Does the parietal cortex distinguish between "10," "ten," and ten dots?

abstract：:Neuroscientific findings are rarely translated into public policies that improve the health and well-being of people experiencing serious disorders. I advocate here for investment in policymaker-scientist networks dedicated to such translation for a range of diseases. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Humphreys K

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Declarative memories are thought to be stored within anatomically distributed neuronal networks requiring the hippocampus; however, it is unclear how neocortical areas participate in memory at the time of encoding. Here, we use a c-fos-based genetic tagging system to selectively express the channelrhodopsin variant, C...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cowansage KK,Shuman T,Dillingham BC,Chang A,Golshani P,Mayford M

更新日期：2014-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:During synaptic development, proteins aggregate at specialized pre- and postsynaptic structures. Mechanisms that mediate protein clustering at these sites remain unknown. To investigate this process, we analyzed synaptic targeting of a postsynaptic density protein, PSD-95, by expressing green fluorescent protein- (GFP...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Craven SE,El-Husseini AE,Bredt DS

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immediate early gene Arc (also Arg3.1) produces rapid changes in synaptic properties that are linked to de novo translation. Here we develop a novel translation reporter that exploits the rapid maturation and "flash" kinetics of Gaussia luciferase (Gluc) to visualize Arc translation. Following glutamate stimulatio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Na Y,Park S,Lee C,Kim DK,Park JM,Sockanathan S,Huganir RL,Worley PF

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostatic mechanisms stabilize neuronal activity in vivo, but whether this process gives rise to balanced network dynamics is unknown. Here, we continuously monitored the statistics of network spiking in visual cortical circuits in freely behaving rats for 9 days. Under control conditions in light and dark, networks...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ma Z,Turrigiano GG,Wessel R,Hengen KB

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine D3 receptor is expressed primarily in regions of the brain that are thought to influence motivation and motor functions. To specify in vivo D3 receptor function, we generated mutant mice lacking this receptor. Our analysis indicates that in a novel environment, D3 mutant mice are transiently more active t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xu M,Koeltzow TE,Santiago GT,Moratalla R,Cooper DC,Hu XT,White NM,Graybiel AM,White FJ,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local neuronal networks that are responsible for walking are poorly characterized in mammals. Using an innovative approach to identify interneuron inputs onto motorneuron populations in a neonatal rodent spinal cord preparation, we have investigated the network responsible for left-right coordination of the hindlimbs....

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Butt SJ,Kiehn O

更新日期：2003-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin remodeling by histone deacetylases (HDACs) is a key mechanism regulating behavioral adaptations to cocaine use. We report here that cocaine and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) signaling induce the transient nuclear accumulation of HDAC5 in rodent striatum. We show that cAMP-stimulated nuclear import of...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Taniguchi M,Carreira MB,Smith LN,Zirlin BC,Neve RL,Cowan CW

更新日期：2012-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission is bioenergetically demanding, and the diverse processes underlying synaptic plasticity elevate these demands. Therefore, mitochondrial functions, including ATP synthesis and Ca2+ handling, are likely essential for plasticity. Although axonal mitochondria have been extensively analyzed, LTP is pr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Divakaruni SS,Van Dyke AM,Chandra R,LeGates TA,Contreras M,Dharmasri PA,Higgs HN,Lobo MK,Thompson SM,Blanpied TA

更新日期：2018-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A circadian clock regulates a number of diverse physiological functions in the vertebrate eye. In this study, we show that mRNA for the red-sensitive cone pigment, iodopsin, fluctuates with a circadian rhythm in chicken retina. Transcript levels increase in the late afternoon just prior to the time of cone disc sheddi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pierce ME,Sheshberadaran H,Zhang Z,Fox LE,Applebury ML,Takahashi JS

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human vision adapts to the contrast of patterns by changing its sensitivity, but the origins of this perceptual adaptation have been disputed. In this issue of Neuron, Solomon et al. show that contrast adaptation in the primate arises mostly in the retina for the magnocellular pathway and mostly in the cortex for the ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Baccus SA,Meister M

更新日期：2004-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:GABA(B) (gamma-aminobutyric acid type B) receptors are important for keeping neuronal excitability under control. Cloned GABA(B) receptors do not show the expected pharmacological diversity of native receptors and it is unknown whether they contribute to pre- as well as postsynaptic functions. Here, we demonstrate tha...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schuler V,Lüscher C,Blanchet C,Klix N,Sansig G,Klebs K,Schmutz M,Heid J,Gentry C,Urban L,Fox A,Spooren W,Jaton AL,Vigouret J,Pozza M,Kelly PH,Mosbacher J,Froestl W,Käslin E,Korn R,Bischoff S,Kaupmann K,van der

更新日期：2001-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Rostrocaudal polarity of the tectum is first detectable at embryonic day 2 (E2) in the chick by the rostrocaudal gradient of en expression. When ectopic tectum is produced by heterotopic transplantation at E2 in the diencephalon, the gradient of en expression is inverted from the host polarity by environmental influen...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Itasaki N,Nakamura H

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we define activities of RIM-binding protein (RBP) that are essential for baseline neurotransmission and presynaptic homeostatic plasticity. At baseline, rbp mutants have a ∼10-fold decrease in the apparent Ca(2+) sensitivity of release that we attribute to (1) impaired presynaptic Ca(2+) influx, (2) looser coupli...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Müller M,Genç Ö,Davis GW

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The developing retina generates spontaneous glutamatergic (stage III) waves of activity that sequentially recruit neighboring ganglion cells with opposite light responses (ON and OFF RGCs). This activity pattern is thought to help establish parallel ON and OFF pathways in downstream visual areas. The circuits that pro...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Akrouh A,Kerschensteiner D

更新日期：2013-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders such as Rett syndrome (RTT) have been hypothesized to arise from defects in experience-dependent synapse maturation. RTT is caused by mutations in MECP2, a nuclear protein that becomes phosphorylated at S421 in response to neuronal activation. We show here that disruption of MeCP2 S421 phosph...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cohen S,Gabel HW,Hemberg M,Hutchinson AN,Sadacca LA,Ebert DH,Harmin DA,Greenberg RS,Verdine VK,Zhou Z,Wetsel WC,West AE,Greenberg ME

更新日期：2011-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate rod and cone photoreceptors hyperpolarize when illuminated. However, synaptic input from horizontal cells can depolarize cones and even elicit action potentials. Using the whole-cell tight-seal recording technique, we determined that, in solitary cones isolated from a lizard retina, action potentials can be...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Maricq AV,Korenbrot JI

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in connectomics have led to a synthesis of perspectives regarding the brain's functional organization that reconciles classical concepts of localized specialization with an appreciation for properties that emerge from interactions across distributed functional networks. This provides a more comprehensi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Matthews PM,Hampshire A

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The anterior insular cortex (AIC) and its unique spindle-shaped von Economo neuron (VEN) emerged within the last decade as having a potentially major role in self-awareness and social cognition in humans. Invasive examination of the VEN has been precluded so far by the assumption that this neuron occurs among primates...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Evrard HC,Forro T,Logothetis NK

更新日期：2012-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the innervation of limb muscles by spinal motor neurons have helped to define mechanisms by which axons establish trajectories to their targets. Related motor axons select dorsal or ventral pathways at the base of the limb, raising the question of how these alternate trajectories are specified. EphA signali...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Luria V,Krawchuk D,Jessell TM,Laufer E,Kania A

更新日期：2008-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Ajemian et al. present a computational model of the activity of neurons in primary motor cortex (M1) during isometric movements in different postures. By modeling the output of M1 neurons in terms of their influence on muscles, they find each M1 neuron maps its output into a particular pattern...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pesaran B,Movshon JA

更新日期：2008-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of electrotonic coupling in the inferior olive is extremely high, but its functional role in cerebellar motor control remains elusive. Here, we subjected mice that lack olivary coupling to paradigms that require learning-dependent timing. Cx36-deficient mice showed impaired timing of both locomotion and eye-...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Van Der Giessen RS,Koekkoek SK,van Dorp S,De Gruijl JR,Cupido A,Khosrovani S,Dortland B,Wellershaus K,Degen J,Deuchars J,Fuchs EC,Monyer H,Willecke K,De Jeu MT,De Zeeuw CI

更新日期：2008-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely believed that the brain performs approximate probabilistic inference to estimate causal variables in the world from ambiguous sensory data. To understand these computations, we need to analyze how information is represented and transformed by the actions of nonlinear recurrent neural networks. We propose ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pitkow X,Angelaki DE

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of GABAergic inhibitory circuits is shaped by neural activity, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Here, we demonstrate a novel function of GABA in regulating GABAergic innervation in the adolescent brain, when GABA is mainly known as an inhibitory transmitter. Conditional knockdown of the rate-...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chattopadhyaya B,Di Cristo G,Wu CZ,Knott G,Kuhlman S,Fu Y,Palmiter RD,Huang ZJ

更新日期：2007-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The targeting of sensory afferent neurons in the leech CNS occurs in two discrete steps that are mediated via different carbohydrate recognitions, as shown by molecular perturbations of cultured embryos. A constitutive carbohydrate marker that is generic to all of these neurons mediates their initial defasciculation a...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Song J,Zipser B

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMDA receptors are tetrameric ligand-gated ion channels comprised of GluN1, GluN2, and GluN3 subunits. Two different GluN2 subunits have been identified in most NMDA receptor-expressing cells, and the majority of native receptors are triheteromers containing two GluN1 and two different GluN2. In contrast to diheterome...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hansen KB,Ogden KK,Yuan H,Traynelis SF

更新日期：2014-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau, tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (ptau), and Aβ₄₂ are established biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and have been used as quantitative traits for genetic analyses. We performed the largest genome-wide association study for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau/ptau levels published to d...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cruchaga C,Kauwe JS,Harari O,Jin SC,Cai Y,Karch CM,Benitez BA,Jeng AT,Skorupa T,Carrell D,Bertelsen S,Bailey M,McKean D,Shulman JM,De Jager PL,Chibnik L,Bennett DA,Arnold SE,Harold D,Sims R,Gerrish A,Williams J

更新日期：2013-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Feedback is a ubiquitous anatomical feature of sensory processing in vertebrates. In this issue of Neuron, two papers (Boyd et al., 2012, and Markopoulos et al., 2012) analyze the features of feedback from olfactory cortex to olfactory bulb. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Oswald AM,Urban NN

更新日期：2012-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Issler et al. (2020) have identified the neuronal, long intergenic noncoding RNA LINC00473 as a potential molecular risk factor for the increased susceptibility for depression in females. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gururajan A

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We induced and characterized a recessive lethal mutation, nic-1, in zebrafish that blocks the function of muscle acetylcholine (ACh) receptors. Homozygous nic-1 embryos are nonmotile and fail to respond to exogenous application of cholinergic agonists, although their muscles contract in response to direct electrical s...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Westerfield M,Liu DW,Kimmel CB,Walker C

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00