Observing the touched body magnified alters somatosensory homunculus.

abstract：:Cell death by apoptosis occurs in mature neurones of adult rat dentate gyrus following adrenalectomy. In these studies, apoptosis in the dentate gyrus was induced 3 days after adrenalectomy in male Fischer 344 rats ranging in age from 2-3 to 24-26 months. Glial fibrillary acidic protein and transforming growth factor-...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bye N,Nichols NR

更新日期：1998-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the neural substrate of anticipation and learning of smooth pursuit eye movements in humans using fMRI. Both predictable and non-predictable eye movements, compared to baseline, activated a common network previously associated with oculomotor function. The temporal dynamics of activity in a subset of these ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Schmid A,Rees G,Frith C,Barnes G

更新日期：2001-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We used positron emission tomography to investigate whether tactile motion discrimination activates the dorsal visual stream in congenitally blind (CB) participants compared with sighted controls. The tactile stimuli consisted of either static dots, dots moving coherently in one of two possible directions, or in rando...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ptito M,Matteau I,Gjedde A,Kupers R

更新日期：2009-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channel has been found to be expressed in a variety of tissues over the last few years, including the central nervous system (CNS). However, the distribution of TRPV1 in the CNS remains a controversial question. Here, we reveal that the expression of TRPV1 can be detect...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Huang WX,Min JW,Liu YQ,He XH,Peng BW

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with left visual neglect after right hemisphere lesions were examined with a line bisection and a reading task under five different conditions: head and trunk straight ahead, head or trunk oriented 20 degrees to the left and head or trunk oriented 20 degrees to the right. Fixation was always straight ahe...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Schindler I,Kerkhoff G

更新日期：1997-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversion of attention from a primary goal by irrelevant events is known as attention capture, and is often followed by a directed action. The hypothesis that corticospinal excitability is modulated by attention capture was tested using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Participants watched a video while sounds w...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mock JR,Foundas AL,Golob EJ

更新日期：2011-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the significance of glutamate ionotropic receptors in sPLA -mediated neuronal cell death we used the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 and the AMPA receptor antagonist PNQX. In primary neuronal cell cultures both MK-801 and PNQX inhibited sPLA - and glutamate-induced neuronal death. [ H]Arachidonic acid releas...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kolko M,de Turco EB,Diemer NH,Bazan NG

更新日期：2002-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to identify age-related changes of P300 peak amplitude and P300 latency between closely separated nonsenile age groups (late young-aged adults and early middle-aged adults) and to investigate whether or not P300 has the potential to be used as a measure of cognitive aging even among nonsenile...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bourisly AK

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the reactive cytoskeletal changes following physical damage to axons in the rodent neocortex and compared these with the earliest neuronal alterations seen in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Insertion of a 25 gauge needle into the rodent somatosensory cortex resulted in ring- and club-like axonal changes cha...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： King CE,Jacobs I,Dickson TC,Vickers JC

更新日期：1997-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition, the process that overrides and reverses the execution of a thought, action, or emotion, is important in daily life. Sixteen healthy volunteers performed a parametrically modulated motor inhibition task during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Two results were observed: (1) increased error-related ante...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Matthews SC,Simmons AN,Arce E,Paulus MP

更新日期：2005-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined differences in brain activity in response to two types of mechanical stimulation, which have been reported previously as being perceptually indistinguishable but having different impacts on autonomic reflexes. As an indicator of brain activity, glucose metabolism was evaluated by PET with 2-[F]fluoro-2-deo...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Watanabe N,Ishii K,Hotta H,Oda K,Sakata M,Toyohara J,Ishiwata K

更新日期：2013-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to compare mismatch responses between hemispheres to changes in sound-source direction. Sixteen adults listened passively to two types of complex non-language sounds presented in separate blocks with midline standards and right- and left-lateralized deviants. Mismatch dipole ampli...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kaiser J,Lutzenberger W,Birbaumer N

更新日期：2000-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual regularities have been investigated intensely in music research but to a lesser extent in speech research possibly because of its irregular nature. People tend to rhythmize almost every given acoustic input though, even if one stimulus is physically identical to the next. Hence, perception of regularities s...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Schmidt-Kassow M,Kotz SA

更新日期：2009-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective degeneration of hypothalamic orexin neurons, a hallmark of pathology in narcolepsy patients, is in part reproduced in hypothalamic slice cultures by application of an endogenous excitotoxin quinolinic acid. Depolarized membrane potential may be responsible for the vulnerability of orexin neurons to excitotox...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Katsuki H,Akaike A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered glutamate signaling is associated with Parkinson's disease. To study the involvement of the cystine/glutamate antiporter in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease, we developed new polyclonal antibodies recognizing xCT, the specific subunit of this antiporter. The striatal xCT protein expression level was inv...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Massie A,Schallier A,Mertens B,Vermoesen K,Bannai S,Sato H,Smolders I,Michotte Y

更新日期：2008-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:For the majority of neurones in cat striate cortex, the response to an optimal stimulus presented to one eye is suppressed when a stimulus of substantially different orientation is presented to the other eye. In order to determine the true orientational tuning of the underlying inhibitory interactions in the absence o...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Sengpiel F,Freeman TC,Blakemore C

更新日期：1995-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbate and glutathione (GSH) are the primary water-soluble antioxidants in the CNS. Oxidative stress, sometimes indicated by loss of these antioxidants, has been linked to several clinical and experimental conditions, including cerebral ischemia. These conditions are also gender-linked, with greater incidence or se...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ferris DC,Kume-Kick J,Russo-Menna I,Rice ME

更新日期：1995-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A lexical decision experiment was conducted while event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. The word frequency and the first syllable frequency of each word were manipulated. Results showed that, while high frequency words produced less negative amplitudes in the N400 time window than low frequency words, the inv...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Barber H,Vergara M,Carreiras M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been repeatedly demonstrated that schizophrenic patients are impaired in the comprehension of sentences with complex syntax. We investigated the hypothesis that this syntactic comprehension impairment in schizophrenia is not a purely linguistic dysfunction, but rather the reflection of a cognitive sequence proc...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lelekov T,Franck N,Dominey PF,Georgieff N

更新日期：2000-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine motor imagery ability in patients with peripheral nerve disorder using the hand mental rotation task. Five patients with left total avulsion brachial plexus palsy (BPP) and 16 healthy age-matched adults participated in this study. The mean±SD time from the injury was 103.6±49.7...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Date S,Kurumadani H,Yoshimura M,Fukae A,Onishi K,Hayashi J,Shinomiya R,Sunagawa T

更新日期：2019-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Subpopulations of olfactory receptor neurons, which are dispersed throughout the olfactory neuroepithelium, express specific cell surface carbohydrates and project to discrete regions of the olfactory bulb. Cell surface carbohydrates such as N-acetyl-lactosamine have been postulated to mediate sorting and selective fa...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Puche AC,Bartlett PF,Key B

更新日期：1997-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although decision-making is typically seen as a rational process, emotions play a role in tasks that include unfairness. Recently, activation in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during offers experienced as unfair in the Ultimatum Game was suggested to subserve goal maintenance in this task. This is restricted...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： van 't Wout M,Kahn RS,Sanfey AG,Aleman A

更新日期：2005-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Involuntary eye movements to foveal stimulation were measured in a monkey while it performed a fixation task. Second-order plaid motion generated higher velocities of eye movements than did first-order gratings, yet the latency of the early following response was no different for grating or plaid motion. Nevertheless,...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Guo K,Benson PJ

更新日期：1999-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is an effective regimen for neuroprotection in ischemic stroke. Exosomes are extracellular vesicles released into the blood, where they can transfer signals throughout the body. Several studies have demonstrated that RIPC leads to many changes in circulating exosomes. However, th...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Li Y,Ren C,Li H,Jiang F,Wang L,Xia C,Ji X

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience affects how brains respond to sound. Here, we examined how the sensitivity and selectivity of auditory cortical neuronal responses were affected in adult rats by the repeated presentation of a complex sound that was paired with basal forebrain stimulation. The auditory cortical region that was responsive to...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mercado E,Bao S,Orduña I,Gluck MA,Merzenich MM

更新日期：2001-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that antidepressants such as desipramine (DMI) induce axonal regeneration of brain noradrenergic neurons. In the present experiments, the role of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in the regeneration of brain noradrenergic axons was studied. Symmetrical sites of the rat frontal cortex were pretreated...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Nakamura S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on a 9-year-old girl who developed West syndrome and showed clinical features fulfilling the main revised diagnostic criteria for typical Rett syndrome (hand washing, severe cognitive impairment with absence of language, ataxic gait, progressive scoliosis and autistic features). Mutation analyses fo...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Romaniello R,Saettini F,Panzeri E,Arrigoni F,Bassi MT,Borgatti R

更新日期：2015-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of an ischaemic focal cortical lesion on the excitability of surrounding and remote brain areas was investigated. Infarcts were produced photothrombotically in rat frontal cortex and brain excitability was assessed by a extracellular paired-pulse stimulation in coronal slices 7 days later. The cortical lesi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Buchkremer-Ratzmann I,Witte OW

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a guessing paradigm we measured visual sensitivity in the blind and normal half-fields of four cerebrally hemidecorticated patients. In the blind field, sensitivity was reduced by approximately 3 long units. Stimuli which produced significant detection also evoked conscious sensations of light and colour. Contro...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Stoerig P,Faubert J,Ptito M,Diaconu V,Ptito A

更新日期：1996-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntingtin, the protein product of the Huntington's disease gene, associates with vesicle membranes and microtubules in neurons. Analysis of axonal transport with a stop-flow, double crush ligation approach in rat sciatic nerve showed that full length huntingtin (350 kDa) and an N-terminal cleavage product (50 kD) wer...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Block-Galarza J,Chase KO,Sapp E,Vaughn KT,Vallee RB,DiFiglia M,Aronin N

更新日期：1997-07-07 00:00:00