Microcircuits in visual cortex.

abstract：:Expression of vnd in ventral, ind in intermediate, and msh in dorsal columns of fly neurectoderm, and of homologous gene families in corresponding domains of vertebrate neurectoderm, suggests that elements of dorsoventral neural patterning have been evolutionarily conserved. However, upstream signaling pathways regula...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Cornell RA,Ohlen TV

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General anesthesia is a man-made neurophysiological state comprised of unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia, and immobility along with maintenance of physiological stability. Growing evidence suggests that anesthetic-induced neural oscillations are a primary mechanism of anesthetic action. Each anesthetic drug class pr...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Akeju O,Brown EN

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological systems use internal circadian clocks to efficiently organize physiological and behavioral activity within the 24-hour time domain. In the absence of time cues, circadian periods vary slightly from 24 hours, but in nature, ambient light serves as the most salient synchronizer for these rhythms, fine-tuning ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Davidson AJ,Menaker M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of genetic mutations linked to familial neurodegenerative diseases have made it possible to generate useful transgenic animal models. Studies using these transgenic animals indicate that many familial neurodegenerative diseases, such as motor neuron disease, Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases and trinu...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lee MK,Borchelt DR,Wong PC,Sisodia SS,Price DL

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight control of developmental timing is pivotal to many major processes in developmental biology, such as patterning, fate specification, cell cycle dynamics, cell migration and connectivity. Temporal change in these ontogenetic sequences is known as heterochrony, a major force in the evolution of body plans and orga...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bielen H,Pal S,Tole S,Houart C

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded protein response (UPR) comprises kinase signaling and transcription factor activation cascades delineated over the past 20 years. Most studies conclude that this stress response is adaptive but, nevertheless, includes maladaptive programs involving CHOP expression that drives cell-autonomous apoptosis. He...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Gow A,Wrabetz L

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the dynamic regulation of neuroligin isoforms, focusing on posttranslational events including phosphorylation, glycosylation and activity-dependent cleavage. There is a growing literature on how phosphorylation confers an isoform-specific level of modulation affecting a variety of protein interactio...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Jeong J,Paskus JD,Roche KW

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, as our understanding of the pattern-generating networks responsible for a variety of behaviors has increased, the interactions of multiple neural networks have been examined in a number of systems. These studies have shown that functionally related pattern generators can interact extensively, and that...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dickinson PS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review connects several lines of research to argue that hyperbolic geometry should be broadly applicable to neural circuits as well as other biological circuits. The reason for this is that networks that conform to hyperbolic geometry are maximally responsive to external and internal perturbations. These networks...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sharpee TO

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the seminal discoveries in developmental neuroscience is that altering visual experience through monocular deprivation can alter both the physiological and the anatomical representation of the two eyes, called ocular dominance columns, in primary visual cortex. This rearrangement is restricted to a critical per...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Feller MB,Scanziani M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus and at least two other unidentified central pacemakers regulate the temporal structure of a circadian network that involves almost every organ in the body. Phase control is central to the efficient function of this system. Individual circadian oscillators in tissues and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Menaker M,Murphy ZC,Sellix MT

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiome - the largest reservoir of microorganisms of the human body - is emerging as an important player in neurodevelopment and ageing as well as in brain diseases including stroke, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The growing knowledge on mediators and triggered pathways has advanced our under...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Benakis C,Martin-Gallausiaux C,Trezzi JP,Melton P,Liesz A,Wilmes P

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite considerable skepticism, researchers have found that the patterns of muscle activation that control feeding behaviors of lower vertebrates have been surprisingly conserved during evolution. This tendency for conservation among taxa appears in the face of marked flexibility of motor patterns within individuals....

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wainwright PC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical eyelid conditioning has been used to great advantage in demonstrating that the cerebellum helps to improve movements through experience, and in identifying the underlying mechanisms. Results from recent studies support the hypotheses that learning occurs in both the cerebellar nucleus and cortex, and that th...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Medina JF,Nores WL,Ohyama T,Mauk MD

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:For most neurons to function properly, they need to develop synaptic specificity. This requires finding specific partner neurons, building the correct types of synapses, and fine-tuning these synapses in response to neural activity. Synaptic specificity is common at both a neuron's input and output synapses, whereby u...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rawson RL,Martin EA,Williams ME

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of new data, anatomical and functional models of the basal ganglia in normal and pathological conditions (e.g. Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases) have recently come under greater scrutiny. An update of these models is clearly timely, taking into consideration not only changes in neuronal discharge rates, b...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wichmann T,DeLong MR

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of mechanosensory feedback to locomotion has been hindered by the challenge of recording neurons in motion. Genetic accessibility and optical transparency of zebrafish larvae provide means to revisit this question. Glutamatergic Rohon-Beard (RB) and GABAergic CSF-contacting neurons (CSF-cNs) are spin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Knafo S,Wyart C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data show that the ventral premotor cortex in both humans and monkeys has motor and cognitive functions. The cognitive functions include space perception, action understanding and imitation. The data also show a clear functional homology between monkey area F5 and human area 44. Preliminary evidence suggests th...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rizzolatti G,Fogassi L,Gallese V

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crucial role of dopamine (DA) in movement control is illustrated by the spectrum of motor disorders caused by either a deficiency or a hyperactivity of dopaminergic transmission in the basal ganglia. The degeneration of nigrostriatal DA neurons in Parkinson's disease causes poverty and slowness of movement. These ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Cenci MA,Lindgren HS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent autopsy and/or quantitative magnetic resonance imaging studies of autistic patients have identified agenesis of the superior olive, dysgenesis of the facial nucleus, reduced numbers of Purkinje neurons, hypoplasia of the brainstem and posterior cerebellum, and increased neuron-packing density of the medial, cor...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Courchesne E

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings suggest that cerebral laterality will not be understood in terms of simple dichotomies, such as the idea that the left hemisphere is analytic and the right holistic. Rather, hemisphere differences can be better explained in terms of relatively specific principles that extend over limited domains. For v...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Brown HD,Kosslyn SM

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, interest has grown in the ability to manipulate, in a temporally precise fashion, the electrical activity of specific neurons embedded within densely wired brain circuits, in order to reveal how specific neurons subserve behaviors and neural computations, and to open up new horizons on the clinical tr...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bernstein JG,Garrity PA,Boyden ES

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin sheaths in the vertebrate nervous system enable faster impulse propagation, while myelinating glia provide vital support to axons. Once considered a static insulator, converging evidence now suggests that myelin in the central nervous system can be dynamically regulated by neuronal activity and continues to par...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kaller MS,Lazari A,Blanco-Duque C,Sampaio-Baptista C,Johansen-Berg H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experiments on the retina have examined the effectiveness of various factors (e.g. growth factors, neurotrophins and cytokines) for enhancing survival and reducing injury of retinal neurons, such as photoreceptors and ganglion cells, whose death leads to blindness in degenerative retinal diseases. It has also b...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Steinberg RH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cadherin superfamily is a large (now more than 100 proteins) protein family originally identified as cell adhesion molecules. Each cadherin shows distinct expression patterns in the nervous system, and their expressions are both spatially and temporally regulated and diverse among different species. Mounting evide...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Matsunaga E,Okanoya K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory perception in the real world requires proper integration of different modality inputs. Process of multisensory integration is not uniform. It varies from individual to individual and changes at different behavioral states of the animal. What factors affect multisensory integration? How does the mammalian brain...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Choi I,Lee JY,Lee SH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost 30 years ago, actin was identified as the major cytoskeletal component of dendritic spines. Since then, its role in the remarkable dynamics of spine morphology have been detailed with live-cell views establishing that spine shape dynamics are an important requirement for synaptogenesis and synaptic plasticity. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Frost NA,Kerr JM,Lu HE,Blanpied TA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ionotropic GABA receptor (GABAAR) mediates fast inhibition in the brain. The GABAAR pore-forming (α, β, and non-α/β) subunits were isolated approximately 30 years ago and have since been the focus of extensive studies. As a result, many properties of GABAARs, including subunit assembly and channel and pharmacologi...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Tomita S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroscientists spent decades debating whether synaptic plasticity was presynaptically or postsynaptically expressed. It was eventually concluded that plasticity depends on many factors, including cell type. More recently, it has become increasingly clear that plasticity is regulated at an even finer grained level; it...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Larsen RS,Sjöström PJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00