Population coding in the retina.

abstract：:During the past years, major advances have been made in understanding the sequential events involved in neural plate patterning. Positional information is already conferred to cells of the neural plate at the time of its induction in the ectoderm. The interplay between the BMP- and the Fgf- signaling pathways leads to...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rhinn M,Picker A,Brand M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroeconomics is an interdisciplinary field, crossing boundaries between Economics, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Its original program was to provide a test for a large number of competitive theories of decision making. It has in part realized this program, and we review the main findings here. But its results are al...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rustichini A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly all studies of natural variation within clock genes involve the period (per) locus, which was originally isolated in the fruit-fly. Intra- and interspecific work on per has focused mostly on a region of Thr-Gly or Ser-Gly repeats, which show rapid length and sequence evolution. The functional implications of nu...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Costa R,Kyriacou CP

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What I cannot create I do not understand - Richard Feynman 1978 Because primate cortical development exhibits numerous specific features, the mouse is an imperfect model for human cortical development. Expansion of supragranular neurons is an evolutionary feature characterizing the primate cortex. Increased production...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kennedy H,Wianny F,Dehay C

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell communication directs the development of photoreceptor cells in the Drosophila retina. A recent set of studies has provided a genetic dissection of one of these interactions, the induction of the R7 photoreceptor cell by the neighboring R8 photoreceptor cell. The results from these experiments shape our unde...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Krämer H,Cagan RL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity among progenitor cells in the vertebrate nervous system has been documented with increasing frequency over the past few years. It has become clear that differences in progenitor cells help to determine when and how they respond to environmental signals. More recent studies have begun to elucidate the mol...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lillien L

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:The recent invention of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy brings more than an order of magnitude gain in the spatial resolution of light microscopy. New opportunities keep emerging with the multicolor, three-dimensional, and live imaging functionalities gained in the past three years. The power of this technolo...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dani A,Huang B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual communication can evolve in response to sexual selection, and it can also cause behavioral reproductive isolation between populations and thus drive speciation. Anurans are an excellent system to investigate these links between behavior and evolution because we have detailed knowledge of how neural mechanisms g...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Ryan MJ,Guerra MA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in our understanding of the trafficking of potassium channels can be seen in particular when considering the Kv-type channels. To date, we have discovered that folding of the Kv1.3 T1 domain begins in the ribosomal exit tunnel, and that the cell surface expression of Kv4 channels is enhanced by the pre...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Heusser K,Schwappach B

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This past year has seen significant advances in our understanding of the physiology of emotion. Attention continues to focus on the amygdala and its interconnections with prefrontal cortical regions. New evidence underscores the importance of lateralization for emotion. There are also new findings on the physiological...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Davidson RJ,Sutton SK

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological systems use internal circadian clocks to efficiently organize physiological and behavioral activity within the 24-hour time domain. In the absence of time cues, circadian periods vary slightly from 24 hours, but in nature, ambient light serves as the most salient synchronizer for these rhythms, fine-tuning ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Davidson AJ,Menaker M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used widely to determine the spatial layout of brain activation associated with specific cognitive tasks at a spatial scale of millimeters. Recent methodological improvements have made it possible to determine the latency and temporal structure of the activation at a tem...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Formisano E,Goebel R

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:Pruning, a process by which neurons selectively remove exuberant or unnecessary processes without causing cell death, is crucial for the establishment of mature neural circuits during animal development. Yet relatively little is known about molecular and cellular mechanisms that govern neuronal pruning. Holometabolous...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Yu F,Schuldiner O

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammals have ∼1000 different olfactory receptor subtypes, each responding to a number of different odorants, and each odorant activating a number of different receptor subtypes. These molecular and anatomical underpinnings of olfaction imply a perceptual structure of very high dimensionality that relies on combinatori...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Secundo L,Snitz K,Sobel N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sound is encoded by spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) in the hearing organ, the cochlea, with great temporal, spectral and intensity resolution. When hearing fails, electric stimulation by implanted prostheses can partially restore hearing. Optical stimulation promises a fundamental advance of hearing restoration over el...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Moser T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work on the retinotectal projection clearly establishes the roles of neuronal activity and position-based cues in the patterning of nerve connections. In some species, the high degree of spatial order has been shown to emerge from a continued process of terminal growth and refinement. The future challenge is no...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Fraser SE

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tympanic hearing is a true evolutionary novelty that arose in parallel within early tetrapods. We propose that in these tetrapods, selection for sound localization in air acted upon pre-existing directionally sensitive brainstem circuits, similar to those in fishes. Auditory circuits in birds and lizards resemble this...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Carr CE,Christensen-Dalsgaard J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankyrins are scaffolding proteins widely expressed throughout the nervous system. Ankyrins recruit diverse membrane proteins, including ion channels and cell adhesion molecules, into specialized subcellular membrane domains. These domains are stabilized by ankyrins interacting with the spectrin cytoskeleton. Ankyrin g...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Stevens SR,Rasband MN

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, interest has grown in the ability to manipulate, in a temporally precise fashion, the electrical activity of specific neurons embedded within densely wired brain circuits, in order to reveal how specific neurons subserve behaviors and neural computations, and to open up new horizons on the clinical tr...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bernstein JG,Garrity PA,Boyden ES

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal life is rhythmic. Here we provide an overview of various rhythmic behaviors, connected environmental factors and endogenous mechanisms. We not only cover terrestrial species, but also highlight aquatic environments with typically complex interconnected rhythms. We further address diel, seasonal and potential lu...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Häfker NS,Tessmar-Raible K

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six highly temperature-sensitive ion channels of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family have been implicated to mediate temperature sensation. These channels, expressed in sensory neurons innervating the skin or the skin itself, are active at specific temperatures ranging from noxious cold to burning heat. In a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bandell M,Macpherson LJ,Patapoutian A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies over the past year have revealed two new insights into the role of neuropeptides in the evolution of social behaviors. First, across vertebrate taxa, certain neuropeptide effects appear to be gender-specific. Second, species variations in receptor gene structure can alter neuropeptide receptor dist...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Insel TR,Young LJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated ion channels are composed of pore-forming subunits, as well as auxiliary subunits that modify the functions of these channels. In addition, the channels interact with other modulatory proteins in a more transient manner, although with significant effects on channel activity. Even though many second-messe...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Adelman JP

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of hair cell regeneration in the inner ear of birds provides new optimism that there may be a treatment for hearing and balance disorders. In this review we describe the process of hair cell regeneration in birds; including restoration of function, recovery of perception and what is currently known about...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bermingham-McDonogh O,Rubel EW

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has helped reconcile puzzling results from brainstem transection studies first performed over 60 years ago, which suggested the existence of a sleep-promoting system in the medullary brainstem. It was specifically shown that GABAergic neurons located in the medullary brainstem parafacial zone (PZGABA) are ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Anaclet C,Fuller PM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions cause transmissible and genetic neurodegenerative diseases. Infectious prion particles are composed largely, if not entirely, of an abnormal isoform of the prion protein (PrPSc), which is encoded by a chromosomal gene. Although the PrP gene is single copy, transgenic mice with both alleles of the PrP gene ablat...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Prusiner SB

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:Unravelling the mechanisms of learning and memory can, and should, be tackled at many levels. Discovery of the huge family of odourant receptor genes provided olfaction with 'molecular' respectability similar to that afforded to the visual system. Consequently, molecular studies have dominated the olfactory literature...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Keverne EB

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00