Supraspinal facilitation of cutaneous polysynaptic EPSPs in cat medical gastrocnemius motoneurons.

abstract：:Stroke is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in advanced countries of the world. Despite the fact that reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS) are the by-products of normal metabolic processes and mediate important physiological processes, they can inflict damage to the cell if produced in...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Saeed SA,Shad KF,Saleem T,Javed F,Khan MU

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even the simplest volitional movements must be precisely coordinated with anticipatory postural adjustments. Little is currently known about the neural networks that coordinate these adjustments in healthy adults. We measured brain activity prior to movement during a bimanual load-lifting task, designed to elicit anti...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ng TH,Sowman PF,Brock J,Johnson BW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of non-progressive developmental movement disorders inducing a strong brain reorganization in primary and secondary motor areas. Nevertheless, few studies have been dedicated to quantify brain pattern changes and correlate them with motor characteristics in CP children. In this context, ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Inuggi A,Bassolino M,Tacchino C,Pippo V,Bergamaschi V,Campus C,De Franchis V,Pozzo T,Moretti P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a series of experiments to determine whether negative priming is used in the process of target selection for a saccadic eye movement. The key questions addressed the circumstances in which the negative priming of an object takes place, and the distinction between spatial and object-based effects. Experime...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Donovan T,Crawford TJ,Litchfield D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directional preferences have previously been demonstrated during horizontal arm movements. These preferences were characterized by a tendency to exploit interaction torques for movement production at the shoulder or elbow, indicating that the preferred directions depend on biomechanical, and not on visual perception-b...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Dounskaia N,Wang W,Sainburg RL,Przybyla A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on grasp control underlying manual dexterity in people with Parkinson disease (PD) suggest that anticipatory grasp control is mainly unaffected during discrete tasks using simple two-digit grasp. Nevertheless, impaired hand function during daily activities is one of the most disabling symptoms of PD. As many d...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Albert F,Diermayr G,McIsaac TL,Gordon AM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vestibular influences on outflow from the spinal cord are largely mediated via spinal interneurons, although few studies have recorded interneuronal activity during labyrinthine stimulation. The present study determined the responses of upper thoracic interneurons of decerebrate cats to electrical stimulation of the v...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Miller DM,Reighard DA,Mehta AS,Mehta AS,Kalash R,Yates BJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal vision overrides perturbed vestibular information for the optimization of performance during goal directed locomotion, suggesting down-regulation of vestibular gain. However, it is not known if the responses to vestibular perturbation are accentuated when vision is impaired. Furthermore, both visual and vestibu...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Deshpande N,Patla AE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to further investigate the contribution of primary muscle spindle feedback to proprioception and higher brain functions, such as movement trajectory recognition. For this purpose, complex illusory movements were evoked in subjects by applying patterns of muscle tendon vibration mimicki...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Albert F,Bergenheim M,Ribot-Ciscar E,Roll JP

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental changes in the human brain coincide with and underlie changes in a wide range of motor and cognitive abilities. Neuroimaging studies have shown that musical training can result in structural and functional plasticity in the brains of musicians, and that this plasticity is greater for those who begin trai...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Watanabe D,Savion-Lemieux T,Penhune VB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight illusions--where one object feels heavier than an identically weighted counterpart--have been the focus of many recent scientific investigations. The most famous of these illusions is the 'size-weight illusion', where a small object feels heavier than an identically weighted, but otherwise similar-looking, larg...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Buckingham G

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interval timing deficiencies in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have been a matter of debate. Here we test the possibility of PD heterogeneity as a source for this discrepancy. Temporal performance of PD patients and control subjects was assessed during two interval tapping tasks and during a categorization task of ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Merchant H,Luciana M,Hooper C,Majestic S,Tuite P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the dynamics of human saccades along various cardinal (horizontal and vertical) and oblique directions in two different experimental paradigms yielding fast and slow saccades, respectively. We found that the saturation of vectorial peak velocity with amplitude, which is already well known from earlier ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Smit AC,Van Opstal AJ,Van Gisbergen JA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the topographic organization of nociceptive neurons in the caudal medullary reticular formation, the distribution of cells that exhibit c-fos expression was examined following a unilateral noxious facial stimulus: subcutaneous injection of formalin into the vibrissal pad of awake rats. Labelling for Fos...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mineta Y,Eisenberg E,Strassman AM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine participants performed a reciprocal precision aiming task under different experimental conditions. Due to the anisotropy of the work space, varying the direction of motion (from 0 degrees to 315 degrees in steps of 45 degrees ) allowed exploration of the effects of biomechanical constraints that were found to aff...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Fernandez L,Bootsma RJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent double-labeling technique has been used to determine whether the corticopontine and the corticotectal fibers in the cat are derived from two different sets of neurons or whether they are derived from branching neurons which distribute collaterals to the pontine grey and the colliculi. After unilateral ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Keizer K,Kuypers HG,Ronday HK

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradykinin is an endogenous nonapeptide known to induce pain and hyperalgesia to heat and mechanical stimulation. Correspondingly, it excites nociceptors in various tissues and sensitizes them to heat, whereas sensitizing effect on the mechanical response of nociceptors is not well established. Protein kinase C and TR...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mizumura K,Sugiura T,Katanosaka K,Banik RK,Kozaki Y

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Descending vestibular pathways have been shown to influence recruitment thresholds of alpha motoneurones in both human and cat. However, whereas parallel connections to the fusimotor system have been shown in the cat, such connections have not yet been demonstrated in humans. In the present study we investigated wheth...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bent LR,Bolton PS,Macefield VG

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticipatory synergy adjustment (ASA) is a feed-forward control mechanism that describes a continuous decrease in the stability of the current motor state beginning about 150 ms prior to a state transition. Recently, we described an associated phenomenon in which the system stability was reduced solely in response to ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Tillman M,Ambike S

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the theoretical notion that tools often extend one's body, in the present study, we investigated whether imitation of hand or tool actions is modulated by effector-specific information. Subjects performed grasping actions toward an object with either a handheld tool or their right hand. Actions were initiate...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： van Elk M,van Schie HT,Bekkering H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the lateral septal area (LSA), both inhibitory and excitatory dopamine (DA) actions, as well as hypothalamic and midbrain DA efferents, have been described. Some neurons of the hypothalamic and midbrain DA systems contain somatostatin (SOM) or neurotensin (NT), and, in the LSA, the distribution of fibers containing...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Jakab RL,Leranth C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To measure dynamic visuo-motor coupling within the two hemispheres, we showed observers an animation of a rotating cup. They indicated with left or right buttons when a fixation dot in the center of the animation changed color. For either hand, response times changed continuously with the irrelevant position of the cu...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Fischer MH,Dahl CD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a double-label 2-DG protocol and method of analysis in which sequential injections of 3H- and 14C-2-DG were used to map brain metabolism during two distinct experimental treatments in the same animal. In initial studies, brain sections from rats given only 3H-2-DG or only 14C-2-DG were exposed on Ultro...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Friedman HR,Bruce CJ,Goldman-Rakic PS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies of human eye-head coordinated saccadic gaze shifts, different laboratories have found greatly different magnitudes of head movements for a given amplitude of gaze shift (head movement gain). The present study was conducted to examine why, and to quantify volitional head movements. Fixation/target lights wer...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Fuller JH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental practice (MP) is a promising adjuvant to physical practice that involves many of the same mechanisms and takes on many of the same properties as physical practice. This study compared efficacy of a "massed" MP regimen versus a "distributed" MP regimen on upper extremity (UE) motor impairment and functional limi...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Page SJ,Hade EM,Pang J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wealth of evidence describes the strong positive impact that reward has on motor control at the behavioural level. However, surprisingly little is known regarding the neural mechanisms which underpin these effects, beyond a reliance on the dopaminergic system. In recent work, we developed a task that enabled the dis...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Codol O,Galea JM,Jalali R,Holland PJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that fatigue-induced impairment in movement accuracy is caused by a decrease in muscle cocontraction rather than a reduced ability to produce muscular force. Seven participants performed fast and accurate elbow extensions aimed at a target, before and after a ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Missenard O,Mottet D,Perrey S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effects of mental set on predictive capabilities using a saccade square-wave tracking paradigm with ten normal subjects, comparing three amplitudes (10, 20, and 40 degrees ) and five inter-stimulus intervals (ISIs) (400, 500, 625, 1000, and 2000 ms). Subjects were instructed simply to "follow ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Isotalo E,Lasker AG,Zee DS

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) to function properly, namely to ensure a stable retinal image under all circumstances, it should be able to take into account varying eye positions in the orbit and varying orientations of the head with respect to the axis about which it is rotating. We tested this capability by q...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Fetter M,Hain TC,Zee DS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental pattern of hippocampal mossy fiber (dentate granule cell axon) innervation to the pyramidal cell layer was examined with anterograde transport methods. Injection of 3H-leucine into the dentate gyrus on PN 1 resulted in labeling of the incipient stratum lucidum extending to, but not beyond, the CA3 re...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Cook TM,Crutcher KA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00