Analysis of sensory coding with complex stimuli.

abstract：:Genetically encoded sensors of neural activity enable visualization of circuit-level function in the central nervous system. Although our understanding of the molecular events that regulate neuronal firing, synaptic function, and plasticity has expanded rapidly over the past 15 years, an appreciation for how cellular ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Barth AL

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of plasticity in the central nervous system is a major and very dynamic neuroscience research field with enormous clinical potential. Considerable advances in this field have been made during the past 10 years. It now appears that most circuits in the brain and spinal cord show plasticity and that they can b...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Schouenborg J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow waves, the hallmark of NREM (Non Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, are not uniformly distributed across the cortical surface, but can occur locally and asynchronously across brain regions. Their regional distribution and amplitude is affected by brain maturation and by time spent awake, mediated in part by experience-de...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Siclari F,Tononi G

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and physiological evidence has suggested that myosins, both conventional and unconventional, are critical for neurosensory activities. In the past few years, this premise has been supported by genetic evidence that has shown that unconventional myosins are essential for the proper functioning of neurons, r...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hasson T,Mooseker MS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand how brain activity produces adaptive behavior we need large-scale, high-resolution recordings of neuronal activity. Fluorescent genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) offer the potential for these recordings to be performed chronically from targeted cells in a minimally invasive manner. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Platisa J,Pieribone VA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for quantifiable biological mediators of genetic risk or 'intermediate phenotypes' is an essential strategy in psychiatric neuroscience and a useful tool for exploring the complex relationships between genes, neural circuits and behaviors. In recent years, the examination of connectivity-based intermediate ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Cao H,Dixson L,Meyer-Lindenberg A,Tost H

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aging peripheral nervous system (PNS) is prone to a number of disorders, including the development of neuropathies and increased regenerative failure. Although the basic mechanisms of the aging PNS are still rather murky, recent work has revealed that 'old' Schwann cells acquire a number of dysfunctions in mammals...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Painter MW

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crustacean stomatogastric nervous system is a long-standing test bed for studies of circuit dynamics and neuromodulation. We give a brief update on the most recent work on this system, with an emphasis on the broader implications for understanding neural circuits. In particular, we focus on new findings underlinin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Daur N,Nadim F,Bucher D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years, it has been postulated that interactions between motor commands and somatic perception in the sensorimotor cortices exist, but they have been difficult to demonstrate. Recent studies have made demonstration of this interaction easier and suggest that cortical activity related to somatic sensation and p...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Nelson RJ

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal tract is innervated by its own enteric nervous system and by extrinsic neurons that connect it with the central nervous system. Innervation allows the gastrointestinal tract to sense and respond to diverse stimuli, adjusting motility and secretion, but also affecting our physiology, behaviour and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Ameku T,Beckwith H,Blackie L,Miguel-Aliaga I

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropeptide oxytocin has had key roles throughout mammalian evolution in the regulation of complex social cognition and behaviors, such as attachment, parental care, pair-bonding, as well as social exploration and recognition. Recently, studies have begun to provide evidence that the function of this neuropeptide...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kumsta R,Heinrichs M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent series of exciting observations, using novel high-resolution time-lapse imaging of living cells, has provoked a major shift in our understanding of the dendritic spine, from a stable storage site of long-term memory to a dynamic structure that undergoes rapid morphological variations. Through these recent obs...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Segal M,Andersen P

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial interactions are prominent behaviors in primates. Primate facial signaling, which includes the expression of emotions, mimicking of facial movements, and gaze interactions, is visually dominated. Correspondingly, in primate brains an elaborate network of face processing areas exists within visual cortex. But ot...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Brecht M,Freiwald WA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that endocannabinoids act as retrograde messengers at many synapses in the central nervous system. Activation of phospholipases, either through calcium-mediated or receptor-mediated signaling, leads to the formation and release of endocannabinoids. These lipophilic signaling molecules diffuse to...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kreitzer AC,Regehr WG

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural oscillations are ubiquitous in olfactory systems of mammals, insects and molluscs. Neurophysiological and computational investigations point to common mechanisms for gamma or odor associated oscillations across phyla (40-100Hz in mammals, 20-30Hz in insects, 0.5-1.5Hz in molluscs), engaging the reciprocal dendr...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kay LM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane Cl- channels perform a variety of functions, including control of excitability in neurons and muscle, cell volume regulation and transepithelial transport. Structurally, three classes of Cl- channels have been identified: ligand-gated, postsynaptic Cl- channels (e.g. GABA and glycine receptors); the cy...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Jentsch TJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echolocating bats exhibit accurate three-dimensional (3D) auditory localization to avoid obstacles and intercept prey. The bat achieves high spatial resolution through a biological sonar system. Key features of the bat's sonar system are (1) high frequency, directional echolocation signals; (2) high frequency hearing;...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wohlgemuth MJ,Luo J,Moss CF

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glial regulation of synaptic function provides important modulation of the synaptic and behavioral changes induced by drugs of abuse. In some cases, this regulation is adaptive, reducing drug-induced change, and in other cases maladaptive, contributing to the induction or maintenance of these changes. Understandin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Stellwagen D,Kemp GM,Valade S,Chambon J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used widely to determine the spatial layout of brain activation associated with specific cognitive tasks at a spatial scale of millimeters. Recent methodological improvements have made it possible to determine the latency and temporal structure of the activation at a tem...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Formisano E,Goebel R

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, developmental neuroscience has been transformed by the widespread application of confocal and two-photon fluorescence microscopy. Even greater progress is imminent, as recent innovations in microscopy now enable imaging with increased depth, speed, and spatial resolution; reduced phototoxicity; a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wu Y,Christensen R,Colón-Ramos D,Shroff H

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is often associated with cognitive deficits, particularly within the domains of memory and language. Specific cognitive deficits have recently been linked to psychotic phenomena, including verbal hallucinations and disorganized speech. Impairments of working and semantic memory are primarily due to dysfu...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kuperberg G,Heckers S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the central nervous system (CNS) development has been strongly enhanced by the recent progress of single-cell multiomics approaches. Certainly, the multiplex profiling of individual cell epigenomes and transcriptomes together with dynamic lineage tracing systems brings encouraging new perspectives...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Solanelles-Farré L,Telley L

更新日期：2020-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Coupled oscillations are hypothesized to organize the processing of information across distributed brain circuits. This idea is supported by recent evidence, and newly developed techniques promise to put such theoretical framework to mechanistic testing. We review evidence suggesting that individual oscillatory cycles...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wilson MA,Varela C,Remondes M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroscience research has become increasingly reliant upon quantitative and computational data analysis and modeling techniques. However, the vast majority of neuroscientists are still trained within the traditional biology curriculum, in which computational and quantitative approaches beyond elementary statistics may...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Goldman MS,Fee MS

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing axons appear to navigate to their targets partly in response to long-range diffusible chemoattractants secreted by target cells. The past year has seen the identification of the first target-derived attractants for developing axons, the netrins. Target-derived diffusible factors have also been implicated in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kennedy TE,Tessier-Lavigne M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical networks receive a highly variable stream of inputs from internal and external influences, and must flexibly adapt their operations on a short timescale. Recent work has highlighted this state-dependent functional flexibility of cortical circuits and provided initial insights into underlying circuit-level mec...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Cardin JA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory neurons are usually described with an encoding model, for example, a function that predicts their response from the sensory stimulus using a receptive field (RF) or a tuning curve. However, central to theories of sensory processing is the notion of 'efficient coding'. We argue here that efficient coding implie...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Deneve S,Chalk M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past year, our knowledge of neurotransmitter transporters has increased significantly. Recently, new members of two families of plasma membrane uptake carriers have been cloned, and the stoichiometries, physiological function and mechanisms of modulation of some of these transporters are now better understood. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Attwell D,Mobbs P

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of complex human diseases has been spurred by the number of published genomic sequence variants - many identified in the course of sequencing the human genome. But, to be useful for genetic analysis, variants have to be mapped accurately, their frequencies in various populations determined, and automated ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Nowotny P,Kwon JM,Goate AM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of movement relies on the precision with which motor circuits are assembled during development. Spinal motor neurons (MNs) provide the trigger to signal the appropriate sequence of muscle contractions and initiate movement. This task is accommodated by the diversification of MNs into discrete subpopulation...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dalla Torre di Sanguinetto SA,Dasen JS,Arber S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00