Emerging principles of intrinsic hippocampal organization.

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD), a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease, is defined by its genetic cause, a CAG-repeat expansion in the HTT gene, its motor and psychiatric symptomology and primary loss of striatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs). However, the molecular mechanisms from genetic lesion to disease phenoty...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Veldman MB,Yang XW

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial interactions are prominent behaviors in primates. Primate facial signaling, which includes the expression of emotions, mimicking of facial movements, and gaze interactions, is visually dominated. Correspondingly, in primate brains an elaborate network of face processing areas exists within visual cortex. But ot...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Brecht M,Freiwald WA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB)-responsive transcription plays a central role in the formation of long-term memory in Drosophila, Aplysia and mice. Agents that disrupt the activity of CREB specifically block the formation of long-term memory, whereas agents that increase the amount or activity of th...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Yin JC,Tully T

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard economic theories conceive homo economicus as a rational decision maker capable of maximizing utility. In reality, however, people tend to approximate optimal decision-making strategies through a collection of heuristic routines. Some of these routines are driven by emotional processes, and others are adjuste...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lee D

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular mechanisms involved in the various stages of transmitter secretion have been studied by perturbing the composition of secretory cells using pharmacological and biochemical agents. An emerging approach is to reconstitute individual steps or the entire sequence of secretion mechanisms in non-secretory cells by...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Alder J,Poo MM

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural oscillations are ubiquitous in olfactory systems of mammals, insects and molluscs. Neurophysiological and computational investigations point to common mechanisms for gamma or odor associated oscillations across phyla (40-100Hz in mammals, 20-30Hz in insects, 0.5-1.5Hz in molluscs), engaging the reciprocal dendr...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kay LM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has helped reconcile puzzling results from brainstem transection studies first performed over 60 years ago, which suggested the existence of a sleep-promoting system in the medullary brainstem. It was specifically shown that GABAergic neurons located in the medullary brainstem parafacial zone (PZGABA) are ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Anaclet C,Fuller PM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow wave activity (SWA) during slow wave sleep (SWS) is the best indicator of the sleep homeostasis. The intensity of the SWA observed during SWS that follows prolonged waking is directly correlated with the duration of prior waking and its intensity decays during SWS suggesting a buildup and a resolution of sleep ne...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Greene RW,Bjorness TE,Suzuki A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circuitry mediating the integration of reward perception and adaptive behavioral responses has been further refined. Recent developments indicate that the nucleus accumbens has a primary role in motivational circuitry, whereas afferents to the nucleus accumbens, in part, subserve distinct functions. Dopaminergic a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kalivas PW,Nakamura M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both mammals and birds can flexibly organize their behavior over time. In mammals, the mental operations generating this ability are called executive functions and are associated with the prefrontal cortex. The corresponding structure in birds is the nidopallium caudolaterale. Anatomical, neurochemical, electrophysiol...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Güntürkün O

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent application of molecular biological techniques to taste cells has led to the identification and cloning of a number of proteins that are involved in signal transduction. Some of these are expressed only in taste cells, whereas others are expressed at higher levels in taste cells than in other, non-sensory l...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Margolskee RF

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep has been universally conserved across animal species. The basic functions of sleep remain unclear, but insufficient sleep impairs memory acquisition and retention in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Sleep is also a homeostatic process that is influenced not only by the amount of time awake, but also by neural...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Donlea JM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding history and the presence of food dramatically alter chemosensory behaviors. Recent results indicate that internal nutritional state can gate peripheral gustatory and olfactory sensory responses to affect behavior. Focusing primarily on recent work in C. elegans and Drosophila, I describe the neuromodulatory me...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sengupta P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past few decades, we have witnessed an impressive gain in the knowledge regarding the basic mechanisms underlying human neuronal migration disorders by the usage of mouse models. Nevertheless, despite the remarkable conservation both in the genetic encoded information and the developmental processes, there ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Reiner O,Parichha A,Sapir T

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent approach in social neuroscience has been the application of formal computational models for a particular social-cognitive process to neuroimaging data. Here we review preliminary findings from this nascent subfield, focusing on observational learning and strategic interactions. We present evidence consistent ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dunne S,O'Doherty JP

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of motor behaviour depends on the differentiation of underlying circuitry. Recent work with the zebrafish brings the simple swimming behaviour of lower vertebrates and their embryos into focus as a suitable model to study the development of motor circuitry and its genetic control. Changes in connectivi...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bate M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent technological advances have enabled the use of different optical methods to activate neurons, including 'caged' glutamate, photoactivation of genetically engineered cascades, and direct two-photon excitation. The ability to use light as a stimulation tool provides, in principle, a non-invasive method for the te...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Callaway EM,Yuste R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that many aspects of reward-guided behaviour can be understood within the framework of a computational account of decision making. The account emphasises representation of expectations about decision outcomes and the revision of future expectations in the light of the prediction error-the discrep...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rushworth MF,Mars RB,Summerfield C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term imprinting is used to refer to biologically relevant learning during a sensitive period defined by a particular developmental stage or physiological state. Although olfactory imprinting may occur at any age, and some of the best-studied paradigms involve adult animals, recent reports of long-term memory for o...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hudson R

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostatic synaptic plasticity remains an enigmatic form of synaptic plasticity. Increasing interest on the topic has fuelled a surge of recent studies that have identified key molecular players and the signaling pathways involved. However, the new findings also highlight our lack of knowledge concerning some of the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Vitureira N,Letellier M,Goda Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of laboratories have recently refined descriptions of temporal response properties, from the auditory periphery to the midbrain. At many levels of the auditory pathway, the role of inhibition in temporal coding of complex sounds is being explored. In addition, quantitative relationships between physiology and...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Carney LH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex steroid hormones exert a profound influence on the sexual differentiation and function of the neural circuits that mediate dimorphic behaviors. Both estrogen and testosterone are essential for male typical behaviors in many species. Recent studies with genetically modified mice provide important new insights into ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wu MV,Shah NM

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interfacing the nervous system with devices able to efficiently record or modulate the electrical activity of neuronal cells represents the underlying foundation of future theranostic applications in neurology and of current openings in neuroscience research. These devices, usually sensing cell activity via microelect...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Scaini D,Ballerini L

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroscience research has become increasingly reliant upon quantitative and computational data analysis and modeling techniques. However, the vast majority of neuroscientists are still trained within the traditional biology curriculum, in which computational and quantitative approaches beyond elementary statistics may...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Goldman MS,Fee MS

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the function of the basal forebrain have focused on cholinergic neurons that project to cortical and limbic structures critical for various cognitive abilities. Recent experiments suggest that these neurons serve a modulatory function in cognition, by optimizing cortical information processing and influenci...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Baxter MG,Chiba AA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss very recent experiments with rodents addressing the idea that long-term memories initially depending on the hippocampus, over a prolonged period, become independent of it. No unambiguous recent evidence exists to substantiate that this occurs. Most experiments find that recent and remote memories are equall...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sutherland RJ,Lehmann H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational models of reinforcement learning (RL) strive to produce behavior that maximises reward, and thus allow software or robots to behave adaptively [1]. At the core of RL models is a learned mapping between 'states'-situations or contexts that an agent might encounter in the world-and actions. A wealth of phy...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lau B,Monteiro T,Paton JJ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide gated (CNG) cation channels are critical for signal transduction in vertebrate visual and olfactory systems. Members of the CNG channel gene family have now been cloned from a number of species, from Caenorhabditis elegans to humans. An important advance has been the discovery that CNG channels are p...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Zufall F,Shepherd GM,Barnstable CJ

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical imaging methods are powerful tools in neuroscience as they can systematically monitor the activity of neuronal populations with high spatiotemporal resolution using calcium or voltage indicators. Moreover, caged compounds and optogenetic actuators enable to optically manipulate neural activity. Among optical m...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Yang W,Yuste R

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal ganglia, with their inhibitory efferents, control motor outputs either directly by their projections to the midbrain motor regions or indirectly through the thalamic nuclei. Neural mechanisms in the basal ganglia act selectively to remove or enhance the inhibition so that different combinations of motor sign...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hikosaka O

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00