The multiple roles of estrogens and the enzyme aromatase.

abstract：:This investigation was designed to study the role of muscarinic receptor subtypes in the cardiovascular responses elicited by microinjection of cholinergic agonists in the intermediate portion of the NTS, the VLPA and VLDA areas and the IML of the spinal cord. Microinjections of L-glutamate (1.77 nmol in 20-50 nl in 0...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sapru HN

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) as a motor disorder is pathologically featured by the loss of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra compacta (SNc) and the consequent depletion of dopamine in the striatum. However, motor signs are detectable when the loss of dopaminergic striatal terminals exceeds to the dopaminergic n...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lafuente JV,Requejo C,Ugedo L

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:John Bell, brother-surgeon of Charles Bell, was, like Charles, an outstanding surgeon and a good artist. John was one of the few who illustrated his work with their own drawings in the days before audiovisual aids were available and without the benefit of reliable drawing aids, photography and computer-aided design. C...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gardner-Thorpe C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Rebound nystagmus, a common cerebellar sign, is a transient nystagmus that appears on returning to straight-ahead gaze after prolonged eccentric gaze. The slow phases of rebound nystagmus are in the direction of prior eccentric gaze. After eccentric gaze, healthy subjects also show rebound nystagmus when fixation is r...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Otero-Millan J,Colpak AI,Kheradmand A,Zee DS

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Retinal ganglion cell axons within the globe are functionally specialized being richly provided with many mitochondria. The mitochondria produce the high energy requirement for nerve conduction in the unmyelinated part of the ganglion cell axons. We have proposed that in the initiation of glaucoma, an alteration in th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Osborne NN

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been tacitly assumed that a long descending motor tract axon consists of a private line connecting the cell of origin to a single muscle, as a motoneuron innervates a single muscle. However, this notion of a long descending motor tract referred to as a private line is no longer tenable, since recent studies hav...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Shinoda Y,Sugiuchi Y,Izawa Y,Hata Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the sample size of a typical neuroimaging study lacks sufficient statistical power to explore unknown genomic associations with brain phenotypes, several international genetic imaging consortia have been organized in recent years to pool data across sites. The challenges and achievements of these consortia are c...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Mackey S,Kan KJ,Chaarani B,Alia-Klein N,Batalla A,Brooks S,Cousijn J,Dagher A,de Ruiter M,Desrivieres S,Feldstein Ewing SW,Goldstein RZ,Goudriaan AE,Heitzeg MM,Hutchison K,Li CS,London ED,Lorenzetti V,Luijten M,Mart

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental obstacle to neuroprostheses based on penetrating microstimulation is the tissue's response to the device insertion and to the application of the electrical stimulation. Our long-term goal is to develop multichannel microstimulation of central nervous tissue for clinical therapy. The overall objective o...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Koivuniemi A,Wilks SJ,Woolley AJ,Otto KJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：:Sub-lethal exposure to practically any harmful stimulus has been shown to induce consequent protection against more severe stress. This preconditioning (PC) effect may be achieved by exposure to different stressors, indicating that the induction of tolerance involves activation of common protective pathways. Chronic e...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Shein NA,Horowitz M,Shohami E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic epilepsy, as a consequence of status epilepticus, has been studied in animal models in order to analyze the cellular mechanisms responsible for the subsequent occurrence of spontaneous seizures. Status epilepticus, induced by either kainic acid or pilocarpine or by prolonged electrical stimulation, causes a ch...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Dudek FE,Hellier JL,Williams PA,Ferraro DJ,Staley KJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Elucidation of the molecular basis of mammalian circadian rhythms has progressed dramatically in recent years through the characterization of mouse mutants. With the implementation of numerous mouse genetics programs, comprehensive sets of mutations in genes affecting circadian output measures have been generated. Alt...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Anand SN,Edwards JK,Nolan PM

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:This chapter has highlighted how correlates of neuronal plasticity such as electrophysiological responsiveness and changes in gene expression may be examined in defined CNS regions as well as in single cells. The ability to simultaneously measure the mRNA levels for hundreds of different genes, to clone novel genes, a...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Eberwine J,Cao Y,Nair S,Miyashiro K,Mackler S,Finnell R,Surmeier J,Dichter M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results from the language studies taken as a whole point to different developmental time courses and developmental vulnerabilities of aspects of grammatical and semantic/lexical processing. They thus provide support for conceptions of language that distinguish these subprocesses within language. Similarly, followi...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Neville H,Bavelier D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of chimeric retinas has yielded insight on the early development of retina. The close match in chimerism ratios between right and left retinas is significant and supports the idea that both retinas originate from a common population of progenitors. We are able to estimate numbers of progenitor cells that con...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Goldowitz D,Rice DS,Williams RW

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective neuronal loss following status epilepticus was first described just under 100 years ago. The acute pathology following status epilepticus was shown to be 'ischemic cell change' and was assumed to arise through hypoxia/ischemia. Less than 30 years ago it was proposed, from experiments in primates, that the se...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Meldrum BS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is among the most common and disabling neurological diseases in the world. Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is a wave of near-complete depolarization of neurons and glial cells that slowly propagates along the cortex creating the perception of aura. Evidence suggests that CSD can trigger migraine headache....

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Takizawa T,Ayata C,Chen SP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various growth factors are present in the hippocampal formation and appear responsible for the prominent plasticity of this brain area. Although hormone-like growth-promoting polypeptides are the best known, recent studies emphasize the importance in the growth response of molecules such as laminin proteoglycans, neur...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Nieto-Sampedro M,Bovolenta P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor control of different segments of the body with multiple degrees of freedom appears to be coordinated by utilizing preferred axes of motor activity. This hypothesis may also be applied to vestibular control of posture. To explore this question we studied the anatomical relationship between the head and the cervic...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Vidal PP,Wang DH,Graf W,de Waele C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea of the dentate gyrus as a gate or filter at the entrance to the hippocampus, blocking or filtering incoming excitation from the entorhinal cortex, has been an intriguing one. Here we review the historical development of the idea, and discuss whether it may be possible to be more specific in defining this gate...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hsu D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objects have specific cognitive attributes, elicit particular visuo-motor responses, and require visual processes beyond primary visual cortex to combine information over extended regions as a basis for the segmentation and integration of visual objects. As well as segmentation, the assignment of region boundaries to ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Braddick O,Atkinson J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00