Functional and pathophysiological models of the basal ganglia.

abstract：:The hippocampal formation has a unique and highly distributed network of intrinsic connections. What are the principles of organization that govern information flow through this system? The notion that information processing in the hippocampal formation is segregated in autonomous chips or lamellae appears to be incon...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Amaral DG

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabotropic L-glutamate receptors are involved in various forms of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. The use of a new antagonist (LY341495) that blocks all known metabotropic L-glutamate receptors in the brain, together with subtype-selective antagonists, has identified multiple roles both for cloned and novel ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bortolotto ZA,Fitzjohn SM,Collingridge GL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ample evidence suggests that upon their retrieval, items in long-term memory enter a transient special state, in which they might become prone to change. The process that generates this state is dubbed 'reconsolidation'. The dominant conceptual framework in this revitalized field of memory research focuses on whether ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dudai Y

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the presence of neuromodulators in mammalian sensory systems has been noted for some time, a groundswell of evidence has now begun to document the scope of these regulatory mechanisms in several sensory systems, highlighting the importance of neuromodulation in shaping feature extraction at all levels of neur...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hurley LM,Devilbiss DM,Waterhouse BD

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, developmental neuroscience has been transformed by the widespread application of confocal and two-photon fluorescence microscopy. Even greater progress is imminent, as recent innovations in microscopy now enable imaging with increased depth, speed, and spatial resolution; reduced phototoxicity; a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wu Y,Christensen R,Colón-Ramos D,Shroff H

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parenting is essential for survival and wellbeing in many species. Since it can be performed with little prior experience and entails considerable sacrifices without immediate benefits for the caregiver, this behavior is likely orchestrated by evolutionarily shaped, hard-wired neural circuits. At the same time, experi...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kohl J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular processes that mediate learning and memory show a remarkable level of conservation between vertebrates and invertebrates. Recent studies have shown that learning and memory formation in invertebrates, so-called 'simple systems', involves a highly complex arrangement of cellular pathways. Some pathways contrib...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Burrell BD,Sahley CL

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiome - the largest reservoir of microorganisms of the human body - is emerging as an important player in neurodevelopment and ageing as well as in brain diseases including stroke, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The growing knowledge on mediators and triggered pathways has advanced our under...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Benakis C,Martin-Gallausiaux C,Trezzi JP,Melton P,Liesz A,Wilmes P

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crucial role of dopamine (DA) in movement control is illustrated by the spectrum of motor disorders caused by either a deficiency or a hyperactivity of dopaminergic transmission in the basal ganglia. The degeneration of nigrostriatal DA neurons in Parkinson's disease causes poverty and slowness of movement. These ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Cenci MA,Lindgren HS

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：: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：:This review connects several lines of research to argue that hyperbolic geometry should be broadly applicable to neural circuits as well as other biological circuits. The reason for this is that networks that conform to hyperbolic geometry are maximally responsive to external and internal perturbations. These networks...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sharpee TO

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to make accurate predictions of future stimuli and consequences of one's actions are crucial for the survival and appropriate decision-making. These predictions are constantly being made at different levels of the nervous system. This is evidenced by adaptation to stimulus parameters in sensory coding, and...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sharpee TO,Calhoun AJ,Chalasani SH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of movement relies on the precision with which motor circuits are assembled during development. Spinal motor neurons (MNs) provide the trigger to signal the appropriate sequence of muscle contractions and initiate movement. This task is accommodated by the diversification of MNs into discrete subpopulation...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dalla Torre di Sanguinetto SA,Dasen JS,Arber S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heated debate over the level of postsynaptic receptor occupancy by transmitter has not been extinguished - indeed, new evidence is fanning the flames. Recent experiments using two-photon microscopy suggest that the concentration of glutamate in the synaptic cleft does not attain levels previously suggested. In con...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bergles DE,Diamond JS,Jahr CE

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neocortex expansion in development and evolution reflects an increased and prolonged activity of neural progenitor cells. Insight into key aspects of the underlying cell biology has recently been obtained. First, the restriction of apical progenitors to undergo mitosis at the ventricular surface is overcome by generat...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wilsch-Bräuninger M,Florio M,Huttner WB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oscillation in motor pattern generators is driven either by pacemaker neurons with inherent bursting properties or through network interactions. In a few examples in invertebrates and lower vertebrates, the mechanisms by which reciprocal inhibition combines with inherent membrane properties to produce network oscillat...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Calabrese RL

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, work in the nascent field of neuroeconomics has advanced understanding of the brain systems involved in value-based decision making. An important modulator of valuation processes is the specific context a decision maker is facing during choice. Recently, neuroeconomics has made great progress in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Tymula A,Plassmann H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory molecules in CNS myelin affect axonal regeneration after injury. In the past year, myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), a well-characterized myelin protein, has been identified as an inhibitor of axonal regeneration. This finding, together with its established ability to promote outgrowth, defines MAG as a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Filbin MT

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing hypothesis postulates that the striatum is essential for the concurrent selection of adaptive actions and repression of inappropriate alternatives. Here, classical and recent anatomical and physiological studies are reviewed to show that, in mammals, the striatum can detect discrete task-relevant senso...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Robbe D

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:The decision to urinate is a social behavior that is calculated multiple times a day. Many animals perform urine scent-marking which broadcasts their pheromones to regulate the behavior of others and humans are trained at an early age to urinate only at a socially acceptable time and place. The inability to control wh...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Mukhopadhyay S,Stowers L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTEN germline mutations are found in a small subset of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and accompanying macrocephaly. In this review, we discuss recent advances that offer insight into the pathogenesis of this subgroup of autism patients. We provide an overview of how disrupting PTEN function in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Zhou J,Parada LF

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human children benefit from a possibly unique set of adaptations facilitating the acquisition of knowledge about material culture. They represent artifacts (human-made objects) as tools with specific functions and seek for functional information about novel objects. Even young infants pay attention to functionally rel...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hernik M,Csibra G

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine is the specific chemical code of spinal nerve terminal transmission at the mammalian neuromuscular junction (NMJ), whereas nicotinic acetylcholine receptors inserted into the membrane of muscle fibres mediate signalling for the muscle response. Glutamate has a primary role in neuromuscular transmission o...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Pizzi M,Brunelli G,Barlati S,Spano P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory cortical maps have been a long-standing focus of studies that assess the expression, mechanisms, and consequences of sensory plasticity. Here we discuss recent progress in understanding how auditory experience transforms spatially organized sound representations at higher levels of the central auditory pathwa...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Schreiner CE,Polley DB

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroscientists spent decades debating whether synaptic plasticity was presynaptically or postsynaptically expressed. It was eventually concluded that plasticity depends on many factors, including cell type. More recently, it has become increasingly clear that plasticity is regulated at an even finer grained level; it...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Larsen RS,Sjöström PJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroepithelial cells, the progenitors to the CNS neurons and glia, undergo both symmetric and asymmetric divisions. Symmetric divisions underlie the proliferation of neuroepithelial cells that predominates early in CNS development. Asymmetric divisions are thought to generate the cell types derived from neuroepitheli...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Huttner WB,Brand M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the cellular and molecular bases of transduction of painful stimuli has burgeoned in the past year, mainly as a result of studies on isolated sensory neurones in culture. The ion channels underlying neuronal responses to noxious heat, to protons and to ATP have recently been characterized. The typ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Cesare P,McNaughton P

更新日期：1997-08-01 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