Endocannabinoid-mediated retrograde modulation of synaptic transmission.

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：: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：:In the twelve years since the molecular elucidation of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 1, a class III family of G-protein-coupled receptors has emerged; members of this family include the calcium-sensing receptor, the GABA(B) receptor, some odorant receptors and some taste receptors. Atomic structures of t...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Jingami H,Nakanishi S,Morikawa K

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast synaptic inhibition is largely mediated by GABA(A) receptors (GABA(A)Rs), ligand-gated chloride channels that play an essential role in the control of cell and network activity in the brain. Recent work has demonstrated that the delivery, number and stability of GABA(A)Rs at inhibitory synapses play a key role in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Smith KR,Kittler JT

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, work in the nascent field of neuroeconomics has advanced understanding of the brain systems involved in value-based decision making. An important modulator of valuation processes is the specific context a decision maker is facing during choice. Recently, neuroeconomics has made great progress in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Tymula A,Plassmann H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we review the mechanisms that determine projection neuron identity during cortical development. Pyramidal neurons in the mammalian cerebral cortex can be classified into two major classes: corticocortical projection neurons, which are concentrated in the upper layers of the cortex, and subcortical projection neur...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Leone DP,Srinivasan K,Chen B,Alcamo E,McConnell SK

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:All animals have a fundamental and unavoidable requirement for rest, yet we still do not fully understand the processes that initiate, maintain, and regulate sleep. The larval zebrafish is an optically translucent, genetically tractable model organism that exhibits sleep states regulated by conserved sleep circuits, t...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Barlow IL,Rihel J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the seminal discoveries in developmental neuroscience is that altering visual experience through monocular deprivation can alter both the physiological and the anatomical representation of the two eyes, called ocular dominance columns, in primary visual cortex. This rearrangement is restricted to a critical per...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Feller MB,Scanziani M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many regions of the brain, information is represented by patterns of activity occurring over populations of neurons. Understanding the encoding of information in neural population activity is important both for grasping the fundamental computations underlying brain function, and for interpreting signals that may be...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sanger TD

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:Echolocating bats exhibit accurate three-dimensional (3D) auditory localization to avoid obstacles and intercept prey. The bat achieves high spatial resolution through a biological sonar system. Key features of the bat's sonar system are (1) high frequency, directional echolocation signals; (2) high frequency hearing;...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wohlgemuth MJ,Luo J,Moss CF

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used widely to determine the spatial layout of brain activation associated with specific cognitive tasks at a spatial scale of millimeters. Recent methodological improvements have made it possible to determine the latency and temporal structure of the activation at a tem...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Formisano E,Goebel R

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Action potential conduction in myelinated nerve fibers depends on a polarized axonal membrane. Voltage-gated Na(+) and K(+) channels are clustered at nodes of Ranvier and mediate the transmembrane currents necessary for rapid saltatory conduction. Paranodal junctions flank nodes and function as attachment sites for my...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Schafer DP,Rasband MN

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical basis of circadian timekeeping is best characterized in cyanobacteria. The structures of its key molecular players, KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC are known and these proteins can reconstitute a remarkable circadian oscillation in a test tube. KaiC is rhythmically phosphorylated and its phospho-status is a marke...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Egli M,Johnson CH

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:In bilaterally symmetric organisms, the midline is a critical organizing center for the developing central nervous system. There is a striking conservation of the molecules and mechanisms that control axon path finding at the midline in vertebrate and invertebrate nervous systems. The majority of axons in the CNS cros...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Evans TA,Bashaw GJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory cortical maps have been a long-standing focus of studies that assess the expression, mechanisms, and consequences of sensory plasticity. Here we discuss recent progress in understanding how auditory experience transforms spatially organized sound representations at higher levels of the central auditory pathwa...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Schreiner CE,Polley DB

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of genetic mutations linked to familial neurodegenerative diseases have made it possible to generate useful transgenic animal models. Studies using these transgenic animals indicate that many familial neurodegenerative diseases, such as motor neuron disease, Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases and trinu...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lee MK,Borchelt DR,Wong PC,Sisodia SS,Price DL

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep has been universally conserved across animal species. The basic functions of sleep remain unclear, but insufficient sleep impairs memory acquisition and retention in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Sleep is also a homeostatic process that is influenced not only by the amount of time awake, but also by neural...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Donlea JM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past year, evidence has accrued that adult CNS stem cells are a widespread progenitor cell type. These cells may normally replace neurons and/or glia in the adult brain and spinal cord. Advances have been made in understanding the signals that regulate stem cell proliferation and differentiation. A deeper und...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Temple S,Alvarez-Buylla A

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social experiences throughout life influence gene expression and behavior, however, early in development these influences have a particularly profound effect. In mammals, mother-infant interactions are the primary source of social stimulation and result in long-term changes in offspring phenotype. This has previously ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Champagne FA,Curley JP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vestibulo-ocular reflexes (VOR) assist retinal image stabilization during vertebrate locomotion thereby ensuring accurate visual perception. The importance of this motor behavior for animal survival requires that the underlying circuitry and all individual components are fully developed and functional as soon as post-...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Straka H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences in the nervous system are found throughout the animal kingdom. Here, we discuss three prominent genetic models: nematodes, fruit flies, and mice. In all three, differential cell death is central to sexual differentiation and shared molecular mechanisms have been identified. Our knowledge of the precise...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Forger NG,de Vries GJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive neuroimaging maps the brain locations of mental operations. This process is iterative, as no single study can fully characterize a mental operation or its brain location. This iterative discovery process, in combination with the location-reporting standard (i.e. spatial coordinates) of the cognitive neuroima...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Fox PT,Parsons LM,Lancaster JL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how the brain performs computations requires understanding neuronal firing patterns at successive levels of processing-a daunting and seemingly intractable task. Two recent studies have made dramatic progress on this problem by showing how its dimensionality can be reduced. Using the retina as a model sy...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Nirenberg SH,Victor JD

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Thermal information about skin surface temperature is a key sense for the perception of object identity and valence. The identification of ion channels involved in the transduction of thermal changes has provided a genetic access point to the thermal system. However, from sensory specific 'labeled-lines' to multimodal...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bokiniec P,Zampieri N,Lewin GR,Poulet JF

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes use their sense of smell to find hosts, nectar, and oviposition sites, and to avoid repellents. A small number of mosquito species are adapted to feed on humans and have a major impact on public health by transmitting diseases such as malaria, dengue and filariasis. The application of odorants for behaviora...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Ray A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00