Neuroeconomics: what have we found, and what should we search for.

abstract：:Priming is a nonconscious form of memory in which an encounter with a stimulus influences the subsequent identification, production or classification of the same or a related stimulus. Neuroimaging studies have revealed that behavioral priming is typically accompanied by reduced activity in several cortical regions. W...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Schacter DL,Wig GS,Stevens WD

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent flurry of genetic studies in mice have provided key insights into how the somatosensory system is organized at a cellular level to encode itch, pain, temperature, and touch. These studies are largely predicated on the idea that functional cell types can be identified by their unique developmental provenance a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Gatto G,Smith KM,Ross SE,Goulding M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now 15 years since the discovery that N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor activity is required to maintain the refined topographic organization of retinotectal projections. Recent studies have identified additional components of the signaling pathways required for activity-dependent map formation and maintenance. Nitr...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Debski EA,Cline HT

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines are small actin-rich protrusions on the surface of dendrites whose morphological and molecular plasticity play key roles in learning and memory. Both the form and function of spines are critically dependent on the actin cytoskeleton. However, new research, using electron microscopy and live-cell super...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dent EW,Merriam EB,Hu X

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual communication can evolve in response to sexual selection, and it can also cause behavioral reproductive isolation between populations and thus drive speciation. Anurans are an excellent system to investigate these links between behavior and evolution because we have detailed knowledge of how neural mechanisms g...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Ryan MJ,Guerra MA

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:Cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB)-responsive transcription plays a central role in the formation of long-term memory in Drosophila, Aplysia and mice. Agents that disrupt the activity of CREB specifically block the formation of long-term memory, whereas agents that increase the amount or activity of th...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Yin JC,Tully T

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that many aspects of reward-guided behaviour can be understood within the framework of a computational account of decision making. The account emphasises representation of expectations about decision outcomes and the revision of future expectations in the light of the prediction error-the discrep...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rushworth MF,Mars RB,Summerfield C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms for delivering components to nerve terminals are diverse and highly regulated. The diversity of kinesin motors alone is insufficient to account for the specificity of delivery. Additional specificity and control are contributed by adaptor proteins and associated regulatory molecules. The interaction of ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Goldstein AY,Wang X,Schwarz TL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide gated (CNG) cation channels are critical for signal transduction in vertebrate visual and olfactory systems. Members of the CNG channel gene family have now been cloned from a number of species, from Caenorhabditis elegans to humans. An important advance has been the discovery that CNG channels are p...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Zufall F,Shepherd GM,Barnstable CJ

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies over the past year have revealed two new insights into the role of neuropeptides in the evolution of social behaviors. First, across vertebrate taxa, certain neuropeptide effects appear to be gender-specific. Second, species variations in receptor gene structure can alter neuropeptide receptor dist...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Insel TR,Young LJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory neurons are usually described with an encoding model, for example, a function that predicts their response from the sensory stimulus using a receptive field (RF) or a tuning curve. However, central to theories of sensory processing is the notion of 'efficient coding'. We argue here that efficient coding implie...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Deneve S,Chalk M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell fate in the cephalic neural primordium is controlled by an organizer located at the midbrain-hindbrain boundary. Studies in chick, mouse and zebrafish converge to show that mutually repressive interactions between homeodomain transcription factors of the Otx and Gbx class position this organizer in the neural pri...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rhinn M,Brand M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of a functional neuronal network requires that axons navigate precisely to their appropriate targets. Molecules that specify guidance decisions have been identified, and the signaling events that occur downstream of guidance receptors are beginning to be understood. New research shows that guidance rece...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Grunwald IC,Klein R

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:Prions cause transmissible and genetic neurodegenerative diseases. Infectious prion particles are composed largely, if not entirely, of an abnormal isoform of the prion protein (PrPSc), which is encoded by a chromosomal gene. Although the PrP gene is single copy, transgenic mice with both alleles of the PrP gene ablat...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Prusiner SB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y is an important regulator of energy intake and expenditure. The central portion of this regulatory system appears to reside in the arcuate nucleus/paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. The effects of neuropeptide Y on energy metabolism include increased food intake, decreased thermogenesis and in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Billington CJ,Levine AS

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear and anxiety are debilitating conditions that affect a significant number of individuals in their lifetimes. Understanding underlying mechanisms of these disorders affords us the possibility of therapeutic intervention. Such clarity in terms of mechanism and intervention can only come from an amalgamation of resea...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dias BG,Banerjee SB,Goodman JV,Ressler KJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a similar fashion to transcription factors, non-coding RNAs can be essential regulators of gene expression. The largest class of non-coding RNAs is the microRNAs. These approximately 22 nt double-stranded RNA molecules can repress translation or target mRNA degradation. There has been a surge of research in the pas...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Klein ME,Impey S,Goodman RH

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:Recent advances in multi-electrode recording have brought us closer to understanding how visual information is encoded by populations of retinal ganglion cells. By monitoring the visual responses of many ganglion cells at once, it is now possible to examine how ganglion cells act together to encode a visual scene. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Nirenberg S,Latham PE

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:The vestibular system provides an attractive model for understanding how changes in cellular and synaptic activity influence learning and memory in a quantifiable behavior, the vestibulo-ocular reflex. The vestibulo-ocular reflex produces eye movements that compensate for head motion; simple yet powerful forms of moto...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Gittis AH,du Lac S

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:The rhythmic mandible-generated close-open alternations of the mouth, responsible for the series of consonant-vowel alternations characteristic of babbling and of languages, is receiving increased attention as a possible manifestation of an ontogenetic and phylogenetic 'frame' underlying the serial organization of spe...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： MacNeilage PF,Davis BL

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Axon pathfinding is essential for the establishment of proper neuronal connections during development. Advances in neuroimaging and genomic technologies, coupled with animal modeling, are leading to the identification of an increasing number of human disorders that result from aberrant axonal wiring. In this review, w...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Nugent AA,Kolpak AL,Engle EC

更新日期：2012-10-01 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