Termination zones of functionally characterized spinothalamic tract neurons within the primate posterior thalamus.

abstract：:We investigated the precision of spike timing in a model of gap junction-coupled oscillatory neurons. The model incorporated the known physiology, morphology, and connectivity of the weakly electric fish's high-frequency and extremely precise pacemaker nucleus (Pn). Two neuron classes, pacemaker and relay cells, were ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Moortgat KT,Bullock TH,Sejnowski TJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often suggested that decisions are made when accumulated sensory information reaches a fixed accuracy criterion. This is supported by many studies showing a gradual build up of neural activity to a threshold. However, the proposal that this build up is caused by sensory accumulation is challenged by findings tha...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Thura D,Beauregard-Racine J,Fradet CW,Cisek P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia constitute ~10-20% of glial cells in the adult human brain. They are the resident phagocytic immune cells of the central nervous system and play an integral role as first responders during inflammation. Microglia are commonly classified as "HM" (homeostatic), "M1" (classically activated proinflammatory), or ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： von Maydell D,Jorfi M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leopard frog saccular hair cells exhibit an electrical resonance in response to a depolarizing stimulus that has been proposed to contribute to the tuning properties of the frog sacculus by acting as an electrical band-pass filter. With the whole cell patch-clamp technique, we have investigated the effect of temperatu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Smotherman MS,Narins PM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity can be heavily impacted not only by basic threats to survival but also by threats to social bonds. In this study we explored the behavioral and physiological consequences of social exclusion/inclusion in patients with psoriasis, a disease frequen...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ponsi G,Monachesi B,Panasiti V,Aglioti SM,Panasiti MS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The caudal primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) is involved in target selection and visually guided saccades through both covert attention and overt orienting eye movements. Unilateral damage to the caudal PFC often leads to decreased awareness of a contralesional target alone, referred to as "neglect," or when it is prese...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Adam R,Johnston K,Everling S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Whether complex (C) cells are the only truly texture-sensitive units in the cat's primary visual cortex remains controversial. In view of the strong physiological significance of having putatively only one class of cells sensitive to visual noise in the striate cortex, we reinvestigated this issue. Sensitivities of...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Casanova C,Savard T,Nordmann JP,Molotchnikoff S,Minville K

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the role of cholinergic inputs to the intermediate layer of the superior colliculus (SC), we examined the effect of microinjection of nicotine into the SC on visually guided saccades in macaque monkeys. After injection of 0.4-2 microl of 1-100 mM nicotine into the SC, frequency of extremely short latency sa...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Aizawa H,Kobayashi Y,Yamamoto M,Isa T

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Models of the saccadic system propose that there is an integration of the pulse signal, and there is good evidence that the integrator is reset gradually (Nichols and Sparks 1994, 1995). Other studies of the superior collicular contribution to the saccadic system have proposed a sensory, not motor, nature for its s...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kustov AA,Robinson DL

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study considers the possibility of using coherence analysis for detection and measurement of synchrony (correlations) in large neural populations, applied to activities that are relatively easy to record in parallel. Mathematical analysis and computer simulations are used to examine the behavior of the coherence ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Christakos CN

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental principles of neuroscience is that direct electrical interactions between neurons are not possible without specialized electrical contacts, gap junctions, because the transmembrane resistance of neurons is typically much higher than the resistance of the adjacent extracellular space. However it ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dmitriev AV,Mangel SC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional coupling of neural circuits between the upper and lower limbs involving rhythmic movements is of interest to both motor control research and rehabilitation science. This coupling can be detected by examining the effect of remote rhythmic limb movement on the modulation of reflex amplitude in stationary ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sasada S,Tazoe T,Nakajima T,Zehr EP,Komiyama T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The purpose of this study was 1) to characterize the decrease observed in mean firing rates of motor units in the first 8-15 s of isometric constant-force contractions and 2) to investigate possible mechanisms that could account for the ability to maintain force output in the presence of decreasing motor unit firin...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： de Luca CJ,Foley PJ,Erim Z

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugate eye movements in the horizontal plane are accomplished by the coactivation of the medial rectus (MR) muscle of one orbit and the lateral rectus (LR) muscle of the other. While control of these excursions has been thought to be effected by identical inputs to these muscles, recent studies have demonstrated th...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Meredith MA,Goldberg SJ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different muscle targets and transcription factor expression patterns reveal the presence of motor neuron subtypes. However, it is not known whether these subtypes also differ with respect to electrical membrane properties. To address this question, we studied primary motor neurons (PMNs) in the spinal cord of zebrafi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Moreno RL,Ribera AB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silencing-induced homeostatic plasticity is usually expressed as a change in the amplitude or the frequency of miniature postsynaptic currents. Here we report that, prolonged (approximately 24 h) silencing of mature (20-22 days in vitro) cultured hippocampal neurons using the voltage-gated sodium channel blocker tetro...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sokolova IV,Mody I

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P/Q-type voltage-dependent Ca(2+) channels (VDCCs) are highly expressed in the cerebellum, and mutations of these channels are associated with disrupted motor function. Several allelic variants of the alpha1A pore-forming subunit of P/Q-type VDCCs have been described, and mice homozygous for these mutations exhibit ga...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Katoh A,Jindal JA,Raymond JL

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The corticotectal influences of somatosensory cortex were investigated by using reversible deactivation of cortex by cooling. More than half of the somatosensory superior colliculus (SC) cells studied exhibited a response depression (often not apparent qualitatively) or an elimination of responses to somatosensory sti...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Clemo HR,Stein BE

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of sensorimotor adaptation is considered to be driven by errors. While sensory prediction errors, defined as the difference between the planned and the actual movement of the cursor, drive implicit learning processes, target errors (e.g., the distance of the cursor from the target) are thought to drive exp...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Reichenthal M,Avraham G,Karniel A,Shmuelof L

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent inward currents are important to motoneuron excitability and firing behaviors and also have been implicated in excitotoxicity. In particular, L-type Ca2+ channels, usually located on motoneuron dendrites, play a primary role in amplification of synaptic inputs. However, recent experimental findings on L-typ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Mousa MH,Elbasiouny SM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that successively presented sounds that are perceived as separate auditory streams are represented by separate populations of neurons. Mostly, spectral separation in different peripheral filters has been identified as the cue for segregation. However, stream segregation based on temporal cues is ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Itatani N,Klump GM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have pointed to olfactory system beta oscillations of the local field potential (15-30 Hz) and their roles both in learning and as specific responses to predator odors. To describe odorant physical properties, resultant behavioral responses and changes in the central olfactory system that may induce the...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lowry CA,Kay LM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recording simultaneous activity of a large number of neurons in distributed neuronal networks is crucial to understand higher order brain functions. We demonstrate the in vivo performance of a recently developed electrophysiological recording system comprising a two-dimensional, multi-shank, high-density silicon probe...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fiáth R,Beregszászi P,Horváth D,Wittner L,Aarts AA,Ruther P,Neves HP,Bokor H,Acsády L,Ulbert I

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Discharges of neurons in the peripheral auditory system contain information about the temporal features of acoustic stimuli. Phase-locking of neurons in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) is usually reported to be less robust than in auditory nerve (AN) fibers, which provide their major input. In a companion...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Joris PX,Smith PH,Yin TC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) agonists increase the excitability of hippocampal CAl pyramidal neurons via depression of the postspike afterhyperpolarization. In adult rats, this is mediated by both mGluR1 and -5, but the signal transduction processes involved are unknown. In this study, we investigat...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ireland DR,Guevremont D,Williams JM,Abraham WC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain signals threat and initiates motor responses to avoid harm. The transformation of pain into a motor response is thus an essential part of pain. Here, we investigated the neural mechanisms subserving the sensorimotor transformation of pain at the cortical level by using electroencephalography. In a simple reaction...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Schulz E,Tiemann L,Witkovsky V,Schmidt P,Ploner M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretation of hemodynamic responses in epilepsy is hampered by an incomplete understanding of the underlying neurovascular coupling, especially the contributions of excitation and inhibition. We made simultaneous multimodal recordings of local field potentials (LFPs), firing of individual neurons, blood flow, and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Saillet S,Quilichini PP,Ghestem A,Giusiano B,Ivanov AI,Hitziger S,Vanzetta I,Bernard C,Bénar CG

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition characterized by profound deficits in memory and cognitive function. Neuropathological hallmarks of the disease include a loss of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and the deposition of beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) in neuritic plaques. At a cellul...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fu W,Jhamandas JH

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CA1 inhibitory interneurons at the stratum lacunosum-moleculare and radiatum junction (LM/RAD-INs) display subthreshold membrane potential oscillations (MPOs) involving voltage-dependent Na(+) and A-type K(+) currents. LM/RAD-INs also express other voltage-gated K(+) currents, although their properties and role in MPO...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Morin F,Haufler D,Skinner FK,Lacaille JC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) mGluR1 and mGluR5 are often found to have similar functions, there is considerable evidence that the two receptors also serve distinct functions in neurons. In hippocampal area CA1, mGluR5 has been most strongly implicated in long-term synaptic depression (LTD), where...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Volk LJ,Daly CA,Huber KM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00