Interindividual variability and age-dependency of motor cortical plasticity induced by paired associative stimulation.

abstract：:Cellular relationships between serotonin (5-HT) axons and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-containing neurons were examined by combined (3H)5-HT uptake radioautography and TH immunocytochemistry in the medial zona incerta (ZI) of adult rats, 7 and 50 days after an intracerebral injection of 5,7-Dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT)....

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Frankfurt M,Beaudet A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cats anaesthetised with pentobarbitone, the effect of inhibitors of the in vitro cellular uptake of GABA were tested on the responses of single central neurones to GABA and other depressant amino acids. (4)- AND (-)-nepecotic acid, (4)-2,4-diaminobutyric acid (DABA) and 2,2-dimethyl-beta-alanine, enhanced the actio...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Curtis DR,Game CJ,Lodge D

更新日期：1976-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In frogs, each lobe of the midbrain optic tectum receives two spatially aligned maps of binocular visual space, one through each eye. The map from the contralateral eye is the product of direct retinal input to the tectum, while that from the ipsilateral eye is mediated by a commissural system of connections that rela...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Keating MJ,Dawes EA,Grant S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A size-weight illusion was used to examine the role of visual cues in the programming of manipulative forces during the lifting of test objects utilizing the precision grip. Three different boxes of equal weight and unequal size were lifted. These were equipped with an instrumented grip handle to measure the employed ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Gordon AM,Forssberg H,Johansson RS,Westling G

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates can gradually increase or decrease H-reflex amplitude in one leg when reward depends on that amplitude. The magnitude of change varies greatly from animal to animal. This study sought to define the factors that control this magnitude. It evaluated the influence of animal age, muscle size (absolute and relativ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Wolpaw JR,Herchenroder PA,Carp JS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eyeblink reflex is one of the most extensively studied behaviors in mammals. The active downward force that causes lid closure is controlled by the orbicularis oculi (OO) muscle. To augment our studies on the neurophysiology and plasticity of the rat eyeblink circuit, here we present the first anatomical paper to ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Faulkner B,Brown TH,Evinger C

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent anatomical and physiological studies have suggested that parts of the cingulate cortex are involved in the control of movement. These areas have been collectively termed the cingulate motor area (CMA). Currently almost nothing is known, however, about how neurons in the CMA actually participate in the control o...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Backus DA,Ye S,Russo GS,Crutcher MD

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous electrical stimulation of the motor cortex was used to activate rapidly conducting corticofugal pathways to human abdominal muscles. Following cortical stimulation the response latencies for the abdominal muscles were similar to those for limb muscles which are a similar distance from the motor cortex. Co...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Plassman BL,Gandevia SC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional reorganization in a musician's brain has long been considered strong evidence of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. Highly coordinated bimanual movements require abundant communication between bilateral hemispheres. Interhemispheric inhibition (IHI) is the communication between bilateral primary motor co...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kuo YL,Fisher BE

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of delta-aminovaleric acid (AVA) on the muscle relaxant properties of baclofen, a GABAB receptor agonist, was investigated in two experimental models: (1) the pathologically increased muscle tone of the gastrocnemius muscle in spastic mutant Han-Wistar rats and (2) the Hoffmann (H)-reflex recorded from plan...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Schwarz M,Klockgether T,Wüllner U,Turski L,Sontag KH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arm movement control system often relies on visual feedback to drive motor adaptation and to help specify desired trajectories. Here we studied whether kinematic errors that were indicated with auditory feedback could be used to control reaching in a way comparable with when vision was available. We randomized twe...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Oscari F,Secoli R,Avanzini F,Rosati G,Reinkensmeyer DJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familiarity with the visual environment affects our expectations about the objects in a scene, aiding in recognition and interaction. Here we tested whether the familiarity with the specific trajectory followed by a moving target facilitates the interpretation of the effects of underlying physical forces. Participants...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mijatović A,La Scaleia B,Mercuri N,Lacquaniti F,Zago M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research was to analyse the development of postural reactions to approaching (AOF) and receding (ROF) ground rectilinear optical flows. Optical flows were shaped by a pattern of circular spots of light projected on the ground surface by a texture flow generator. The geometrical structure of the project...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Baumberger B,Isableu B,Flückiger M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The startle reaction (SR) is usually understood as an involuntary reaction to an unexpected sensory input. However, there is evidence that the mechanisms involved in the SR contribute also to the execution of actions that we consider voluntary. We need to exert a fine control of the motor output, which usually involve...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Valls-Solé J,Kumru H,Kofler M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the peak and decline model divergent thinking declines at a specific age (in or after middle age). However, if divergent thinking declines steadily in aging still has to be clarified. In order to explore the age-related changes in verbal and visual divergent thinking, in the present study a sample of 159 ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Palmiero M,Nori R,Piccardi L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tone bursts produced bands of selective 2-[14C]-deoxyglucose labelling in the inferior colliculus (IC) of the awake monkey. Low tone frequencies produced labelling in dorsal regions and high tone frequencies produced labelling in ventral regions. The position of the bands coincided with the position of a single unit w...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Webster WR,Servière J,Crewther D,Crewther S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Force and electromyogram (EMG) responses of the medial gastrocnemius muscle were assessed during isometric contractions in 8 decerebrate cat preparations, before and after acute dorsal hemisection of the spinal cord at the T12 level. The measures derived included the relation between static force and mean rectified EM...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Blaschak MJ,Powers RK,Rymer WZ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of spatial interactions between current and upcoming elements in a movement sequence could be due to intentional planning of a "global" action sequence (i.e., strategic effects), or to unintentional motor planning arising from merely paying attention to upcoming target objects (i.e., interference effects). The...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： LeBlanc KA,Westwood DA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superior branch of the vestibular nerve containing peripheral axons of primary afferents originating in the lateral and anterior semicircular canals was cut bilaterally in three monkeys (vestibular neurectomy). Vertical and horizontal components of eye position were monitored by electro-oculography (EOG) during di...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Waespe W,Wolfensberger M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that motoneurone excitability is enhanced by a hyperpolarization of the membrane potential at which an action potential is initiated (V(th)) at the onset, and throughout brainstem-evoked fictive locomotion in the adult decerebrate cat and neonatal rat. Modeling work has suggested the modulation...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Power KE,Carlin KP,Fedirchuk B

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined precision-grip force applied to an instrumented test object held aloft while the weight of the object was predictably varied by transporting and placing loads (50, 100, or 200 g) atop the test object. Transport of the loads was performed either by the subject or the experimenter. Grip force was exa...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Weeks DL,Wallace SA,Noteboom JT

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proprioception is used by the central nervous system (CNS) in the control of the spatial and temporal characteristics of single joint and multiple joint movement. The present study addressed the role of proprioception in the control of bilateral cyclical movements of the limbs. Normal blindfolded human subjects drew c...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Verschueren SM,Swinnen SP,Cordo PJ,Dounskaia NV

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of the caudal ventrolateral medulla (CVLM) in mediating vagal cardiopulmonary (Bezold-Jarisch reflex) reflex activity was studied in urethane-anaesthetized rats. Unilateral electrolytic lesion of the CVLM markedly attenuated Bezold-Jarisch reflex responses (hypotension and bradycardia) elicited by intra...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Verberne AJ,Beart PM,Louis WJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study tested the idea that the visuomotor systems mediating prehension do not have independent access to pictorial cues processed by perceptual mechanisms. Individuals with visual form agnosia, whose perceptual systems are compromised but who have intact visuomotor control, were examined to determine wheth...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Marotta JJ,Behrmann M,Goodale MA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain catastrophizing has been associated with phantom limb pain, but so far the cortical processes and the brain regions involved in this relationship have not been investigated. It was therefore tested whether catastrophizing was related to (1) spontaneous pain, (2) somatosensory activity and (3) cortical responses i...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Vase L,Egsgaard LL,Nikolajsen L,Svensson P,Jensen TS,Arendt-Nielsen L

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial separation of the eyes in animals with overlapping visual fields means that parts of a three dimensional object project to slightly disparate retinal points in each eye. This disparity, once interpreted by the brain, is thought to be a sufficient condition for stereoperception. In the present experiment, s...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lepore F,Ptito M,Lassonde M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential pulse voltammetry was performed in rats chronically implanted with carbon fiber electrodes in the caudate (n.Cd) and raphe dorsalis (n.RD) nuclei. The electrochemical signal obtained at the +300 mV potential (peak 3) in animals implanted for more than one week (long term chronic conditions, greater than 7...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Cespuglio R,Sarda N,Gharib A,Faradji H,Chastrette N

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ensemble properties of unit activity in the rat hippocampus were studied during different behavioral states defined by the presence or absence of the theta rhythm. A 24-channel microelectrode was used to monitor the parallel activity of several single neurons simultaneously. Individual units were characterized by ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kuperstein M,Eichenbaum H,VanDeMark T

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats probe objects with their whiskers and make decisions about sizes, shapes, textures and distances within a few tens of milliseconds. This perceptual analysis requires the processing of tactile high-frequency object components reflecting surface roughness. We have shown that neurons in the barrel cortex of rats enc...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ewert TA,Möller J,Engel AK,Vahle-Hinz C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A photographic technique was used to study the evolution of lateral head-tilt following hemilabyrinthectomy in adult cats. Animals were maintained post-operatively in normally lit conditions (LM cats), in total darkness (DM cats), or in stroboscopic light. In LM casts, the head tilt peaked at 45 degrees (with the lesi...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Putkonen PT,Courjon JH,Jeannerod M

更新日期：1977-06-27 00:00:00