Properties of projections from vestibular nuclei to medial reticular formation in the cat.

abstract：:The corticospinal tract excitability is modulated when preparing movements. Earlier to movement execution, the excitability of the spinal cord increases waiting for supraspinal commands to release the movement. Movement execution and movement observation share processes within the motor system, although movement obser...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Arias P,Robles-García V,Espinosa N,Corral-Bergantiños Y,Mordillo-Mateos L,Grieve K,Oliviero A,Cudeiro J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directional hearing is crucial for animals depending on acoustic signals to locate a mate. We focused on crickets to explore the reliability of directional information forwarded to the brain by the ascending auditory interneuron AN1, which is crucial for phonotactic behavior. We presented calling song from -45° to +45...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lv M,Zhang X,Hedwig B

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flexible behavior requires the ability to delay a response until it is appropriate. This can be achieved by holding either a sensory or a motor representation online. Here we assess whether maintenance of sensory or motor material drives the motor system to different functional states, as indexed by alterations of cor...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： van den Hurk P,Mars RB,van Elswijk G,Hegeman J,Pasman JW,Bloem BR,Toni I

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microelectrode arrays (MEAs) are appealing tools to probe large neural ensembles and build neural prostheses. Microelectronics microfabrication technologies now allow building high-density MEAs containing several hundreds of microelectrodes. However, several major problems become limiting factors when the size of the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Heim M,Rousseau L,Reculusa S,Urbanova V,Mazzocco C,Joucla S,Bouffier L,Vytras K,Bartlett P,Kuhn A,Yvert B

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) has been recognized as an atypical neuronal messenger affecting synaptic transmission, but its cellular source has remained unresolved as the neuronal NO synthase isoform (nNOS) in brain areas such as the neocortex is expressed only by a small subset of inhibitory neurons. The involvement of the glia...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Buskila Y,Amitai Y

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active sensing in biological system consists of emitting/receiving a periodic signal to explore the environment. The signal can be emitted toward distant objects, as in echolocation, or in direct contact with the object, for example, whisking in rodents. We explored the hypothesis that a similar mechanism exists in hu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dione M,Wessberg J

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-type calcium channels couple membrane depolarization in neurons to numerous processes including gene expression, synaptic efficacy, and cell survival. To establish the contribution of L-type calcium channels to various signaling cascades, investigators have relied on their unique pharmacological sensitivity to dihyd...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lipscombe D,Helton TD,Xu W

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noted disruption of thalamocortical connections and abnormalities in tactile sensory function has resulted in a new definition of cerebral palsy (CP) that recognizes the sensorimotor integration process as central to the motor impairments seen in these children. Despite this updated definition, the connection betw...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kurz MJ,Heinrichs-Graham E,Becker KM,Wilson TW

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voice onset time (VOT) is an important parameter of speech that denotes the time interval between consonant onset and the onset of low-frequency periodicity generated by rhythmic vocal cord vibration. Voiced stop consonants (/b/, /g/, and /d/) in syllable initial position are characterized by short VOTs, whereas unvoi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Steinschneider M,Volkov IO,Noh MD,Garell PC,Howard MA 3rd

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potassium-chloride cotransporter 2 (KCC2) plays a role in epileptiform synchronization, but it remains unclear how it influences such a process. Here, we used tetrode recordings in the in vitro rat entorhinal cortex (EC) to analyze the effects of the KCC2 antagonist VU0463271 on 4-aminopyridine (4AP)-induced ictal...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Chen LY,Lévesque M,Avoli M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many critically ill patients in intensive care units suffer from an infection-induced whole body inflammatory state known as sepsis, which causes severe weakness in patients who survive. The mechanisms by which sepsis triggers intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW) remain unclear. Currently, research into ICUAW...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nardelli P,Khan J,Powers R,Cope TC,Rich MM

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Fear conditioning studies have led to the view that the amygdala contains neurons that signal threat and in turn elicit defensive behaviors through their brain stem and hypothalamic targets. In agreement with this model, a prior unit-recording study in rats performing a seminaturalistic foraging task revealed that man...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Amir A,Kyriazi P,Lee SC,Headley DB,Paré D

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate posterior thalamus has been proposed to contribute to pain sensation, but its precise role is unclear. This is in part because spinothalamic tract (STT) neurons that project to the posterior thalamus have received little attention. In this study, antidromic mapping was used to identify individual STT neuro...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Davidson S,Zhang X,Khasabov SG,Simone DA,Giesler GJ Jr

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Effects of hypothalamic stimulation on activity of dorsomedial medulla neurons that responded to subdiaphragmatic vagal stimulation were investigated in urethan-anesthetized rats. 2. Extracellular recordings were made from 231 neurons in the nucleus of the tractus solitarius (NTS) that fired repetitively in respons...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nishimura H,Oomura Y

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The turtle posterior crista consists of two hemicristae. Each hemicrista extends from the planum semilunatum to the nonsensory torus and includes a central zone (CZ) surrounded by a peripheral zone (PZ). Type I and type II hair cells are found in the CZ and are innervated by calyx, dimorphic and bouton afferents. Only...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brichta AM,Goldberg JM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of how the nervous system fuses sensory information from multiple modalities for upright stance control remains largely unsolved. It is well established that the visual, vestibular, and somatosensory modalities provide position and rate (e.g., velocity, acceleration) information for estimation of body dyna...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Jeka J,Kiemel T,Creath R,Horak F,Peterka R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Preliminary to extending a point process model of lateral superior olive (LSO) unit activity to describe the units' binaural responses, the statistical properties of their discharges to binaural tone bursts were studied. The hypothesis that stimulation of the contralateral ear results in the simple reduction of the...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Tsuchitani C

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In chronically prepared, freely moving rats, electrical stimulation was applied to the angular bundle, and responses were recorded extracellularly at a variety of sites in the ipsilateral hippocampal formation. At each recording site the stimulus-response relationship was tested during four different behavioral sta...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Winson J,Abzug C

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hierarchical models of auditory processing often posit that optimal stimuli, i.e., those eliciting a maximal neural response, will increase in bandwidth and decrease in modulation rate as one ascends the auditory neuraxis. Here, we tested how bandwidth and modulation rate interact at several loci along the human centr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Overath T,Zhang Y,Sanes DH,Poeppel D

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many rhythmic neuronal networks that operate in a wide range of frequencies, the time of neuronal firing relative to the cycle period (the phase) is invariant. This invariance suggests that when frequency changes, firing time is precisely adjusted either by intrinsic or synaptic mechanisms. We study the maintenance...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Manor Y,Bose A,Booth V,Nadim F

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Properties, developmental regulation, and cAMP modulation of the hyperpolarization-activated current (I(h)) were investigated by the whole cell patch-clamp technique in vestibular ganglion neurons of the rat at two postnatal stages (P7-10 and P25-28). In addition, by RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry the identity and di...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Almanza A,Luis E,Mercado F,Vega R,Soto E

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our continuous perception of the world could be the result of discrete sampling, where individual snapshots are seamlessly fused into a coherent stream. It has been argued that endogenous oscillatory brain activity could provide the functional substrate of cortical rhythmic sampling. A new study demonstrates that cort...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Helfrich RF

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular mechanisms underlying learning and memory were investigated in the octopus using a brain slice preparation of the vertical lobe, an area of the octopus brain involved in learning and memory. Field potential recordings revealed long-term potentiation (LTP) of glutamatergic synaptic field potentials similar to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hochner B,Brown ER,Langella M,Shomrat T,Fiorito G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that daily, moderate-level sound exposure, or conditioning, can reduce injury from a subsequent high-level noise exposure. We tested the hypothesis that this conditioning produces an increased activity in the olivocochlear efferent reflex, a reflex known to provide protection to the cochlea...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brown MC,Kujawa SG,Liberman MC

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight predictions used to scale lifting forces adapt quickly when repeatedly lifting unusually weighted objects and are readily updated by explicit information provided about weight. In contrast, weight predictions used when making perceptual judgments about weight are more resistant to change and are largely unaffec...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Trewartha KM,Flanagan JR

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinotopy is a fundamental organizing principle of the visual cortex. Over the years, a variety of techniques have been used to examine it. None of these techniques, however, provides a way to rapidly characterize retinotopy, at the submillimeter range, in alert, behaving subjects. Voltage-sensitive dye imaging (VSDI...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Yang Z,Heeger DJ,Seidemann E

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Express saccades represent the fastest possible eye movements to visual targets with reaction times that approach minimum sensory-motor conduction delays. Previous work in monkeys has identified two specific neural signals in the superior colliculus (SC: a midbrain sensorimotor integration structure involved in gaze c...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Marino RA,Levy R,Munoz DP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the framework of the uncontrolled manifold (UCM) hypothesis to explore changes in the structure of variability in multifinger force-production tasks when a secondary task was introduced. Healthy young subjects produced several levels of the total force by pressing with the four fingers of the hand on force sen...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zhang W,Scholz JP,Zatsiorsky VM,Latash ML

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its widespread use, high-resolution imaging with multiphoton microscopy to record neuronal signals in vivo is limited to the surface of brain tissue because of limited light penetration. Moreover, most imaging studies do not simultaneously record electrical neural activity, which is, however, crucial to unders...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hirai Y,Nishino E,Ohmori H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00