Serotonin modulates retinotectal and corticotectal convergence in the superior colliculus.

abstract：:Postural instability and falls are common causes of morbidity and mortality in the second most prevalent neurodegenerative condition, Parkinson's disease (PD). Poor understanding of balance dysfunction in PD has hampered the development of novel therapeutic measures for postural instability and balance dysfunction. We...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Beylergil SB,Ozinga S,Walker MF,McIntyre CC,Shaikh AG

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BBB is a target for some peptide signals, as demonstrated by our group for arginine-vasopressin (AVP) and atriopeptin (ANP). Peptide molecules contacting the luminal surface of endothelial cells interact with specific high-affinity binding sites. The minimal simple diffusion of peptide molecules across the layer o...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ermisch A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major point of this chapter is that there is evidence to support the idea that cervical headache might not only result from injured somatic structures in the neck but also occur because of interactions with visceral organs. The complex arrangement of convergent inputs from somatic and visceral afferent fibers and ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Foreman RD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For diagnostic purposes, a differentiation can be made between the locus coeruleus (LC) in normal brain and the LC, in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) and Parkinson's disease (PD). The differentiation is based on findings concerning the morphological alterations of the TH-immunoreactive; neurons, on the...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chan-Palay V

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partly due to the failure of anthropology to productively engage the fields of psychology and neuroscience, investigations in cultural neuroscience have occurred largely without the active involvement of anthropologists or anthropological theory. Dramatic advances in the tools and findings of social neuroscience have ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Brown RA,Seligman R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptic seizures cause dynamic, reversible changes in brain function and are often associated with loss of consciousness. Of all seizure types, absence seizures lead to the most selective deficits in consciousness, with relatively little motor or other manifestations. Impaired consciousness in absence seizures is no...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Blumenfeld H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been substantial progress in our understanding of the hippocampus in the past 70 years. During this time, it has become clear that the hippocampus is not an olfactory-related structure alone, but plays critical roles in other functions that do not necessarily depend on olfaction, such as learning and memory....

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Seress L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of refractory PD with autologous adrenal medullary implants utilizing two-stage surgery warrants further investigation. This transplantation technique is associated with prolonged transplant area BBB disruption which may require a change in medical treatment strategies including the withdrawal of peripheral ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Petruk KC,Wilson AF,Schindel DR,Witt NJ,McLean DR,McFarland PA,Johnston RG,McPhee MS,Martin WR,Calne DB

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor tyrosine kinase B, TrkB, is the high-affinity receptor for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Much evidence supports a role for TrkB signaling in excitatory synapse formation. There have been a number of recent advances in understanding the cell biology of TrkB-mediated excitatory synaptogenesis. T...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Luikart BW,Parada LF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The description of a biological system using a mathematical model is the most effective means to specify the functioning of a quantitative hypothesis, providing at the same time the ability to make predictions that can be further tested experimentally. The Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR), and more generally the ocular m...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ramat S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this chapter, we explore what happens in the brain of an expert musician during performance. Understanding expert music performance is interesting to cognitive neuroscientists not only because it tests the limits of human memory and movement, but also because studying expert musicianship can help us understand skil...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Brown RM,Zatorre RJ,Penhune VB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccadic oscillations are unwanted back-to-back saccades occurring one upon the other that produce a high-frequency oscillation of the eyes (usually 15-30 Hz). These may occur transiently in normal subjects, for example, around the orthogonal axis of a purely horizontal or vertical saccade, during combined saccade-ver...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ramat S,Leigh RJ,Zee DS,Shaikh AG,Optican LM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This contribution reviewed the available evidence on the domain-specific and domain-general neurocognitive determinants of children's arithmetic development, other than nonsymbolic numerical magnitude processing, which might have been overemphasized as a core factor of individual differences in mathematics and dyscalc...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Vanbinst K,De Smedt B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tibetan Buddhist classification of mind, its divisions and the system of meditation practices aimed at achieving ideal states of being are a complex presentation of psychological, behavioral and spiritual concepts and processes that demand thorough understanding before assessing their value and outcome (Yeshe, 199...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Rapgay L,Rinpoche VL,Jessum R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chapter reviews a classical Indian model of consciousness found in the Abhidhamma, a collection of seven treatises in the Pali Canon Tipitaka. The model was based on observations made during advanced vipassana practice, a first-person method taught by the Buddha. The climax of the model consists in the elucidation...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Banerjee R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main topic of this overview is an analysis of the concepts of phase and synchrony, as used in neurophysiology, in their various meanings. A number of notions related to the concepts of phase and synchrony, which are incorporated in contemporary neurophysiology, particularly in the domain of neuro-cognitive physiol...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lopes da Silva FH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) is required for the survival of developing sympathetic and sensory neurons. In the absence of NGF, these neurons undergo protein synthesis-dependent apoptosis. Ten years have gone by since the first reports of specific genes being upregulated during NGF deprivation-induced cell death. Over th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Freeman RS,Burch RL,Crowder RJ,Lomb DJ,Schoell MC,Straub JA,Xie L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Object recognition and visual attention are tightly linked processes in human perception. Over the last three decades, many models have been suggested to explain these two processes and their interactions, and in some cases these models appear to contradict each other. We suggest a unifying framework for object recogn...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Walther DB,Koch C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) participate in a variety of physiologic and pathologic processes in the nervous system. nNOS was originally felt to be a constitutively expressed enzyme, but recent observations suggest that its levels are dynamically controlled in response to neuronal development, plasticity and ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Dawson TM,Sasaki M,Gonzalez-Zulueta M,Dawson VL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two roles in awareness most often suggested for the cerebellum are (i) keeping the details of motor skills away from forebrain computation, and (ii) signaling to the forebrain when a sensory event is not predictable from prior motor commands. However, it is unclear how current models of the cerebellum could carry ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Dean P,Porrill J,Stone JV

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity to sustain high-intensity aerobic exercise is essential for endurance performance. Therefore, it is important to understand what is the factor limiting time to exhaustion (TTE) in healthy and fit adults. In Study 1, maximal voluntary cycling power (MVCP) was measured in 11 volunteers before and immediatel...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Staiano W,Bosio A,de Morree HM,Rampinini E,Marcora S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the "Histology of the Nervous System" (Histologie, Spanish edition, 1899, 1904; French translation, 1909, 1911; all citations are from the American translation, 1995) Cajal did not only describe the origins and central pathways of cranial nerves but his detailed observations led him to numerous conclusions about th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Schwarzacher SW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies reviewed in this chapter present a convincing argument that prostaglandins have direct actions at the level of the spinal cord to enhance nociception. Furthermore, an increasing body of evidence supports the hypothesis that one important site of action of these eicosanoids is the terminals of sensory neuro...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Vasko MR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor control of attention-related and motor processes, often associated with behavioural or cognitive impulsivity, are typical features of children and adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Until recently clinicians have observed little need to improve on or add to the catecholaminergic model fo...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Oades RD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human evolution was marked by an extraordinary increase in total brain size relative to body size. While it is certain that increased encephalization is an important factor contributing to the origin of our species-specific cognitive abilities, it is difficult to disentangle which aspects of human neural structure and...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sherwood CC,Bauernfeind AL,Bianchi S,Raghanti MA,Hof PR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) is generally defined as visual field loss and optic nerve defects consistent with glaucoma and an intraocular pressure (IOP) that does not exceed 21 mmHg (Allingham, R.R., Damji, K., Freedman, S., Moroi, S., Shafranov, G., Shields, M.B. (2005). In: Pine J. and Murphy J. (Eds.), Shields' T...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Desai PV,Caprioli J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinogeniculate connections are one of the most striking examples of connection specificity within the visual pathway. In almost every connection there is one dominant afferent cell per geniculate cell, and both afferent and geniculate cells have very similar receptive fields. The remarkable specificity and strength ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Alonso JM,Yeh CI,Weng C,Stoelzel C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orexin, also known as hypocretin, is a hypothalamic neuropeptide important for mediation of arousal and sleep as well as feeding and energy homeostasis. Recent studies have indicated that orexin also plays a key role regulating motivation and reward associated with food intake and with drugs of abuse. Based on those f...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Di Sebastiano AR,Coolen LM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is an age-related neurodegenerative disease that begins at the onset of aging. In this disease, there is an involvement of the immune system and therefore of the microglia. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the microglial activation using a mouse model of ocular hypertension (OHT) at the onset of aging...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ramírez AI,Fernández-Albarral JA,Hoz R,López-Cuenca I,Salobrar-García E,Rojas P,Valiente-Soriano FJ,Avilés-Trigueros M,Villegas-Pérez MP,Vidal-Sanz M,Triviño A,Salazar JJ,Ramírez JM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of several mutations causing familial forms of Parkinson's disease (PD) has led to the creation of multiple lines of mice expressing similar genetic alterations. These models present a unique opportunity for understanding pathophysiological mechanisms leading to PD in a mammalian brain and provide m...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Magen I,Chesselet MF

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00