Growth factors and growth factor receptors in the hippocampus. Role in plasticity and response to injury.

abstract：:The role of the superior colliculus in attending and orienting to sensory stimuli is facilitated by the presence within this midbrain nucleus of superimposed maps of different sensory modalities. We have studied the steps involved in the development of topographically-aligned maps of visual and auditory space in the f...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： King AJ,Schnupp JW,Carlile S,Smith AL,Thompson ID

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, theorists have argued that culture can shape processes of basic visual perception. This work has primarily focused on cultural influences in nonsocial domains, such as cross-cultural differences in seeing and attending to focal stimuli versus backgrounds. Recently, researchers have begun to exam...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Freeman JB,Rule NO,Ambady N

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a controversy on the moral import of music and art in general. On the one hand, the moralist view contends that there is some sort of link between art and morality, even if the way to specify this link may be highly diverse. It comprises most of the classical views of art, from Schiller's view of the ro...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gomila A,Christensen JF

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unresolved issue in visual motion perception is how distinct are the processes underlying 'first-order' and 'second-order' motion. The former is defined by spatio-temporal variations of luminance and the latter by spatio-temporal variations in other image attributes such as contrast or depth, for example. Using neu...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Vaina LM,Soloviev S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive control and decision making are two important research areas in the realm of higher-order cognition. Control processes such as interference control and monitoring in cognitive and affective contexts have been found to influence the process of decision making. Development of control processes follows a gradua...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kar BR,Vijay N,Mishra S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First, we review the characteristics of endogenous (sustained) and exogenous (transient) spatial covert attention. Then we examine the effects of these two types of attention on spatial resolution in a variety of tasks, such as acuity, visual search, and texture segmentation. Both types of covert attention enhance res...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Carrasco M,Yeshurun Y

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic potential of stem cells for regeneration after cerebral lesion has become of great interest. This is particularly so for neurodegenerative diseases as well as for stroke. Contrary to more conventional, cerebroprotective treatment approaches, the focus of regeneration lies in a longer time window during...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Adamczak J,Hoehn M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAergic interneurons of the parvalbumin-positive fast-spiking basket cells subtype (PV INs) are important regulators of cortical network excitability and of gamma oscillations, involved in signal processing and cognition. Impaired development or function of PV INs has been associated with epilepsy in various animal ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Jiang X,Lachance M,Rossignol E

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:PTSD arises by definition as a direct consequence of the experience of an acute severe stressor. The formation of traumatic memory and its extinction, sympathetic and adrenocortical stress systems activity in relation to individual vulnerability form the core of animal models for PTSD. ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Oitzl MS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, hypothalamic circuits have been described that impact energy homeostasis in rodents and humans. Our drug development efforts for the treatment of obesity and the metabolic syndrome have largely focused on selected genetic and/or pharmacologically validated pathways. The translation of these pathw...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Van der Ploeg LH,Kanatani A,MacNeil D,Ming Fong T,Strack A,Nargund R,Guan XM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamine oxidase (PAO) is a FAD-dependent enzyme with a molecular mass of about 62 kDa, present with high activity in most tissues of vertebrates. Structural requirements of a substrate for PAO are two positively charged amino groups, separated by a short carbon chain and an alkyl substituent on one or both nitrogen ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Seiler N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the neostriatum, GABAergic inhibition arises from the action of at least two classes of inhibitory interneurons, and from recurrent collaterals of the principal cells. Interneurons receive excitatory input only from extrinsic sources, and so act in a purely feedforward capacity. Feedback inhibition arises from the ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Wilson CJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review neural connections of the superior colliculus (SC) and brainstem saccade-related neurons in relation to saccade generation mechanism. The caudal and rostral SC play a role in saccade generation and visual fixation, respectively. This functional differentiation suggests that different connections should exist...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Shinoda Y,Takahashi M,Sugiuchi Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, the circadian system is composed of the central clock in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei and of peripheral clocks that are located in other neural structures and in cells of the peripheral tissues and organs. In adults, the system is hierarchically organized so that the central clock provides the o...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sumova A,Sladek M,Polidarova L,Novakova M,Houdek P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A problem for studies of all cortex, including prefrontal cortex, is how to relate results to proposed subdivisions of the brain and how to compare results across species. Investigators have been highly dependent on traditional architectonic maps of neocortex. However, over the last 20 years, other methods, especially...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kaas JH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerted efforts are realizing cell-based therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD). In this chapter, I describe efforts at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University. These efforts use induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) as donor cells. The iPSCs were established as human leukocyte antig...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Takahashi J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied visually guided behavior and the visual response properties of single auditory cortex (A1) neurons in neonatally operated hamsters with surgically induced, permanent, ectopic retinal projections to auditory thalamic nuclei and to visual thalamic nuclei which normally receive little direct retinal input. The...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ptito M,Giguère JF,Boire D,Frost DO,Casanova C

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Spinal cord injuries often lead to disorders in the control of autonomic function, including problems with blood pressure regulation, voiding, defecation and reproduction. The root cause of all these problems is the destruction of brain pathways that control spinal autonomic neurons lying caudal to the lesion. Changes...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Llewellyn-Smith IJ,Weaver LC,Keast JR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tend to regard consciousness as a fundamentally subjective phenomenon, yet we can only study it scientifically if it has objective, publicly visible, manifestations. This creates a central, recurring, tension in consciousness science which remains unresolved. On one 'objectivist' view, consciousness is not merely r...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Zeman A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter reviews four key issues that must be addressed to advance our knowledge of control of head movement by the central nervous system (CNS). (1) Researchers must consider how the CNS utilizes the multiple muscle patterns that can produce the same head movement in carrying out tasks in an optimal way. (2) More...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Peterson BW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When discrepant stimuli are presented to each eye and fusion is impossible, perception spontaneously oscillates between the two patterns (binocular rivalry). Functional MRI (fMRI) research identified a frontoparietal network in the right hemisphere associated with perceptual transitions, and it has been proposed that ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Valle-Inclán F,Gallego E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is a visual disorder characterized by progressive loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), which is often associated with high intraocular pressure. However, mechanisms of RGC death in glaucoma still remain a mystery. Two theories have been proposed as pathogeneses of glaucoma: mechanical and vascular. We demon...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Seki M,Lipton SA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium binding proteins, such as calretinin, are abundantly expressed in distinctive patterns in the central nervous system but their physiological function remains poorly understood. Calretinin is expressed in cerebellar granule cells which provide the major excitatory input to Purkinje cells through parallel fibers...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gall D,Roussel C,Nieus T,Cheron G,Servais L,D'Angelo E,Schiffmann SN

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex migrations of neurons born in the dorsal neural tube of the isthmic and rhombomere l (rl) domains complicate the delineation of the cerebellar primordium. We show that Purkinje cells (P) are likely generated over a wide territory before gathering in the future cerebellar primordium under the developing ext...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Narboux-Nême N,Louvi A,Alexandre P,Wassef M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a decade ago, Goodale and Milner proposed that our perceptual experience of the world depends on visual processing that is fundamentally distinct from that mediating the moment-to-moment visual control of our actions. They mapped this distinction between vision-for-perception and vision-for-action onto the t...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Goodale MA,Króliczak G,Westwood DA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF) in the 1950s and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the 1980s, a great deal of evidence has mounted for the roles of neurotrophins (NGF; BDNF; neurotrophin-3, NT-3; and neurotrophin-4/5, NT-4/5) in development, physiology, and pathology. BDNF in particular has ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Binder DK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injury (SCI) typically damages the long axonal tracts of the spinal cord which results in permanent disability. However, regeneration of the injured spinal cord is approaching reality according to the advances in stem cell biology. Cell transplantation therapy holds potential to lead to recovery following ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Nori S,Nakamura M,Okano H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this chapter is to review recent literature describing how developments in cognition may contribute to age-related changes in emotional processes, specifically emotion regulation and emotion perception. In general, older adults are more likely than young adults to report feeling positive. Prominent conceptu...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gurera JW,Isaacowitz DM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00