A multi-channel, implantable microdrive system for use with sharp, ultra-fine "Reitboeck" microelectrodes.

abstract：:1. We examined the activity of thermally sensitive trigeminothalamic neurons and nonprojection neurons in the medullary dorsal horn (trigeminal nucleus caudalis) in three monkeys performing thermal and visual detection tasks. 2. An examination of neuronal stimulus-response functions, obtained during thermal-detection ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Maixner W,Dubner R,Kenshalo DR Jr,Bushnell MC,Oliveras JL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful navigation requires a constantly updated neural representation of directional heading, which is conveyed by head direction (HD) cells. The HD signal is predominantly controlled by visual landmarks, but when familiar landmarks are unavailable, self-motion cues are able to control the HD signal via path integ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Yoder RM,Clark BJ,Brown JE,Lamia MV,Valerio S,Shinder ME,Taube JS

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-unit recordings were made from layer II/III anterior piriform cortex (aPCX) neurons in adult Wistar rats to examine odor response patterns to unilaterally and bilaterally delivered stimuli. Isoamyl acetate odor stimulation was presented either unilaterally through tubes inserted into the external nares, or bila...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Wilson DA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many single-unit electrophysiological studies of visual cortex have investigated strong evoked responses to simple stimuli such as oriented gratings. Experiments involving other types of stimuli, such as natural scenes, higher-order features, and surface brightness, produce single-unit responses that are more difficul...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hung CP,Ramsden BM,Roe AW

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The posterior nucleus of thalamus (PO) is a higher-order nucleus involved in sensorimotor processing, including nociception. An important characteristic of PO is its wide range of activity profiles that vary across states of arousal, thought to underlie differences in somatosensory perception subject to attention and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Park A,Li Y,Masri R,Keller A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Here we study the variability in extracellular records of action potentials. Our work is motivated, in part, by the need to construct effective algorithms to classify single-unit waveforms from multiunit recordings. 2. We used microwire electrode pairs (stereotrodes) to record from primary somatosensory cortex of a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fee MS,Mitra PP,Kleinfeld D

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 51 dorsal horn units responsive to heat were isolated and their receptive fields characterized (i.e., response properties and adequate stimuli determined) in pentobarbital-anesthetized, paralyzed rats. In 39 of the 51 units, the descending inhibition of heat-evoked activity produced by focal electrical stim...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Jones SL,Gebhart GF

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odor identification (OI) tests are increasingly used clinically as biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to directly compare the neuronal correlates to identified odors vs. nonidentified odors. Seventeen females with normal olfactory function underwent a functional magnetic re...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kjelvik G,Evensmoen HR,Brezova V,Håberg AK

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of cholecystokinin (CCK) binding and expression of CCK receptors in neonatal rodent spinal cord suggest that CCK may influence neuronal excitability. In patch-clamp recordings from 19/21 ventral horn motoneurons in neonatal (PN 5-12 days) rat spinal cord slices, we noted a slowly rising and prolonged membrane ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Oz M,Yang KH,Shippenberg TS,Renaud LP,O'Donovan MJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EEG oscillations are hypothesized to reflect cyclical variations in the neuronal excitability, with particular frequency bands reflecting differing spatial scales of brain operation. However, despite decades of clinical and scientific investigation, there is no unifying theory of EEG organization, and the role of ongo...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lakatos P,Shah AS,Knuth KH,Ulbert I,Karmos G,Schroeder CE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The discharge of antidromically identified medial rectus and abducens motoneurons was recorded in restrained unanesthesized goldfish during spontaneous eye movements and in response to vestibular and optokinetic stimulation. 2. All medial rectus and abducens motoneurons exhibited a similar discharge pattern. A burs...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pastor AM,Torres B,Delgado-Garcia JM,Baker R

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The physiological properties of cells in the superior olivary complex (SOC) were studied in 400-microns brain slices taken through the mouse auditory brain stem. Coronal sections were prepared from fresh brain tissue and were placed fully submerged in an oxygenated saline solution. The boundaries of the medial nucl...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Wu SH,Kelly JB

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When sudden environmental stimuli signaling threat occur in the portion of space surrounding the body (defensive peripersonal space), defensive responses are enhanced. Recently Bisio et al. (Bisio A, Garbarini F, Biggio M, Fossataro C, Ruggeri P, Bove M. J Neurosci 37: 2415-2424, 2017) showed that a marker of defensiv...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bufacchi RJ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abducens neurons undergo a dose-dependent synaptic blockade (either disinhibition or complete blockade) when tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT) is injected into the lateral rectus muscle at either a low (0.5) or a high dose (5 ng/kg). We studied the firing pattern and recruitment order in abducens neurons both in control and a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pastor AM,Gonzalez-Forero D

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The physiology and pharmacology of the connections made by stress-sensitive campaniform sensilla on the proximal dorsal tibia of a locust hind leg with a fast extensor tibiae motor neuron (FETi) have been examined. 2. Mechanical stimulation of a campaniform sensillum on the anterior surface of the tibia elicited bu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Parker D,Newland PL

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:Foot drop is very common among people with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) and likely stems from SCI that disturbs the corticospinal activation of the ankle dorsiflexor tibialis anterior (TA). Thus, if one can recover or increase the corticospinal excitability reduced by SCI, motor function recovery may be...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Thompson AK,Fiorenza G,Smyth L,Favale B,Brangaccio J,Sniffen J

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many electrophysiologists view neurotransmitter transporters as tiny vacuum cleaners, operating continuously to lower extracellular neurotransmitter concentration to zero. However, this is not consistent with their known behavior, instead only reducing extracellular neurotransmitter concentration to a finite, nonzero ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Richerson GB,Wu Y

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. It has been suggested that passive diffusion is the principal mechanism of the clearance of locally elevated extracellular potassium, K+o, in the cerebral cortex. This concept was based on the assumption that elevated K+ could be modeled as a point source. In the present study, the functional role of passive diffus...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Vern BA,Schuette WH,Thibault LE

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in monkey orbitofrontal cortex (OF) are known to respond to reward-predicting cues with a strength that depends on the value of the predicted reward as determined 1) by intrinsic attributes including size and quality and 2) by extrinsic factors including the monkey's state of satiation and awareness of what ot...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Roesch MR,Olson CR

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans adopt very different head movement strategies for different gaze behaviors, for example, when playing sports versus watching sports on television. Such strategy switching appears to depend on both context and expectation of future gaze positions. Here, we explored the neural mechanisms for such behaviors by tra...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Monteon JA,Avillac M,Yan X,Wang H,Crawford JD

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We perceive objects as permanent and stable despite frequent occlusions and eye movements, but their representation in the visual cortex is neither permanent nor stable. Feature selective cells respond only as long as objects are visible, and their responses depend on eye position. We explored the hypothesis that the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zhu SD,Zhang LA,von der Heydt R

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinal image of visual objects can vary drastically with changes of viewing angle. Nevertheless, our visual system is capable of recognizing objects fairly invariant of viewing angle. Under natural viewing conditions, different views of the same object tend to occur in temporal proximity, thereby generating tempo...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Michler F,Eckhorn R,Wachtler T

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While it has been well established that optostatic and optokinetic cues contribute to the perception of vertical, it is unclear how the brain processes their combined presence with the nonvisual vestibular cues. Using a psychometric approach, we examined the percept of vertical in human participants (n = 17) with thei...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Niehof N,Perdreau F,Koppen M,Medendorp WP

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular discharges from single neurons in the internal segment of the globus pallidus (GPi) were recorded and analyzed for rate changes associated with visually guided forearm rotations to four different targets. We sought to examine how GPi neurons contribute to movement preparation and execution. Unit discharg...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gdowski MJ,Miller LE,Parrish T,Nenonene EK,Houk JC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In primates, dorsolateral areas of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) play a major role in visuospatial working memory. To examine the functional organization of the PFC for representing visuospatial working memory, we produced reversible local inactivation, with the local injection of muscimol (5 microg, 1 microl), at vario...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sawaguchi T,Iba M

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyramidal cells in the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) show three characteristic discharge patterns in response tones: pauser, buildup, and regular firing. Experimental evidence suggests that a rapidly inactivating K+ current (I(KIF)) plays a critical role in generating these discharge patterns. To explore the role of I...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kanold PO,Manis PB

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Taste buds in catfish are found not only within the oropharyngeal cavity, as in mammals, but are also located along the external body surface of the animal from the barbels and lips to the caudal fin. Because these taste buds are innervated by the facial (cranial VII) nerve, the extraoral taste system of catfish is...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Michel W,Caprio J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experiments on slices (from 100- to 150-g Sprague-Dawley rats) kept at 33 degreesC, we studied the effects of brief hypoxia (2-3 min) on CA1 neurons. In whole cell recordings from submerged slices, with electrodes containing only KMeSO4 and N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid, and in the presence of...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Erdemli G,Xu YZ,Krnjević K

更新日期：1998-11-01 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