The emergence of mind and brain: an evolutionary, computational, and philosophical approach.

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：:The impact of spinal cord injury on an individual's gastrointestinal tract function is often poorly understood by the general public and also by those involved with persons with spinal cord injury. This chapter reviews the anatomy, physiology and function of the gastrointestinal tract, with particular emphasis on neur...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chung EA,Emmanuel AV

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating neurological disorder that can affect any individual at a given instance. Current treatment options for SCI include the use of high dose methylprednisolone sodium succinate, a corticosteroid, surgical interventions to stabilize and decompress the spinal cord, intensive m...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Baptiste DC,Fehlings MG

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:Artistic ability and creativity are defining characteristics of human behavior. Behavioral neurology, as a specialty, believes that even the most complex behaviors can be modeled and understood as the summation of smaller cognitive functions. Literature from individuals with specific brain lesions has helped to map ou...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Miller ZA,Miller BL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous system can generate rhythms of various frequencies; on the low-frequency side, we have the circuits regulating circadian rhythms with a 24-h period, while on the high-frequency side we have the motor circuits that underlie flight in a hummingbird. Given the ubiquitous nature of rhythms, it is surprising th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Saint-Amant L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human brain is often characterized in terms of a duality, with the left and right brains serving complementary functions, and even individuals are sometimes classified as either "left-brained" or "right-brained." Recent evidence from brain imaging shows that hemispheric asymmetry is multidimensional, comprised of ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Corballis MC

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:The following chapter offers an overview of results of experimental studies conducted among healthy individuals examining the effects of acute administration of Δ9-THC and other cannabinoids, alone or in combination, on brain function and behavior, also as a function of previous cannabis exposure. In light of their me...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Colizzi M,Bhattacharyya S

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Injuries to the adult mammalian spinal cord often lead to severe damage to both ascending (sensory) pathways and descending (motor) nerve pathways without the perspective of complete functional recovery. Future spinal cord repair strategies should comprise a multi-factorial approach addressing several issues, includin...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hendriks WT,Ruitenberg MJ,Blits B,Boer GJ,Verhaagen J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do complex-partial seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) cause a loss of consciousness? Abnormal function of the medial temporal lobe is expected to cause memory loss, but it is unclear why profoundly impaired consciousness is so common in temporal lobe seizures. Recent exciting advances in behavioral, electrop...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Englot DJ,Blumenfeld H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) evaluated by detecting temporal co-variation of BOLD signals across multiple brain regions undergoes three major changes following sleep deprivation that indicate the occurrence of sleep intrusions; a loss of integration within networks like the default mode network as well...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chee MWL,Zhou J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic tendencies to detect and respond to significant events are present in the simplest single cell organisms and persist throughout all invertebrates and vertebrates. Within vertebrates, the overall brain plan is highly conserved, though differences in size and complexity also exist. The forebrain differs the most b...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： LeDoux JE

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:VLBW infants are at risk of lesions including intraventricular haemorrhage and periventricular leucomalacia. Those with normal IQ still present with reading difficulties. Oculomotor performance was assessed on 14 VLBWs (IQ > 85) and 15 full-term age-matched controls. Anti-saccade errors were significantly higher for t...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Newsham D,Knox PC

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter reviews research that focuses on the effects of emotionality of single words, and of simple phrases, on event-related brain potentials when these are presented visually in various tasks. In these studies, presentation of emotionally evocative language material has consistently elicited a late (c. 300-600 ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Fischler I,Bradley M

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Molecular biology techniques have begun to shed light on the genetic basis of autosomal dominant central DI, but several very basic questions remain to be answered. The disorder was initially presumed to have a developmental, degenerative, or autoimmune basis based on the autopsy findings in the hypothalamus of a limi...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Repaske DR,Phillips JA 3rd

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swallowing is an essential function in our daily life; nevertheless, stroke or other neurodegenerative diseases can cause the malfunction of swallowing function, ie, dysphagia. The objectives of this review are to understand the neural and cortical basis of swallowing and tongue, and review the latest techniques on th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Yang H,Ang KK,Wang C,Phua KS,Guan C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the neural efficiency hypothesis, brighter individuals might be characterized by lower and topographically more differentiated brain activation than less intelligent individuals, presumably reflecting a more specialized recruitment of task-related areas. The findings of several studies analyzing the event...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Neubauer AC,Fink A,Grabner RH

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Language is predominantly a left hemisphere function, yet patients with extensive damage to known language areas often recover quite well in the days to weeks to even years following focal brain injury. This recovery period can be divided into three overlapping stages: acute, subacute, and chronic, each with different...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Marsh EB,Hillis AE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand preference is a sensorimotor skill whose development both reflects and promotes the development of hemispheric lateralization for manual and cognitive functions. Extensive comparative, crosscultural, and paleoanthropological evidence demonstrates the prevalence of limb lateralized preferences across vertebrate sp...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Michel GF,Babik I,Nelson EL,Campbell JM,Marcinowski EC

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：:Until recently, the constraints imposed on decision makers by the human physical condition - situated both as a physical agent and within physical space - have played only an incidental, if not entirely inconsequential, role in conceptualizations of human decision making. The act of deciding has been positioned as the...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： DeCaro DA,Bar-Eli M,Conlin JA,Diederich A,Johnson JG,Plessner H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent upsurge in research has uncovered distinct circuitries that regulate appetite, energy expenditure and fat accrual under the supervision of hormonal feedback signalling of adipocyte leptin and gastric ghrelin in the hypothalamic integration of energy homeostasis. A host of messenger molecules of diverse chemical...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kalra SP,Kalra PS

更新日期：2010-01-01 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