Specificity in the organization of the autonomic nervous system: a basis for precise neural regulation of homeostatic and protective body functions.

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：:Glaucoma is a visual disorder characterized by progressive loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), which is often associated with high intraocular pressure. However, mechanisms of RGC death in glaucoma still remain a mystery. Two theories have been proposed as pathogeneses of glaucoma: mechanical and vascular. We demon...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Seki M,Lipton SA

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:This investigation was designed to study the role of muscarinic receptor subtypes in the cardiovascular responses elicited by microinjection of cholinergic agonists in the intermediate portion of the NTS, the VLPA and VLDA areas and the IML of the spinal cord. Microinjections of L-glutamate (1.77 nmol in 20-50 nl in 0...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sapru HN

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental obstacle to neuroprostheses based on penetrating microstimulation is the tissue's response to the device insertion and to the application of the electrical stimulation. Our long-term goal is to develop multichannel microstimulation of central nervous tissue for clinical therapy. The overall objective o...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Koivuniemi A,Wilks SJ,Woolley AJ,Otto KJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative models of the oculomotor plant and control of the saccadic eye movement system are presented in this chapter. Oculomotor plant models described here are linear, including a second-order model by Westheimer (1954), Bahill et al. (1980) and Enderle et al. (2000). The model of the saccade generator is initia...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Enderle JD

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness all over the world. The degree of visual field loss accounts for the severity of the disease and represents the main clinical outcome of treatment for patients affected by glaucoma. The α2 agonists, like brimonidine, emerged in the 1960s as topical opht...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Scuteri D,Bagetta G,Nucci C,Aiello F,Cesareo M,Tonin P,Corasaniti MT

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a brief review of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) as indices of cortical information processing in conditions in which conscious perception of stimuli is supposed to be absent: sleep, coma, vegetative state, general anesthesia, neglect as well as presentation of subliminal or masked stimuli. Exogenous ER...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kotchoubey B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter provides evidence of spatial and temporal changes in the behavior of neurons within Areas 5 and 4 of the sensorimotor cortex of a nonhuman primate while it was executing a perturbed arm-reaching task. Chronically implanted electrode arrays were used to record simultaneously from 37 to 58 neurons. Also mea...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Weber DJ,He J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Language is predominantly a left hemisphere function, yet patients with extensive damage to known language areas often recover quite well in the days to weeks to even years following focal brain injury. This recovery period can be divided into three overlapping stages: acute, subacute, and chronic, each with different...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Marsh EB,Hillis AE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent increase in the frequency and intensity of killer heat waves across the globe has aroused worldwide medical attention to exploring therapeutic strategies to attenuate heat-related morbidity and/or mortality. Death due to heat-related illnesses often exceeds >50% of heat victims. Those who survive are crippl...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sharma HS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today's researchers are faced with a change from curiosity-driven to mandate-driven research. These two approaches are well combined within scientific networks (Actions) supported by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) program. The functioning of COST Actions, although directed only to networking...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gajović S,Pochet R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unraveling the mysteries of consciousness, lost and regained, and perhaps even intervening so as to prompt recovery are advances for which neither the clinical nor the lay community are prepared. These advances will shake existing expectations about severe brain damage and will find an unprepared clinical context, per...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Fins JJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex hormone effects on hypothalamic neurons have been worked out to a point where receptor mechanisms are relatively well understood, a neural circuit for a sex steroid-dependent behavior has been determined, and several functional genomic regulations have been discovered and conceptualized. With that knowledge in han...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lee AW,Devidze N,Pfaff DW,Zhou J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat subcommissural organ (SCO), which forms the roof of the third ventricle is an adequate model to study certain mechanisms of neuron-glia interactions in vivo. The ependymocytes, the main component of the SCO, have a glial origin. They possess particular phenotypic characteristics: they accumulate [3H]GABA by a ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Didier-Bazes M,Chouaf L,Hardin H,Aguera M,Voutsinos B,Belin MF

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orexin, also known as hypocretin, is a hypothalamic neuropeptide important for mediation of arousal and sleep as well as feeding and energy homeostasis. Recent studies have indicated that orexin also plays a key role regulating motivation and reward associated with food intake and with drugs of abuse. Based on those f...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Di Sebastiano AR,Coolen LM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injuries often lead to disorders in the control of autonomic function, including problems with blood pressure regulation, voiding, defecation and reproduction. The root cause of all these problems is the destruction of brain pathways that control spinal autonomic neurons lying caudal to the lesion. Changes...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Llewellyn-Smith IJ,Weaver LC,Keast JR

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:The Tibetan Buddhist classification of mind, its divisions and the system of meditation practices aimed at achieving ideal states of being are a complex presentation of psychological, behavioral and spiritual concepts and processes that demand thorough understanding before assessing their value and outcome (Yeshe, 199...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Rapgay L,Rinpoche VL,Jessum R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antidepressants are commonly prescribed for tinnitus. Research thus far provides some support for that treatment, but the literature also raises concerns because tinnitus is a side effect of antidepressant medication. In this chapter, four published double blind placebo-controlled trials of antidepressants for tinnitu...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Robinson S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neural-network module with attractor dynamics has been shown recently to be robust to stochastic noise in external and internal signals, and to converge rapidly onto an output signal that is an unbiased and efficient representation of the environment. We suggest here a modular network architecture with attractor dyn...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Krouchev NI,Kalaska JF

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:The febrile reaction is an integrated endocrine, autonomic and behavioral response, coordinated by the hypothalamus, that includes certain components of the stress response, such as elevated corticosteroid secretion. It is produced by the actions of circulating cytokines, such as interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosi...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Saper CB,Breder CD

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：:Evidence for a non-monosynaptic Ia excitation of wrist flexor and quadriceps motoneurones (MNs) in man has been provided while using two independent methods: construction of post-stimulus time histograms (PSTHs) of voluntarily activated motor units and the spatial facilitation of the H-reflex. This non-monosynaptic Ia...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Pierrot-Deseilligny E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter describes current findings from the research into postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) following cardiac and non-cardiac surgery in older adults. The evidence suggests that a significant proportion of patients show POCD in the early weeks following surgery and anesthesia. Specific domains of cogniti...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Caza N,Taha R,Qi Y,Blaise G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and nonhuman primates predictively use smooth pursuit and saccades to track visual targets that move in a fronto-parallel plane. This behaviour is believed to be facilitated by short-term memory of the target motion and/or an efference copy of the subject's motor effort. Subjects in our experiments tracked dicho...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Fu P,Chang R,O'Beirne K,King WM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research points to the notion that athletes have the potential to benefit from difficulty. This phenomenon-otherwise known as growth following adversity-has attracted increasing attention from sport psychology scholars. In this paper, we systematically review and synthesize the findings of studies in this area to bett...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Howells K,Sarkar M,Fletcher D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent eye-tracking research has revealed that spoken language can guide eye gaze very rapidly (and closely time-locked to the unfolding speech) toward referents in the visual world. We discuss whether, and to what extent, such language-mediated eye movements are automatic rather than subject to conscious and controll...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Mishra RK,Olivers CN,Huettig F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00