Plasticity in the mediodorsal thalamo-prefrontal cortical transmission in behaving mice.

abstract：:The fastigial oculomotor region is the output by which the medioposterior cerebellum influences the generation of saccades. Recent inactivation studies reported observations suggesting an involvement in their dynamics (velocity and duration). In this work, we tested this hypothesis in the head-restrained monkey with t...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Quinet J,Goffart L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor performance induces a postexercise increase in corticomotor excitability that may be associated with motor learning. We investigated whether there are hemispheric differences in the extent and/or time course of changes in corticomotor excitability following a manipulation task (Purdue pegboard) and their relatio...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Garry MI,Kamen G,Nordstrom MA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow covariations in neuronal resting potentials can lead to artefactually fast cross-correlations in their spike trains. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 3345-3351, 1998. A model of two lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) cells, which interact only through slow (tens of seconds) covariations in their resting membrane potentials, is...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brody CD

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial flushing in rosacea is often induced by trigger events. However, trigger causation mechanisms are currently unclear. This study tested the central hypothesis that rosacea causes sympathetic and axon reflex-mediated alterations resulting in trigger-induced symptomatology. Twenty rosacea patients and age/sex-matc...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Metzler-Wilson K,Toma K,Sammons DL,Mann S,Jurovcik AJ,Demidova O,Wilson TE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The role of the microgeometry of planar surfaces in the detection of sliding of the surfaces on human and monkey fingerpads was investigated. By the use of a servo-controlled tactile stimulator to press and stroke glass plates on passive fingerpads of human subjects, the ability of humans to discriminate the direct...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Srinivasan MA,Whitehouse JM,LaMotte RH

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important new study by Kvarta, Bradbrook, Dantrassy, Bailey, and Thompson (J Neurophysiol 114: 1713-1724, 2015) examined the effects of persistent stress and excessive glucocorticoid levels on hippocampal function and emotional behavior in rodents. The authors specifically implicate the temporoammonic pathway as be...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： McGinn MA,Pahng AR

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole cell patch-clamp recordings were used to investigate the contribution of transient, low-threshold calcium currents (I(T)) to firing properties of hamster spinal dorsal horn neurons. I(T) was widely, though not uniformly, expressed by cells in Rexed's laminae I-IV and correlated with the pattern of action potenti...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ku WH,Schneider SP

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the role of cholinergic inputs to the intermediate layer of the superior colliculus (SC), we examined the effect of microinjection of nicotine into the SC on visually guided saccades in macaque monkeys. After injection of 0.4-2 microl of 1-100 mM nicotine into the SC, frequency of extremely short latency sa...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Aizawa H,Kobayashi Y,Yamamoto M,Isa T

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phasic and tonic motor neurons of crustaceans differ strikingly in their junctional synaptic physiology. Tonic neurons generally produce small excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) that facilitate strongly as stimulation frequency is increased, and normally show no synaptic depression. In contrast, phasic neurons...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nguyen PV,Marin L,Atwood HL

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:Neurons constituting the pacemaker of circadian rhythms, located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, generate spontaneous firing patterns that change across the day-night cycle. Their average spontaneous firing rate is considered an important functional marker of clock activity because it is highest during daytime and low...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pennartz CM,Bierlaagh MA,Geurtsen AM

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of hierarchical motor control has been viewed as a means of progressively decreasing the number of variables manipulated by each higher control level. We tested the hypothesis that turning an individual bimanual force-production task into a joint (two-participant) force-production task would lead to positi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Masumoto J,Inui N

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellar control of orienting behavior toward visual targets was studied in the head-unrestrained cat by analyzing the deficits of saccadic gaze shifts after unilateral injection of muscimol in the caudal part of the fastigial nucleus (cFN). Gaze shifts are rendered strongly inaccurate by muscimol cFN inactivati...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Goffart L,Pélisson D

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used positron emission tomography to study motor learning by trial and error. Subjects learned sequences of eight finger movements. Tones generated by a computer told the subjects whether any particular move was correct or incorrect. A control condition was used in which the subjects generated moves, but there was ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Jueptner M,Frith CD,Brooks DJ,Frackowiak RS,Passingham RE

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many have recently questioned whether all levels of actions understanding, from lower kinematic levels to the higher goal or intention levels of action understanding, are processed in the action observation network (a network of neurons that are active during action execution and observation). A recent study by Wurm a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Marneweck M,Vallence AM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Mechanisms of depolarizing synaptic inhibition were investigated at the crayfish giant motor synapse with the use of two-electrode current- and voltage-clamp techniques. Depolarizing inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (d-IPSPs) of between 5 and 15 mV in amplitude are produced there in the motor giant motoneuron (Mo...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Edwards DH

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord neuronal circuits generate motor neuron activity patterns responsible for rhythmic hindlimb behaviors such as scratching and swimming. Kinematic analyses of limb movements generated by this motor neuron output reveal important characteristics of these behaviors. Intralimb kinematics of the turtle hindlimb ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Field EC,Stein PS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The properties of parietal neurons were studied in four adult rhesus monkeys during fast arm movements. The animals were trained to perform flexion or extension of the forearm about the elbow in response to specific auditory cues. Single neuron activity was recorded in 272 area 5 neurons, 81 neurons of the somatose...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Burbaud P,Doegle C,Gross C,Bioulac B

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Adaptation and disadaptation rates determine the temporal response properties of sensory receptor cells. In chemoreception, temporal filter properties of receptor cells are poorly understood. We studied the time course of disadaptation in lobster antennular chemoreceptor cells by using in situ high-resolution stimu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gomez G,Atema J

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silent synapses are excitatory synapses endowed exclusively with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) responses that have been proposed to acquire alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) responses during development and after long-term potentiation (LTP). These synapses are functionally silent because o...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Losi G,Prybylowski K,Fu Z,Luo JH,Vicini S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Two buccal ganglia interneurons, labeled here as B51 and B52, have been identified on the basis of morphological and physiological criteria. 2. These neurons have multipolar cell bodies. B51 extends a major neurite, which arborizes in the neuropil ipsilateral to the soma; extends into the buccal commissure, where i...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Plummer MR,Kirk MD

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventral pallidum (VP) is a key structure in brain mesocorticolimbic reward circuits that mediate "liking" reactions to sensory pleasures. Do firing patterns in VP actually code sensory pleasure? Strong evidence for hedonic coding requires showing that neural signals track positive increases in sensory pleasure or ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Tindell AJ,Smith KS,Peciña S,Berridge KC,Aldridge JW

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the crayfish abdominal postural motoneurons and their associated neurons (the accessory neuron(s) and the MRO(1)) were examined with the aid of techniques for the analysis of simultaneously recorded spike trains. A means of reliably identifying the spikes of the individual motoneurons based on their re...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sokolove PG,Tatton WG

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prominent characteristic of neurons in the whisker system is their selectivity to the direction in which a whisker is deflected. The aim of this study was to determine how information about whisker direction is encoded at successive levels of the lemniscal pathway. We made extracellular recordings under identical co...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bale MR,Petersen RS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate distinct α- (7-14 Hz) and β-band (15-30 Hz) rhythms in rat somatosensory cortex in vivo using epidural electrocorticography recordings. Moreover, we show in rats that a genuine β-rhythm coexists alongside β-activity that reflects the second harmonic of the arch-shaped somatosensory α-rhythm. This demons...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fransen AM,Dimitriadis G,van Ede F,Maris E

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The caudal mesopallium (CM) is a cortical-level area in the songbird auditory pathway where selective, invariant responses to familiar songs emerge. To characterize the cell types that perform this computation, we made whole cell recordings from brain slices in juvenile zebra finches ( Taeniopygia guttata) of both sex...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Chen AN,Meliza CD

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iontophoresis of glutamate at sites on the apical dendrite 278-555 microm from the somata of rat neocortical pyramidal neurons evoked low-threshold, small, slow spikes and/or large, fast spikes in 71% of recorded cells. The amplitude of the small, slow spikes recorded at the soma averaged 9.1 mV, and their apparent th...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Schwindt PC,Crill WE

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of functional neurotransmitter receptors is an important determinant of neuronal information processing. To map the location of functional glutamate and GABA receptors on individual hippocampal neurons, we photolyzed "caged" glutamate and GABA while measuring the electrical currents resulting from act...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pettit DL,Augustine GJ

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the activity of somatosensory cortex (S1) neurons to self-generated shear forces on the index and thumb, two monkeys were trained to grasp a stationary metal tab with a key grip and exert forces without the fingers slipping in one of four orthogonal directions for 1 s. A majority (∼85%) of slowly adapting a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fortier-Poisson P,Langlais JS,Smith AM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Ca2+ is influenced by both Ca2+ influx and release. We examined intracellular Ca2+ following action potential firing in the bag cell neurons of Aplysia californica. Following brief synaptic input, these neuroendocrine cells undergo an afterdischarge, resulting in elevated Ca2+ and the secretion of neurop...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Geiger JE,Magoski NS

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00