Looking for a pattern: an MEG study on the abstract mismatch negativity in musicians and nonmusicians.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence suggests that glial signalling is activated by different brain functions. However, knowledge regarding molecular mechanisms of activation or their relation to neuronal activity is limited. The purpose of the present study is to identify the characteristics of ATP-evoked glial signalling...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Molnár T,Dobolyi A,Nyitrai G,Barabás P,Héja L,Emri Z,Palkovits M,Kardos J

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound stimulation (LIPUS) has been proven to be a noninvasive method with high spatial resolution and deep penetration. Previous studies have qualitatively demonstrated that the electromyographic response caused by LIPUS in the mouse motor cortex is affected by the anesthetic state ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Yuan Y,Wang X,Yan J,Li X

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many studies of cerebral asymmetries in different species lead, on the one hand, to a better understanding of the functions of each cerebral hemisphere and, on the other hand, to develop an evolutionary history of hemispheric laterality. Our animal model is particularly interesting because of its original ev...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Blois-Heulin C,Crével M,Böye M,Lemasson A

更新日期：2012-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutamate, a major excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter, causes apoptotic neuronal cell death at high concentrations. Our previous studies have shown that depending on the neuronal cell type, glutamate-induced apoptotic cell death was associated with regulation of genes such as Bcl-2, Bax, and/or caspase-3...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Zhang Y,Bhavnani BR

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia and represents one of the highest unmet requirements in medicine today. There is shortage of novel molecules entering into market because of poor pharmacokinetic properties and safety issues. Drug repurposing offers an opportunity to reinvigorat...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kumar S,Chowdhury S,Kumar S

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity has deleterious effects on the brain, and metabolic dysfunction may exacerbate the outcomes of seizures and brain injuries. However, it is unclear whether obesity affects excitotoxicity-induced neuronal cell death. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a high-fat diet (HFD) on n...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kang DH,Heo RW,Yi CO,Kim H,Choi CH,Roh GS

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:GABAA receptor-mediated neurotransmission is greatly influenced by cation-chloride cotransporter activity during developmental stages. In embryonic neurons Na-K-2Cl (NKCC1) cotransporters mediate active chloride uptake, thus increasing the intracellular chloride concentration associated with GABA-induced dep...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Chabwine JN,Talavera K,Van Den Bosch L,Callewaert G

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxious disorder associated with low levels of corticosterone and enhanced negative feedback of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Previous studies showed that the amygdala not only has an excitatory effect on the HPA axis but also plays a key role in f...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Han F,Ding J,Shi Y

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The processing of verbal fluency tasks relies on the coordinated activity of a number of brain areas, particularly in the frontal and temporal lobes of the left hemisphere. Recent studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the neural networks subserving verbal fluency functions have ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Wagner S,Sebastian A,Lieb K,Tüscher O,Tadić A

更新日期：2014-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the reported inverse association between light and depressive mood, ambient light may also be associated with some of the brain regions in healthy subjects. The present study aims to investigate the effects of ambient light on glucose metabolism in the brain. We used the data of 28 healthy participants...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Hirakawa H,Terao T,Hatano K,Kohno K,Ishii N

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that the human right-hemispheric auditory cortex is particularly sensitive to reduction in sound quality, with an increase in distortion resulting in an amplification of the auditory N1m response measured in the magnetoencephalography (MEG). Here, we examined whether this sensitivit...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Miettinen I,Tiitinen H,Alku P,May PJ

更新日期：2010-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neuro-degenerative disease with a major manifestation of dementia. MicroRNAs were reported to regulate the transcript expression in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this study, we investigated the roles of miR-138, a brain-enriched miRNA, in the AD cell mod...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Miao J,Jing J,Shao Y,Sun H

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been reported that various types of axonal injury of hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal tract can result in degeneration of the magnocellular neurons (MCNs) in hypothalamus and development of central diabetes insipidus (CDI). However, the mechanism of the degeneration and death of MCNs after hypophysectomy ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Wang Y,Zhao C,Wang Z,Wang C,Feng W,Huang L,Zhang J,Qi S

更新日期：2008-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent discoveries suggest that arealization of the mammalian cortical sheet develops in a manner consonant with principles established for embryonic patterning of the body. Signaling centers release morphogens that determine regional growth and tissue identity by regulating regional expression of transcript...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Airey DC,Robbins AI,Enzinger KM,Wu F,Collins CE

更新日期：2005-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recovery following stroke depends on cellular plasticity in the perilesional zone (PZ). Doublecortin (DCX), a protein mainly labeling immature neurons in neurogenic niches is also highly expressed in the vicinity of focal cortical infarcts. Notably, the number of DCX+ cells positively correlates with the rec...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kunze A,Achilles A,Keiner S,Witte OW,Redecker C

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lateralized processing of speech is a well studied phenomenon in humans. Both anatomical and neurophysiological studies support the view that nonhuman primates and other animal species also reveal hemispheric differences in areas involved in sound processing. In recent years, an increasing number of studies ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Fischer J,Teufel C,Drolet M,Patzelt A,Rübsamen R,von Cramon DY,Schubotz RI

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The zitter (zi/zi) rat, a loss-of-function mutant of the glycosylated transmembrane protein attractin (atrn), exhibits widespread age-dependent spongiform degeneration, hypomyelination, and abnormal metabolism of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the brain. To date, the mechanisms underlying these phenotypes ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Sakakibara S,Nakadate K,Ookawara S,Ueda S

更新日期：2008-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acetylcholine receptors become aggregated at the developing neuromuscular synapse shortly after contact by a motorneuron in one of the earliest manifestations of synaptic development. While a major physiological signal for receptor aggregation (agrin) is known, the mechanism(s) by which muscle cells respond ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kunkel DD,Lee LK,Stollberg J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impaired speech perception is one of the major sequelae of aging. In addition to peripheral hearing loss, central deficits of auditory processing are supposed to contribute to the deterioration of speech perception in older individuals. To test the hypothesis that auditory temporal processing is compromised ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Sörös P,Teismann IK,Manemann E,Lütkenhöner B

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To examine which language function depends on early experience, the present study compared deaf native signers, deaf non-native signers and hearing German native speakers while processing German sentences. The participants watched simple written sentences while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Skotara N,Salden U,Kügow M,Hänel-Faulhaber B,Röder B

更新日期：2012-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early stages in the excitation cascade of Limulus photoreceptors are mediated by activation of Gq by rhodopsin, generation of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate by phospholipase-C and the release of Ca2+. At the end of the cascade, cGMP-gated channels open and generate the depolarizing receptor potential. A major ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Garger AV,Richard EA,Lisman JE

更新日期：2004-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Imprinting behavior is one form of learning and memory in precocial birds. With the aim of elucidating of the neural basis for visual imprinting, we focused on visual information processing. RESULTS:A lesion in the visual wulst, which is similar functionally to the mammalian visual cortex, caused anterograd...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Maekawa F,Komine O,Sato K,Kanamatsu T,Uchimura M,Tanaka K,Ohki-Hamazaki H

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A recent study of lateral septum (LS) suggested a large number of autism-related genes with altered expression in the postpartum state. However, formally testing the findings for enrichment of autism-associated genes proved to be problematic with existing software. Many gene-disease association databases hav...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Eisinger BE,Saul MC,Driessen TM,Gammie SC

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations, which are present in all mitochondria-containing cells, paradoxically cause tissue-specific disease. For example, Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) results from one of three point mutations mtDNA coding for complex I components, but is only manifested in retinal ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Hoegger MJ,Lieven CJ,Levin LA

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After unilateral cervical cord lesion at the C7/C8 border interrupting the dorsolateral funiculus in adult monkeys, neutralization of Nogo-A using a specific monoclonal antibody promoted sprouting of corticospinal (CS) axons rostral and caudal to the lesion and, in parallel, improved functional recovery. In ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Beaud ML,Schmidlin E,Wannier T,Freund P,Bloch J,Mir A,Schwab ME,Rouiller EM

更新日期：2008-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) pneumoniae is an intracellular bacterium that has been identified within cells in areas of neuropathology found in Alzheimer disease (AD), including endothelia, glia, and neurons. Depending on the cell type of the host, infection by C. pneumoniae has been shown to influence apoptoti...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Appelt DM,Roupas MR,Way DS,Bell MG,Albert EV,Hammond CJ,Balin BJ

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:How does the brain repair obliterated speech and cope with acoustically ambivalent situations? A widely discussed possibility is to use top-down information for solving the ambiguity problem. In the case of speech, this may lead to a match of bottom-up sensory input with lexical expectations resulting in res...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Eulitz C,Hannemann R

更新日期：2010-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polymorphisms in the gene for phosphatidylinositol binding clathrin assembly protein (PICALM), an endocytic-related protein, are associated with a small, increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), strongly suggesting that changes in endocytosis are involved in the aetiology of the disease. We hav...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Thomas RS,Henson A,Gerrish A,Jones L,Williams J,Kidd EJ

更新日期：2016-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Synaptic degeneration and accumulation of amyloid β-peptides (Aβ) are hallmarks of the Alzheimer diseased brain. Aβ is synaptotoxic and produced by sequential cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) by the β-secretase BACE1 and by γ-secretase. If APP is instead cleaved by the α-secretase ADAM10, Aβ w...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Lundgren JL,Vandermeulen L,Sandebring-Matton A,Ahmed S,Winblad B,Di Luca M,Tjernberg LO,Marcello E,Frykman S

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excitotoxicity (the toxic overstimulation of neurons by the excitatory transmitter Glutamate) is a central process in widespread neurodegenerative conditions such as brain ischemia and chronic neurological diseases. Many mechanisms have been suggested to mediate excitotoxicity, but their significance across ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Del Rosario JS,Feldmann KG,Ahmed T,Amjad U,Ko B,An J,Mahmud T,Salama M,Mei S,Asemota D,Mano I

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00