A functional MRI study of face recognition in patients with prosopagnosia.

abstract：:Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) plays critical roles in neurotransmission, synaptic plasticity, learning and memory. The aim of this study was to examine, by in situ hybridization, prefrontal cortical expression of CaMKII alpha mRNA in postmortem brains of unipolar, bipolar, schizophrenic, and con...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Xing G,Russell S,Hough C,O'Grady J,Zhang L,Yang S,Zhang LX,Post R

更新日期：2002-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in nitric oxide (NO) concentration and cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the parietal cortex during hypercapnoea were investigated in anaesthetized rats, using a NO-selective electrode and laser Doppler flowmetry. When hypercapnoea was induced by inhalation of 5% CO2 for 10 min, both the NO concentration and CBF in...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Harada M,Fuse A,Tanaka Y

更新日期：1997-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to attribute mental states to others ('theory of mind') pervades normal social interaction and is impaired in autistic individuals. In a previous positron emission tomography scan study of normal volunteers, performing a 'theory of mind' task was associated with activity in left medial prefrontal cortex. W...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Happé F,Ehlers S,Fletcher P,Frith U,Johansson M,Gillberg C,Dolan R,Frackowiak R,Frith C

更新日期：1996-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of spinal NMDA receptors in mechanical nociceptive processing was assessed in sheep. Intrathecal NMDA (2 nmol-1 micromol) produced a significant reduction in mechanical withdrawal thresholds. This effect was attenuated by pretreatment with the NMDA receptor antagonist MK801 (100 nmol), the cyclooxygenase-2 (C...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Dolan S,Nolan AM

更新日期：1999-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the roles of the auditory cortex in discrimination learning of vowel-like sounds consisting of multiple formants. Rats were trained to discriminate between synthetic sounds with four formants. Bilateral electrolytic lesions including the primary auditory cortex and the dorsal auditory association corte...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kudoh M,Nakayama Y,Hishida R,Shibuki K

更新日期：2006-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Flurothyl kindling initiates a time-dependent process that results in a facilitated propagation from the forebrain to the brainstem seizure system and in an increase in the complexity of behavioral seizure expression. We investigated the involvement of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus (VMH) in mediating th...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ferland RJ,Applegate CD

更新日期：1998-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic brain responses were recorded to clarify the cortical representation of vowel processing in Japanese. We investigated the peak latencies and equivalent current dipoles of the auditory N1m responses to the Japanese vowels [a], [i], [o], and [u]. In intraindividual analyses for a single participant, well-replic...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ogata E,Yumoto M,Itoh K,Sekimoto S,Karino S,Kaga K

更新日期：2006-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier screening, we identified several genes for kinases that might control the extension of neurites. One of these genes encoded a leukocyte tyrosine kinase (LTK), which is a receptor tyrosine kinase whose ligands remain to be identified. To examine the possible role of this LTK in neurite outgrowth, we const...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Yamada S,Nomura T,Takano K,Fujita S,Miyake M,Miyake J

更新日期：2008-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:BC200 is a long noncoding RNA expressed at high levels in the Alzheimer's disease (AD), and blocking of BC200 by siRNA is assumed to be an effective method for various disease therapy. We have established an AD cell model overexpressing amyloid β-peptide (Aβ)1-42 to observe the effects of BC200 on the cell viability a...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Li H,Zheng L,Jiang A,Mo Y,Gong Q

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not clear whether attention is necessary or not for consciousness. We studied the relationship between attention and consciousness by tracking their electrophysiological correlates. The participants attended to visual targets, ignored nontargets in the prespecified visual field and ignored all stimuli in the opp...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Koivisto M,Revonsuo A

更新日期：2007-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study investigated whether an ipsilesional bias in line bisection, a conventional measure for diagnosing hemispatial neglect, persists even in the absence of this syndrome in patients with chronic lesions restricted to posterior association cortex or dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Both left and right hemi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Machado L,Rafal RD

更新日期：1999-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether short-term saccadic adaptation modifies hand pointing. Subjects were presented with double-step targets, the second target jump occurring during the saccade to the first one and bringing the target back to 66% of the first target eccentricity, in order to reduce the gain of their gaze saccades....

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： de Graaf JB,Pélisson D,Prablanc C,Goffart L

更新日期：1995-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Salidroside (SDS), a phenylpropanoid glycoside isolated from Rhodiola rosea L., has been reported to be neuroprotective in vitro, which raises the possibility of using SDS as a neuroprotective agent after nerve injuries. In the present study, the possibly beneficial effect of SDS on promoting nerve regeneration after ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Sheng QS,Wang ZJ,Zhang J,Zhang YG

更新日期：2013-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulbospinal C1 neurons are sympathoexcitatory and excited by substance P. However the substance P receptor (NK1 receptor), has been reported to be absent from the somata of C1 neurons. In this study, using double and triple labelling immunofluorescence and retrograde tracing, we provide evidence that the NK1 receptor ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Makeham JM,Goodchild AK,Pilowsky PM

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol is widely used for induction and maintenance of anaesthesia, which causes a rapid loss of consciousness. So far the mechanisms underlying the effect of propofol are still largely unknown. Here, we found that microinjection of propofol in the lateral hypothalamus caused a significant decrease in wakefulness an...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Shi Y,Xiao D,Dai L,Si Y,Fang Q,Wei X

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The 6-hydroxydopamine rat model of Parkinson's disease was combined with intracerebral drug infusions to examine the influence of glutamate receptors on striatal output activity. When infused into the dopamine-denervated striatum, the AMPA-kainate receptor antagonist DNQX dose-dependently elicited contralateral rotati...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Schuller JJ,Marshall JF

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate whether frontal lobe damage affects thalamic volume in humans. Ipsilateral and contralateral thalamic areas were measured in 0.5T T1-weighted sagittal magnetic resonance images in 12 patients, first at the time of their surgery for relief of a unilateral frontal lobe brain tumo...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Hulshoff Pol HE,van der Flier WM,Schnack HG,Tulleken CA,Ramos LM,van Ree JM,Kahn RS

更新日期：2000-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of previous musical training on lateralization of language as indexed by the effects of reading aloud on the modulation of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) induced in the first dorsal interosseus muscles (FDI) by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the primary motor cortex. We studied 1...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lin KL,Kobayashi M,Pascual-Leone A

更新日期：2002-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) is a ubiquitous reactive oxygen species that can induce several inner ear disorders. In this study, we recorded the potassium (K) currents in acutely isolated inner hair cells of guinea pig cochlea, and investigated the effects of H₂O₂. We also observed the morphological changes in inner hair ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kimitsuki T,Komune N,Noda T,Takaiwa K,Ohashi M,Komune S

更新日期：2010-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial cell-line neurotrophic factor (GDNF), a neurotrophic factor with heparin binding affinity, promotes the survival and differentiation of a variety of neuronal cells including dopaminergic neuron. The effect of heparin on GDNF signaling was investigated based on the expression of the tyrosine hydroxyrase (TH) gene...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tanaka M,Xiao H,Kiuchi K

更新日期：2002-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no unifying hypothesis to account for the anatomical distribution of neuropathology, the involvement of beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta APP) and the role of increasing age in triggering the Alzheimer disease process. We report here that layer II pre-alpha neurones in transentorhinal and entorhinal cortex...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Roberts GW,Nash M,Ince PG,Royston MC,Gentleman SM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the retina, the activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) reduces the toxic effect of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA). We have induced NMDA-mediated excitotoxicity in the adult rat retina by a single intraocular injection of NMDA. The damage that resulted was estimated by assessing the NMDA-induced loss o...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Siliprandi R,Lipartiti M,Fadda E,Arban R,Kozikowski AP,Manev H

更新日期：1994-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans use vestibular head-in-space information when redirecting gaze towards remembered target location in space. This study shows that neck input is also involved. Normal subjects performed saccades towards remembered locations in space of a previously seen target following passive horizontal rotations of the head o...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mergner T,Nasios G,Anastasopoulos D

更新日期：1998-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) attracts considerable attention because it supports survival and differentiation of various types of neurons and glial cells in vitro. Although CNTF functions as a moderate neurotrophic factor in mature motor neurons, its role in embryonic development remains unknown. Here, we found ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Hata K,Araki M,Yamamori T

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied over the frontal eye field (FEF) and the supplementary eye field (SEF) regions before execution of the first saccade in a double step task. When applied over the FEF, stimulation increased the percentage error in amplitude of the contralateral second saccade as compa...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tobler PN,Müri RM

更新日期：2002-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted semiautomated, atlas-based analyses of regional brain volume changes on MRIs of children and adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) (N=15), DS with comorbid autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (N=15), and age-matched or sex-matched typically developing controls (N=22). Selective volumetric changes were correlated...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Carter JC,Capone GT,Kaufmann WE

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate how pheromonal information is processed in the rat accessory olfactory bulb, we optically imaged intrinsic signals to obtain high-resolution maps of activation induced by urinary stimulation. Application of volatile components in male urine mainly induced activation in the anterior accessory olfactory b...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Sugai T,Yoshimura H,Kato N,Onoda N

更新日期：2006-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although functional asymmetries in the course of visual information processing have been known for a long time in humans as well as in non-human species, the structural basis of these asymmetries is largely unknown. We now report that due to an asymmetry of commissural projections in the pigeon the left nucleus rotund...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Güntürkün O,Hellmann B,Melsbach G,Prior H

更新日期：1998-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to compare the whole-brain gray matter volume (GMV) and white matter volume (WMV) difference between primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) patients and health controls (HCs) using a voxel-based morphometry method. A total of 27 patients with PACG (17 males and 10 females) and 27 HCs (17 males and 10 fe...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jiang F,Zeng FF,Yu C,Ye YQ,Zeng XJ

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:There is disagreement in the literature as to whether smooth pursuit latency is reduced when a temporal gap is introduced between the extinction of a central fixation target and the illumination of an eccentric moving target. This study confirms that in human subjects smooth pursuit latency is reduced by gaps and that...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Knox PC

更新日期：1998-03-30 00:00:00