Chipping away at brain function: mining for insights with microarrays.

abstract：:Neurofilaments are proteins selectively expressed in the cytoskeleton of neurons, and increased levels are a marker of damage. Elevated neurofilament levels can serve as a marker of ongoing disease activity as well as a tool to measure response to therapeutic intervention. The potential utility of neurofilaments has d...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Gordon BA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bilaterally symmetric organisms, the midline is a critical organizing center for the developing central nervous system. There is a striking conservation of the molecules and mechanisms that control axon path finding at the midline in vertebrate and invertebrate nervous systems. The majority of axons in the CNS cros...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Evans TA,Bashaw GJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments have led to a greater insight into the complex processes of perception of visual motion. A better understanding of the neuronal circuitry involved and advances in electrophysiological techniques have allowed researchers to alter the perception of an animal with a stimulating electrode. In addition,...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Snowden RJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding history and the presence of food dramatically alter chemosensory behaviors. Recent results indicate that internal nutritional state can gate peripheral gustatory and olfactory sensory responses to affect behavior. Focusing primarily on recent work in C. elegans and Drosophila, I describe the neuromodulatory me...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sengupta P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototransduction in Drosophila's microvillar photoreceptors is mediated by phospholipase C (PLC) resulting in activation of two distinct Ca(2+)-permeable channels, TRP and TRPL. Here we review recent evidence on the unresolved mechanism of their activation, including the hypothesis that the channels are mechanically ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hardie RC,Juusola M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained activity has been recorded in the prefrontal cortex during working memory tasks. First, we compare the anatomical distribution of this activity in humans and monkeys. Then, we show that it reflects many factors, maintenance of the items presented, preparation for the response, transformation of the items dur...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Passingham D,Sakai K

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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：:This article reviews recent evidence suggesting that endogenous ciliary neurotrophic factor may be involved in neural responses to injury, and discusses the possibility that ciliary neurotrophic factor could have therapeutic applications in a clinical setting. The functional relevance of ciliary neurotrophic factor in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Adler R

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is a disorder of cognitive neurodevelopment. At least some of the core cognitive deficits of the illness appear to be the product of impaired gamma frequency oscillations which depend, in part, on the inhibitory actions of a subpopulation of cortical GABA neurons that express the calcium binding protein ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lewis DA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many regions of the brain, information is represented by patterns of activity occurring over populations of neurons. Understanding the encoding of information in neural population activity is important both for grasping the fundamental computations underlying brain function, and for interpreting signals that may be...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sanger TD

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A diverse group of biochemically distinct proteins give rise to amyloids, each of which is associated with a different disease. These amyloid proteins share numerous properties and typically arise from the abnormal processing of an amyloid precursor protein. The classification, mechanisms and biochemistry of amyloid f...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Castaño EM,Wisniewski T,Frangione B

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostatic synaptic plasticity remains an enigmatic form of synaptic plasticity. Increasing interest on the topic has fuelled a surge of recent studies that have identified key molecular players and the signaling pathways involved. However, the new findings also highlight our lack of knowledge concerning some of the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Vitureira N,Letellier M,Goda Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both mammals and birds can flexibly organize their behavior over time. In mammals, the mental operations generating this ability are called executive functions and are associated with the prefrontal cortex. The corresponding structure in birds is the nidopallium caudolaterale. Anatomical, neurochemical, electrophysiol...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Güntürkün O

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how the brain performs computations requires understanding neuronal firing patterns at successive levels of processing-a daunting and seemingly intractable task. Two recent studies have made dramatic progress on this problem by showing how its dimensionality can be reduced. Using the retina as a model sy...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Nirenberg SH,Victor JD

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of whether encoding of geometric information for navigational purposes crucially depends on environmental experience or whether it is innately predisposed in the brain has been recently addressed in controlled rearing studies. Non-human animals can make use of the geometric shape of an environment for spatia...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Vallortigara G,Sovrano VA,Chiandetti C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of laboratories have recently refined descriptions of temporal response properties, from the auditory periphery to the midbrain. At many levels of the auditory pathway, the role of inhibition in temporal coding of complex sounds is being explored. In addition, quantitative relationships between physiology and...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Carney LH

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:Molecular mechanisms involved in the various stages of transmitter secretion have been studied by perturbing the composition of secretory cells using pharmacological and biochemical agents. An emerging approach is to reconstitute individual steps or the entire sequence of secretion mechanisms in non-secretory cells by...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Alder J,Poo MM

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：:Research on spatial problem-solving over the past two years has linked the hippocampus to path integration, that is, the use of movement-related cues to guide spatial behavior. Path integration may underlie the forms of place learning that are impaired by hippocampal damage. It remains a challenge to determine whether...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Whishaw IQ,McKenna JE,Maaswinkel H

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise causal factors for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are not known, although, decades of research have honed in on the cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) circuitry in the brain as a critical pathway involved in obsessions and the intimately linked compulsive-repetitive behaviors. Recent progress in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Ting JT,Feng G

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have provided new insights into the role of presynaptic ligand-gated ion channels in modifying synaptic transmission. Along with a growing list of different types of presynaptic ionotropic receptors and the cell types that express them, there have been advances in characterizing the molecular components...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： McGehee DS,Role LW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive development is determined by both genetics and environment. One point of convergence of these two influences is the neural activity-dependent regulation of programs of gene expression that specify neuronal fate and function. Human genetic studies have linked several transcriptional regulators to neurodevelop...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hong EJ,West AE,Greenberg ME

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent functional brain imaging studies of the neurobiology of emotion have investigated how individual differences among subjects modulate neural responses during emotion processing. Differences in personality, dispositional affect, biological sex, and genotype can all substantially modulate the neural bases of emoti...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hamann S,Canli T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational models of reinforcement learning (RL) strive to produce behavior that maximises reward, and thus allow software or robots to behave adaptively [1]. At the core of RL models is a learned mapping between 'states'-situations or contexts that an agent might encounter in the world-and actions. A wealth of phy...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lau B,Monteiro T,Paton JJ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly systematic approaches to quantifying receptive fields in primary visual cortex, combined with inspired ideas about functional circuitry, non-linearities, and visual stimuli, are bringing new interest to classical problems. This includes the distinction and hierarchy between simple and complex cells, the m...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bair W

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major issue in development is to understand how local heterogeneities are interpreted to determine specific cell fates. The sense organs of Drosophila provide an accessible system for addressing this issue. Most sense organs comprise four types of cells, and their differentiation is the outcome of a complex developm...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Vervoort M,Dambly-Chaudière C,Ghysen A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic approaches at the neuromuscular synapse are leading investigation into the mechanisms of synaptogenesis. The marriage of classical (forward) and reverse genetic techniques allows the isolation and analysis of novel proteins involved in synaptic maturation and the functional in vivo characterization of previous...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Broadie K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reinforcement learning provides both qualitative and quantitative frameworks for understanding and modeling adaptive decision-making in the face of rewards and punishments. Here we review the latest dispatches from the forefront of this field, and map out some of the territories where lie monsters. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dayan P,Niv Y

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00