Intrinsic and synaptic plasticity in the vestibular system.

abstract：:The microcircuitry of the neocortex is bewildering in its anatomical detail, but seen through the filters of physiology, some simple circuits have been suggested. Intensive investigations of the cortical representation of orientation, however, show how difficult it is to achieve any consensus on what the circuits are,...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Martin KA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic-nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels play key roles in photoreceptor and olfactory signal-transduction pathways. Recent studies have focused on the molecular characterization of CNG channel subunits and on the identification of the structural domains that contribute to ligand selectivity and affinity, ion gating and...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Molday RS

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of motor behaviour depends on the differentiation of underlying circuitry. Recent work with the zebrafish brings the simple swimming behaviour of lower vertebrates and their embryos into focus as a suitable model to study the development of motor circuitry and its genetic control. Changes in connectivi...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bate M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What I cannot create I do not understand - Richard Feynman 1978 Because primate cortical development exhibits numerous specific features, the mouse is an imperfect model for human cortical development. Expansion of supragranular neurons is an evolutionary feature characterizing the primate cortex. Increased production...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kennedy H,Wianny F,Dehay C

更新日期：2020-10-21 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：:The analysis of stimulus/response patterns using information theoretic approaches requires the full probability distribution of stimuli and response. Recent progress in using information-based tools to understand circuit function has advanced understanding of neural coding at the single cell and population level. In a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Fairhall A,Shea-Brown E,Barreiro A

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:The inability to reliably express foreign proteins in postmitotic neurons has hampered numerous studies in the field of neurobiology. Within the past several years, a number of viral vectors that overcome this problem under controlled conditions in vitro have been developed. In particular, recombinant adenoviruses hav...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Slack RS,Miller FD

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual and control systems are tasked with the challenge of accurately and efficiently estimating the dynamic states of objects in the environment. To properly account for uncertainty, it is necessary to maintain a dynamical belief state representation rather than a single state vector. In this review, canonical a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lee DD,Ortega PA,Stocker AA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroeconomics is an interdisciplinary field, crossing boundaries between Economics, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Its original program was to provide a test for a large number of competitive theories of decision making. It has in part realized this program, and we review the main findings here. But its results are al...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rustichini A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult mammalian neocortex, the major region of the cerebral cortex, is divided into functionally specialized areas, defined by distinct architecture and axonal connections. Extrinsic influences, such as thalamocortical input, and genetic regulation, intrinsic to the dorsal telencephalon, control the gradual emerge...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： O'Leary DD,Nakagawa Y

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNA localization and regulated translation take central roles in axon guidance and synaptic plasticity. By spatially restricting gene expression within neurons, local protein synthesis provides growth cones and synapses with the capacity to autonomously regulate their structure and function. Studies in a variety of s...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Martin KC

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:Neocortex expansion in development and evolution reflects an increased and prolonged activity of neural progenitor cells. Insight into key aspects of the underlying cell biology has recently been obtained. First, the restriction of apical progenitors to undergo mitosis at the ventricular surface is overcome by generat...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wilsch-Bräuninger M,Florio M,Huttner WB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, eye positions were characterized by the direction of sight, which has two degrees of freedom for conjugate movements and three degrees of freedom for vergent movements. Several groups have recently presented reliable data and unconventional models on binocular coordination, where all three degrees of freed...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hepp K

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral line system is simple (comprising six cell types), its sense organs form according to a defined and reproducible pattern, and its neurons are easily visualized. In the zebrafish, these advantages can be combined with a wealth of genetic tools, making this system ideally suited to a combined molecular, cell...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Ghysen A,Dambly-Chaudière C

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Sex steroid hormones exert a profound influence on the sexual differentiation and function of the neural circuits that mediate dimorphic behaviors. Both estrogen and testosterone are essential for male typical behaviors in many species. Recent studies with genetically modified mice provide important new insights into ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wu MV,Shah NM

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate neural crest cell (NCC) migration requires tight control of cell adhesions, cytoskeletal dynamics and cell motility. Cadherins and RhoGTPases are critical molecular players that regulate adhesions and motility during initial delamination of NCCs from the neuroepithelium. Recent studies have revealed multiple ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Clay MR,Halloran MC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Auditory scenes' often contain contributions from multiple acoustic sources. These are usually heard as separate auditory 'streams', which can be selectively followed over time. How and where these auditory streams are formed in the auditory system is one of the most fascinating questions facing auditory scientists t...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Shamma SA,Micheyl C

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:Glioblastoma (GBM) are aggressive and therapy-resistant brain tumours driven by glioma stem-like cells (GSCs). GSC behaviour is controlled by the microenvironment, or niche, in which the cells reside. It is well-established that the vasculature is a key component of the GSC niche, which drives maintenance in the tumou...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Brooks LJ,Parrinello S

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the neurobiological processes involved in achieving successful abstinence from drugs of abuse. While there is clinical and public health value in knowing if the deficits associated with drug use correct with abstinence, studying the neurobiology that underlies successful abstinence can also illu...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Garavan H,Brennan KL,Hester R,Whelan R

更新日期：2013-08-01 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

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a recently discovered, extensive class of small noncoding RNAs that act as post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. miRNAs have been implicated in most aspects of animal development and in pathological processes such as cancer. In neurons, miRNAs are expressed at all stages of develop...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Schratt G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years pathophysiological studies on patients with movement disorders were viewed as inferior to those in animal models because, given the complexity of dealing with the complete interconnected CNS, it was difficult to assign any particular physiological abnormality exclusively to the site of a known lesion. M...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rothwell JC,Huang YZ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception, action, cognition, and emotion can now be mapped in the brain by a growing family of techniques. Positron emission tomography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, event-related electrical potentials, event-related magnetic fields, and other non-invasive imaging techniques are rapidly evolving and provid...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Fox PT,Woldorff MG

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the few animal groups that learn their vocalizations, songbirds are uniquely amenable to molecular, physiological, and behavioral analyses of the neural features responsible for vocal learning. In order to communicate effectively as an adult, a young songbird recognizes and memorizes a model of his species-specific...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： White SA

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term imprinting is used to refer to biologically relevant learning during a sensitive period defined by a particular developmental stage or physiological state. Although olfactory imprinting may occur at any age, and some of the best-studied paradigms involve adult animals, recent reports of long-term memory for o...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hudson R

更新日期：1993-08-01 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