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Both abnormalities of resting-state cerebral blood flow (CBF) and functional connectivity in Wilson's disease (WD) have been identified by several studies. Whether the coupling of CBF and functional connectivity is imbalanced in WD remains largely unknown. To assess this possibility, 27 patients with WD and 27 sex- an...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Hu S,Wu H,Xu C,Wang A,Wang Y,Shen T,Huang F,Kan H,Li C

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of sensory neuroscience is to understand how the brain creates its myriad of representations of the world, and uses these representations to produce perception and behavior. Circuits of neurons in spatially segregated regions of brain tissue have distinct functional specializations, and these regions are conn...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Zavitz E,Price NSC

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:How do local circuits in the inferior colliculus (IC) process and transform spectral and temporal sound information? Using a four-tetrode array we examined the functional properties of the IC and metrics of its micro circuitry by recording neural activity from neighboring single neurons in the cat. Spectral and tempor...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Chen C,Rodriguez FC,Read HL,Escabí MA

更新日期：2012-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The delay eyeblink conditioning (EBC) is a cerebellum-dependent type of associative motor learning. However, the exact roles played by the various cerebellar synapses, as well as the underlying molecular mechanisms, remain to be determined. It is also unclear whether long-term potentiation (LTP) or long-term depressio...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Emi K,Kakegawa W,Miura E,Ito-Ishida A,Kohda K,Yuzaki M

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral neuronal interactions are known to play important roles in sensory information processing. A center-on surround-off local circuit arrangement has been shown to play a role in mediating contrast enhancement in the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems. The lateral connectivity and the influence of those c...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Kim DH,Chang AY,McTavish TS,Patel HK,Willhite DC

更新日期：2012-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of the subthreshold, ongoing activity in cortical neurons has been the focus of numerous studies. This activity, described as spontaneous slow waves in membrane potential, has been observed in a span of species in diverse cortical and subcortical areas. We here characterized membrane potential flu...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Yaron-Jakoubovitch A,Koch C,Segev I,Yarom Y

更新日期：2013-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The parahippocampal areas including the subiculum, pre- and parasubiculum, and notably the entorhinal cortex (EC) are intimately involved in the generation of limbic seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy. We investigated changes in the expression of 10 major GABAA receptor subunit mRNAs in subfields of the ventral hippoc...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Drexel M,Kirchmair E,Sperk G

更新日期：2013-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we provide a brief overview over the current knowledge about the role of dopamine transmission in the prefrontal cortex during learning and memory. We discuss work in humans, monkeys, rats, and birds in order to provide a basis for comparison across species that might help identify crucial features and...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Puig MV,Rose J,Schmidt R,Freund N

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of grid cells in rat entorhinal cortex, many models of their hexagonally arrayed spatial firing fields have been suggested. We review the models and organize them according to the mechanisms they use to encode position, update the positional code, read it out in the spatial grid pattern, and learn ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Zilli EA

更新日期：2012-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex spatial representations in the hippocampal formation and related cortical areas require input from the head direction system. However, a recurrent finding is that behavior apparently supported by these spatial representations does not appear to require input from generative head direction regions, i.e., latera...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Dillingham CM,Vann SD

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostatic regulation of REM sleep drive, as measured by an increase in the number of REM sleep transitions, plays a key role in neuronal and behavioral plasticity (i.e., learning and memory). Deficits in REM sleep homeostatic drive (RSHD) are implicated in the development of many neuropsychiatric disorders. Yet, the...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Datta S,Oliver MD

更新日期：2017-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Research efforts over the past decades have unraveled both genetic and environmental factors, which contribute to the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is, to date, largely unknown how different underlying causes result in a common phenotype. However, the individual course of development and the diffe...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Schoen M,Asoglu H,Bauer HF,Müller HP,Abaei A,Sauer AK,Zhang R,Song TJ,Bockmann J,Kassubek J,Rasche V,Grabrucker AM,Boeckers TM

更新日期：2019-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The human cerebral cortex is highly convoluted as convex gyri and concave sulci. In the past decades, extensive studies have consistently revealed substantial differences between gyri and sulci in terms of genetics, anatomy, morphology, axonal fiber connections, and function. Although interesting findings have been re...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Yang S,Zhao Z,Cui H,Zhang T,Zhao L,He Z,Liu H,Guo L,Liu T,Becker B,Kendrick KM,Jiang X

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic labeling of neurons with a specific response feature is an emerging technology for precise dissection of brain circuits that are functionally heterogeneous at the single-cell level. While immediate early gene mapping has been widely used for decades to identify brain regions which are activated by external sti...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Kawashima T,Okuno H,Bito H

更新日期：2014-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of light to cause pain is paradoxical. The retina detects light but is devoid of nociceptors while the trigeminal sensory ganglia (TG) contain nociceptors but not photoreceptors. Melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are thought to mediate light-induced pain but...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Matynia A,Nguyen E,Sun X,Blixt FW,Parikh S,Kessler J,Pérez de Sevilla Müller L,Habib S,Kim P,Wang ZZ,Rodriguez A,Charles A,Nusinowitz S,Edvinsson L,Barnes S,Brecha NC,Gorin MB

更新日期：2016-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) is a biologically constrained unsupervised form of learning that potentiates or depresses synaptic connections based on the precise timing of pre-synaptic and post-synaptic firings. The effects of on-going STDP on the topology of evolving model neural networks were assessed in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Stone DB,Tesche CD

更新日期：2013-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 33 in vol. 8, PMID: 24782714.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Noudoost B,Clark KL

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00