The role of familiarity in the recognition of static and dynamic objects.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) is the leading cause of blindness in East Asia. The disease can be classified into primary angle-closure suspect, primary angle closure (PAC), and PACG. Pupil-block, anterior nonpupil-block (plateau iris and peripheral iris crowding), lens related and retrolenticular m...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Amerasinghe N,Aung T

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：: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：: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：:It was generally accepted by the early 1960s that proton beam radiosurgery was too complex and impractical. The need was seen for a new machine. The beam design had to be as good as a proton beam. It was also decided that a static design was preferable even if the evolution of that notion is no longer clear. Complex c...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ganz JC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent eye-tracking research has revealed that spoken language can guide eye gaze very rapidly (and closely time-locked to the unfolding speech) toward referents in the visual world. We discuss whether, and to what extent, such language-mediated eye movements are automatic rather than subject to conscious and controll...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Mishra RK,Olivers CN,Huettig F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a brief review of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) as indices of cortical information processing in conditions in which conscious perception of stimuli is supposed to be absent: sleep, coma, vegetative state, general anesthesia, neglect as well as presentation of subliminal or masked stimuli. Exogenous ER...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kotchoubey B

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Paired organotypic explants from rat occipital cortex were cultured for up to three weeks in the presence of selective blockers of amino acid receptor blockers, during which period spontaneous action potential generation was monitored electrophysiologically. In contrast to isolated explants (Corner, M.A., van Pelt, J....

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Corner MA,Baker RE,van Pelt J,Wolters PS

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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：:The ability to form tenable hypotheses regarding the neurobiological basis of normative functions as well as mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders is often limited by the highly complex brain circuitry and the cellular and molecular mosaics therein. The brain is an intricate structure ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ginsberg SD,Mirnics K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intron-specific probes measure heteronuclear RNA (hnRNA) levels and thus approximate the transcription rates of genes, in part because of the rapid turnover of this intermediate form of RNA in the cell nucleus. Previously, we used oxytocin (Oxt)- and vasopressin (Avp)- intron-specific riboprobes to measure changes in ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Scordalakes EM,Yue C,Gainer H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) is generally defined as visual field loss and optic nerve defects consistent with glaucoma and an intraocular pressure (IOP) that does not exceed 21 mmHg (Allingham, R.R., Damji, K., Freedman, S., Moroi, S., Shafranov, G., Shields, M.B. (2005). In: Pine J. and Murphy J. (Eds.), Shields' T...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Desai PV,Caprioli J

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Recent accounts of tinnitus development and maintenance assign an important role to central mechanisms. Residual inhibition is a frequent phenomenon in individuals with tinnitus, and refers to the fact that tinnitus can temporarily be reduced by presenting sounds or noises that inhibit tinnitus for a limited time even...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Struve M,Diesch E,Flor H

更新日期：2007-01-01 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 chapter reviews a classical Indian model of consciousness found in the Abhidhamma, a collection of seven treatises in the Pali Canon Tipitaka. The model was based on observations made during advanced vipassana practice, a first-person method taught by the Buddha. The climax of the model consists in the elucidation...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Banerjee R

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Saccadic oscillations are unwanted back-to-back saccades occurring one upon the other that produce a high-frequency oscillation of the eyes (usually 15-30 Hz). These may occur transiently in normal subjects, for example, around the orthogonal axis of a purely horizontal or vertical saccade, during combined saccade-ver...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ramat S,Leigh RJ,Zee DS,Shaikh AG,Optican LM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While a basic locomotor rhythm is centrally generated by spinal circuits, descending pathways are critical for ensuring appropriate anticipatory modifications of gait to accommodate uneven terrain. Neurons in the motor cortex command the changes in muscle activity required to modify limb trajectory when stepping over ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Drew T,Prentice S,Schepens B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive oxytocin (OXT) detected in extracts of human coeliac ganglia and nn. vagi was characterized by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). HPLC/RIA examinations demonstrated that a major part of the immunoreactive material in both investigated areas co-eluted with a reference synthetic OXT, but in th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Vecsernyés M,Jójárt I,Jójárt J,Laczi F

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：:Individual differences in cognitive functioning during extended work hours and shift work are of considerable magnitude, and observed both in the laboratory and in the workplace. These individual differences have a biological basis in trait-like, differential vulnerability to fatigue from sleep loss and circadian misa...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Van Dongen HP,Caldwell JA Jr,Caldwell JL

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:In the kidney, the actions of the antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP) renders the collecting duct highly permeable to water. This large increase in water permeability is largely due to the translocation of the water channel aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) from intracellular storage vesicles to the apical plasma membra...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Fenton RA,Moeller HB

更新日期：2008-01-01 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