Molecular genetic approaches to puerperal psychosis.

abstract：:Neural transplantation has emerged as a possible therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD). Clinical studies performed during the 1990s, where dopaminergic neurons derived from the human embryonic brain were transplanted into striatum of patients with PD, provided proof-of-principle that long-lasting therapeutic benefits c...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Brundin P,Barker RA,Parmar M

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Aromatase is the enzyme that catalyzes the last step of estrogen biosynthesis. It is expressed in many tissues such as the gonads, brain and adipose tissue. The regulation of the level and activity of aromatase determines the levels of estrogens that have endocrine, paracrine and autocrine effects on tissues. Estrogen...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Boon WC,Chow JD,Simpson ER

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the past research on how reward motivation and emotional information influence brain and behavior has been conducted separately. Recently, a few behavioral and brain imaging studies have investigated how reward and emotional information co-jointly impact brain and behavior. The present chapter reviews findings...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Padmala S,Sambuco N,Pessoa L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has outlined how self-regulation is crucial to the decision-making processes and pacing of endurance performance. There is evidence to suggest that executive function is implicated in self-regulatory processes, as the two are conceptually similar and share common brain regions such as the prefrontal cortex. T...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hyland-Monks R,Cronin L,McNaughton L,Marchant D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using alternatively labelled (-)-deprenyl (3H label in the ring and 14C in the propargyl group) the distribution of the compound was studied in 15 brain regions and the plasma of rats over a period of 96 h, after oral administration of 1.5 mg/kg of (-)-deprenyl. The compound is rapidly absorbed (within 15-30 min) from...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Magyar K,Lengyel J,Szatmári I,Gaál J

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:There is increasing evidence that human cognitive functions can be addressed from a robust neuroscience perspective. In particular, the distributed coherent electrical properties of central neuronal ensembles are considered to be a promising avenue of inquiry concerning global brain functions. The intrinsic oscillator...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ribary U

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：:The ecological dynamics approach offers new insights to understand how athlete nervous systems are embedded within the body-environment system in sport. Cognitive neuroscience focuses on the neural bases of athlete behaviors in terms of perceptual, cognitive, and motor functions defined within specific brain structure...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Teques P,Araújo D,Seifert L,Del Campo VL,Davids K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A problem for studies of all cortex, including prefrontal cortex, is how to relate results to proposed subdivisions of the brain and how to compare results across species. Investigators have been highly dependent on traditional architectonic maps of neocortex. However, over the last 20 years, other methods, especially...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kaas JH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies provided evidence for neuroendocrine dysregulations in adults with a history of child sexual abuse. This review focuses on neuroendocrine studies in sexually abused children and adolescents, dating from January 1, 1990 to January 1, 2007 and obtained from a systematic Medline Indexed literature search ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Bicanic IA,Meijer M,Sinnema G,van de Putte EM,Olff M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postural instability and falls are common causes of morbidity and mortality in the second most prevalent neurodegenerative condition, Parkinson's disease (PD). Poor understanding of balance dysfunction in PD has hampered the development of novel therapeutic measures for postural instability and balance dysfunction. We...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Beylergil SB,Ozinga S,Walker MF,McIntyre CC,Shaikh AG

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data presented in this paper show that the appropriate tools are now available to study the behavior of PLP and DM20 transcripts engineered with either point mutations or deletion of specific domains. Such studies should begin to provide new insights into the functions of PLP and DM20 and their role in relation to...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lees MB,Smith FI,Dyer CA,Greer JM,Pakaski M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This contribution reviewed the available evidence on the domain-specific and domain-general neurocognitive determinants of children's arithmetic development, other than nonsymbolic numerical magnitude processing, which might have been overemphasized as a core factor of individual differences in mathematics and dyscalc...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Vanbinst K,De Smedt B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have brought a rapid growth in knowledge of the prodromal phase of Parkinson's disease (PD). It is now clear that the clinical phase of PD is preceded by a phase of progressing neurodegeneration lasting many years. This involves not only central nervous system structures outside the substantia nigra and n...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Schaeffer E,Postuma RB,Berg D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present results of a study of torsional eye movements evoked by earth-vertical accelerations along the subject's longitudinal axis. The earth-vertical stimulus leads to a gravito-inertial acceleration vector that changes magnitude but not direction. It can therefore be viewed as a dynamic change of the gravity leve...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Olasagasti I,Bockisch CJ,Zee DS,Straumann D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive method used to induce electrical current in the brain through impulses of strong magnetic fields applied externally. The technique can relieve tinnitus by modulating the excitability of neurons in the auditory cortex to decrease the hyperexcitabilit...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kleinjung T,Steffens T,Londero A,Langguth B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of chimeric retinas has yielded insight on the early development of retina. The close match in chimerism ratios between right and left retinas is significant and supports the idea that both retinas originate from a common population of progenitors. We are able to estimate numbers of progenitor cells that con...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Goldowitz D,Rice DS,Williams RW

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated microglia release a number of substances, the specific cocktail released depending on the stimulus. Many of the substances released by microglia also serve to activate them, suggesting the presence of a number of autocrine/paracrine loops. Because of the low density of microglia present in the normal brain, ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Pocock JM,Liddle AC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BBB is a target for some peptide signals, as demonstrated by our group for arginine-vasopressin (AVP) and atriopeptin (ANP). Peptide molecules contacting the luminal surface of endothelial cells interact with specific high-affinity binding sites. The minimal simple diffusion of peptide molecules across the layer o...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ermisch A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular and ionic mechanisms that generate the rhythm in central pattern generator (CPG) networks for simple movements are not well understood. Using vertebrate locomotion, respiration and mastication as exemplars, I describe four main principles of rhythmogenesis: (1) rhythmogenic ionic currents underlie all CPG...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Harris-Warrick RM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 1660s and 1670s, Thomas Willis (1621-1675) pursued an ambitious program of brain science. Instead of the speculative approach favored by René Descartes (1596-1659), Willis used comparative anatomy to figure out the workings of the brain and nerves. As a result, Willis is still cited by science writers as th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Wragge-Morley A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human evolution was marked by an extraordinary increase in total brain size relative to body size. While it is certain that increased encephalization is an important factor contributing to the origin of our species-specific cognitive abilities, it is difficult to disentangle which aspects of human neural structure and...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sherwood CC,Bauernfeind AL,Bianchi S,Raghanti MA,Hof PR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results reported here confirm and extend those of early retrograde transport studies of the brainstem in the rat and cat. This study demonstrates substantial and multiple afferent projections to the cat locus coeruleus arising from neurons containing acetylcholine, serotonin, norepinephrine, epinephrine, dopamine, his...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sakai K

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea of the dentate gyrus as a gate or filter at the entrance to the hippocampus, blocking or filtering incoming excitation from the entorhinal cortex, has been an intriguing one. Here we review the historical development of the idea, and discuss whether it may be possible to be more specific in defining this gate...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hsu D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For diagnostic purposes, a differentiation can be made between the locus coeruleus (LC) in normal brain and the LC, in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) and Parkinson's disease (PD). The differentiation is based on findings concerning the morphological alterations of the TH-immunoreactive; neurons, on the...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chan-Palay V

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic-neurohypophysial system undergoes dramatic morphological plasticity in response to physiological activation during parturition/lactation and dehydration, including somatic swelling, decreased glial coverage and increased synaptic innervation of the magnocellular neuroendocrine cells. Recent in-vitro e...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Tasker JG,Di S,Boudaba C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the superior colliculus in attending and orienting to sensory stimuli is facilitated by the presence within this midbrain nucleus of superimposed maps of different sensory modalities. We have studied the steps involved in the development of topographically-aligned maps of visual and auditory space in the f...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： King AJ,Schnupp JW,Carlile S,Smith AL,Thompson ID

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) have the ability to integrate information from different senses to profoundly increase their sensitivity to external events. This not only enhances an organism's ability to detect and localize these events, but to program appropriate motor responses to them. The surviva...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Stein BE,Rowland BA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00