Do sleep complaints contribute to age-related cognitive decline?

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：:An essential component of the brain extracellular space is the extracellular matrix contributing to the spatial assembly of cells by binding cell-surface adhesion molecules, supporting cell migration, differentiation, and tissue development. The most interesting and complex functions of the central nervous system are ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Morawski M,Filippov M,Tzinia A,Tsilibary E,Vargova L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the role of attention in selecting visual attributes is well acknowledged, relatively less is known about the mechanisms that facilitate the selection of actions during goal-directed behaviors. The notion of an executive attention has provided a particularly fruitful framework to understand how the brain coordin...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sharika KM,Ray S,Murthy A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is considered to be an important and frequent factor in motivation problems. However, this term lacks clinical and pathophysiological validity. Semantic precision has to be improved. Lack of drive and tiredness with increased sleepiness as observed in fatigue in the context of inflammatory and immunological pr...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hegerl U,Ulke C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present contribution, the various functional interpretations concerning the putative function of the orbital prefrontal cortex are reviewed since this region and adjacent areas are considered the neural substrate of social behavior in general, and decision-making behavior in particular. This literature review r...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Volz KG,von Cramon DY

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter describes current findings from the research into postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) following cardiac and non-cardiac surgery in older adults. The evidence suggests that a significant proportion of patients show POCD in the early weeks following surgery and anesthesia. Specific domains of cogniti...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Caza N,Taha R,Qi Y,Blaise G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epileptologically informed in-depth analysis of auto- and heteroanamnestic historical sources supports the hypothesis that Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) might have suffered from a photosensitive idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndrome with absences, absence status, myoclonic seizures, and bilateral tonic-clonic seiz...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Altenmüller DM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter reviews the neurological phenotype of Down syndrome (DS) in early development, childhood, and aging. Neuroanatomic abnormalities in DS are manifested as aberrations in gross brain structure as well as characteristic microdysgenetic changes. As the result of these morphological abnormalities, brain circuit...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lott IT

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the more interesting and complex phenomena involving neurohypophysial hormones is the milk ejection reflex and the events surrounding it. Accordingly, many investigations over the years have taken up the challenge of elucidating its myriad aspects. Much has been learned from in vivo preparations about the seque...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hatton GI,Wang YF

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its peripheral secretion from the neurohypophysis, the neuropeptide vasopressin (VP) is released within the mammalian brain from probably all parts of the neuronal membrane. In particular the development of brain microdialysis in vivo together with blood microdialysis or blood sampling provides the adva...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Landgraf R,Wotjak CT,Neumann ID,Engelmann M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By blocking electrical activity in the cerebellar cortex the Purkinje cell dendrites become a uniform territory with a high density of spines all bearing the glutamate receptor delta2 subunit (GluRdelta2) and being mainly innervated by parallel fibers. Such a subunit, which is constitutively targeted specifically to t...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Cesa R,Strata P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive method used to induce electrical current in the brain through impulses of strong magnetic fields applied externally. The technique can relieve tinnitus by modulating the excitability of neurons in the auditory cortex to decrease the hyperexcitabilit...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kleinjung T,Steffens T,Londero A,Langguth B

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Characteristic features of autism include atypical social perception and social-communication skills, and atypical visual attention, alongside rigid and repetitive thinking and behavior. Debate has focused on whether the later emergence of atypical social skills is a consequence of attention problems early in life, or...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Elsabbagh M,Holmboe K,Gliga T,Mercure E,Hudry K,Charman T,Baron-Cohen S,Bolton P,Johnson MH,BASIS Team.

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus is crucial for the consolidation of new declarative long-term memories. Genetic and behavioral experimentation have revealed that several protein kinases are critical for the formation of hippocampus-dependent long-term memories. Cyclic-AMP dependent protein kinase (PKA) is a serine-threonine kinase th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Abel T,Nguyen PV

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and nonhuman primates predictively use smooth pursuit and saccades to track visual targets that move in a fronto-parallel plane. This behaviour is believed to be facilitated by short-term memory of the target motion and/or an efference copy of the subject's motor effort. Subjects in our experiments tracked dicho...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Fu P,Chang R,O'Beirne K,King WM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of the dendritically released neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin with co-released neuroactive substances such as opioids and nitric oxide are reviewed. Endogenous opioids regulate magnocellular neurons at the level of the supraoptic nucleus and the relationship of dendritically released peptides a...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ludwig M,Sabatier N,Dayanithi G,Russell JA,Leng G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The target article describes an interesting study, which provides some challenging findings regarding athletes' pathway to excellence. The suggested links between critical life events, need for success, personal characteristics, and eventual performance level make sense from a psychodynamic perspective. This commentar...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Toering T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing rat spinal cord, formation and differentiation of the central pattern generator for locomotion occur during the prenatal period. Early on, excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by glycine receptors plays a leading role for rhythmogenesis, at a later stage, followed by glutamate-receptor-mediated ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kudo N,Nishimaru H,Nakayama K

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Vasopressin (VP) is one of the principal neurotransmitters of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). By means of anatomical, physiological and electrophysiological techniques we have demonstrated that VP containing pathways from the SCN serve to affect neuroendocrine and 'autonomic' neurons in the paraventricular nucleus....

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Buijs RM,Hermes MH,Kalsbeek A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years the scientific community has come to appreciate that the early cortical representations for visually guided arm movements are probably coded in a visual frame, i.e. relative to retinal landmarks. While this scheme accounts for many behavioral and neurophysiological observations, it also poses certain p...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Henriques DY,Medendorp WP,Khan AZ,Crawford JD

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular interface of the brain is distinct from that of the peripheral tissue in that astrocytes, the most numerous glial cell type in the gray matter, cover the vasculature with their endfeet. This morphological feature of the gliovascular junction has prompted neuroscientists to suggest possible functional role...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Nuriya M,Hirase H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor control is defined as the process of restricting the output of the motor nervous system so that meaningful and coordinated behavior ensues. The high dimensionality of the computation underlying motor control is presented and a simplifying framework is outlined. Evidence that movements are performed non-continuou...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Welsh JP,Llinás R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular dominance plasticity may be the paradigmatic in vivo model of activity-dependent plasticity. More than four decades of intense research has delineated the network-level rules that govern synaptic change in this model. The recent characterization of a murine model for ocular dominance plasticity has facilitated ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Taha SA,Stryker MP

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is widespread in the nervous system and is thought to play a role in a variety of different neuronal functions, including learning and memory (see other chapters, this volume). A number of behavioral studies have indicated that NO is involved in several types of learning such as motor learning (Yanag...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hawkins RD,Son H,Arancio O

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The storage and elimination of urine requires the coordination of activity between the autonomic nervous system (thoracolumbar sympathetic and sacral parasympathetic divisions) controlling the urinary bladder and urethra and the lumbosacral somatic motoneurons innervating the striated sphincter and pelvic floor muscle...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Shefchyk SJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential infantile esotropia (EIE) is often attributed to a primary disturbance within the visual cortex based upon the findings of monocular horizontal optokinetic asymmetry and correlative horizontal motion detection asymmetry. However, these physiologic aberrations conform to what would be observed if the visual c...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Brodsky MC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual system is tied to the retina. Because the eyes move in the orbit, and the head moves on the body, accurate location of an object in extrapersonal space cannot simply result from a visual signal. Instead, the retinal signal must be combined with an estimate of where the eyes are in the orbit, and where the h...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Zhang M,Wang X,Goldberg ME

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the visual thalamic relays, the lateral geniculate nucleus and pulvinar, provide three key properties that have dramatically changed the view that the thalamus serves as a simple relay to get information from subcortical sites to cortex. First, the retinal input, although a small minority (7%) in terms of n...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sherman SM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00