abstract：:In the past, medicine was dominated by acute diseases. Since treatments were unknown to patients they followed their medical doctors´ directives-at least for the duration of the disease. Behavior was thus largely motivated by avoiding expected costs associated with alternative behaviors (I-must). The health challenges...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Knecht S,Kenning P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is considered to be an important and frequent factor in motivation problems. However, this term lacks clinical and pathophysiological validity. Semantic precision has to be improved. Lack of drive and tiredness with increased sleepiness as observed in fatigue in the context of inflammatory and immunological pr...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hegerl U,Ulke C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular interface of the brain is distinct from that of the peripheral tissue in that astrocytes, the most numerous glial cell type in the gray matter, cover the vasculature with their endfeet. This morphological feature of the gliovascular junction has prompted neuroscientists to suggest possible functional role...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Nuriya M,Hirase H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAergic interneurons of the parvalbumin-positive fast-spiking basket cells subtype (PV INs) are important regulators of cortical network excitability and of gamma oscillations, involved in signal processing and cognition. Impaired development or function of PV INs has been associated with epilepsy in various animal ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Jiang X,Lachance M,Rossignol E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swallowing is an essential function in our daily life; nevertheless, stroke or other neurodegenerative diseases can cause the malfunction of swallowing function, ie, dysphagia. The objectives of this review are to understand the neural and cortical basis of swallowing and tongue, and review the latest techniques on th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Yang H,Ang KK,Wang C,Phua KS,Guan C

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Since the sample size of a typical neuroimaging study lacks sufficient statistical power to explore unknown genomic associations with brain phenotypes, several international genetic imaging consortia have been organized in recent years to pool data across sites. The challenges and achievements of these consortia are c...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Mackey S,Kan KJ,Chaarani B,Alia-Klein N,Batalla A,Brooks S,Cousijn J,Dagher A,de Ruiter M,Desrivieres S,Feldstein Ewing SW,Goldstein RZ,Goudriaan AE,Heitzeg MM,Hutchison K,Li CS,London ED,Lorenzetti V,Luijten M,Mart

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this chapter, we explore what happens in the brain of an expert musician during performance. Understanding expert music performance is interesting to cognitive neuroscientists not only because it tests the limits of human memory and movement, but also because studying expert musicianship can help us understand skil...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Brown RM,Zatorre RJ,Penhune VB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arts can provide unique ways for determining how people not directly involved in medicine were viewing and informing others about physical and mental disorders. With operas, one need only think about how various perturbations of madness have been portrayed. Somnambulism has long been a particularly perplexing diso...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Finger S,Sironi VA,Riva MA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epileptologically informed in-depth analysis of auto- and heteroanamnestic historical sources supports the hypothesis that Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) might have suffered from a photosensitive idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndrome with absences, absence status, myoclonic seizures, and bilateral tonic-clonic seiz...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Altenmüller DM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regaining any locomotor function after spinal cord injury is not only of immediate importance for affected patients but also for clinical research as it allows to investigate mechanisms underlying motor impairment and locomotor recovery. Clinical scores inform on functional outcomes that are clinically meaningful to v...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Awai L,Curt A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was generally accepted by the early 1960s that proton beam radiosurgery was too complex and impractical. The need was seen for a new machine. The beam design had to be as good as a proton beam. It was also decided that a static design was preferable even if the evolution of that notion is no longer clear. Complex c...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ganz JC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral malformations are best understood as abnormal tissue morphogenesis in the context of disorders of ontogenesis. In neuroembryology, the timing of onset and duration of abnormal genetic expression and neurodevelopmental processes are primordial and must always be assessed, regardless whether the dysgenesis is p...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sarnat HB,Flores-Sarnat L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH) triggers a form of respiratory plasticity known as long-term facilitation (LTF), which is manifested as a progressive increase in respiratory motor activity that lasts for minutes to hours after the hypoxic stimulus is removed. Respiratory LTF has been reported in numerous animal model...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Reid IM,Solomon IC

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:An essential component of the brain extracellular space is the extracellular matrix contributing to the spatial assembly of cells by binding cell-surface adhesion molecules, supporting cell migration, differentiation, and tissue development. The most interesting and complex functions of the central nervous system are ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Morawski M,Filippov M,Tzinia A,Tsilibary E,Vargova L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive control and decision making are two important research areas in the realm of higher-order cognition. Control processes such as interference control and monitoring in cognitive and affective contexts have been found to influence the process of decision making. Development of control processes follows a gradua...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kar BR,Vijay N,Mishra S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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

abstract：:Artistic ability and creativity are defining characteristics of human behavior. Behavioral neurology, as a specialty, believes that even the most complex behaviors can be modeled and understood as the summation of smaller cognitive functions. Literature from individuals with specific brain lesions has helped to map ou...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Miller ZA,Miller BL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:John Bell, brother-surgeon of Charles Bell, was, like Charles, an outstanding surgeon and a good artist. John was one of the few who illustrated his work with their own drawings in the days before audiovisual aids were available and without the benefit of reliable drawing aids, photography and computer-aided design. C...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gardner-Thorpe C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A persistent nineteenth-century urban legend was the notion that photograph-like images of the last-seen object or person would be preserved in the eyes of the dead. This popular notion followed technological developments (the daguerreotype and ophthalmoscope) that antedated by decades a basic understanding of retinal...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lanska DJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Basic tendencies to detect and respond to significant events are present in the simplest single cell organisms and persist throughout all invertebrates and vertebrates. Within vertebrates, the overall brain plan is highly conserved, though differences in size and complexity also exist. The forebrain differs the most b...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： LeDoux JE

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Primates are endowed with a brain about twice the size that of a mammal with the same body size, and humans have the largest brain relative to body size of all animals. This increase in brain size may be related to the acquisition of higher cognitive skills that permitted more complex social interactions, the evolutio...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Aboitiz F,Montiel JF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cells (SCs), when implanted in the injured spinal cord, support regeneration of axons, myelinate or ensheathe regenerated axons in a normal way, reduce cyst formation in the injured tissue, reduce secondary damage of tissue around the initial injury site, and modestly improve limb movements. If SC transplantat...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Wiliams RR,Bunge MB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic potential of stem cells for regeneration after cerebral lesion has become of great interest. This is particularly so for neurodegenerative diseases as well as for stroke. Contrary to more conventional, cerebroprotective treatment approaches, the focus of regeneration lies in a longer time window during...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Adamczak J,Hoehn M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter reviews the neurological phenotype of Down syndrome (DS) in early development, childhood, and aging. Neuroanatomic abnormalities in DS are manifested as aberrations in gross brain structure as well as characteristic microdysgenetic changes. As the result of these morphological abnormalities, brain circuit...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lott IT

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo functional imaging has provided objective evidence for the integration and function of nigral grafts in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease. Clinical trials with the use of positron emission tomography have shown that transplants of human dopamine-rich fetal ventral mesencephalic tissue can survive...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Politis M,Piccini P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to silence, in a temporally precise fashion, the electrical activity of specific neurons embedded within intact brain tissue, is important for understanding the role that those neurons play in behaviors, brain disorders, and neural computations. "Optogenetic" silencers, genetically encoded molecules that, ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chow BY,Han X,Boyden ES

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although circannual rhythms controlling different physiological processes and various aspects of behavior have been reported in numerous organisms, our understanding of the underlying biological mechanisms is still quite limited. We examined the mechanisms controlling the circannual pupation rhythm of the varied carpe...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Miyazaki Y,Nisimura T,Numata H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of the molecular basis of mammalian circadian rhythms has progressed dramatically in recent years through the characterization of mouse mutants. With the implementation of numerous mouse genetics programs, comprehensive sets of mutations in genes affecting circadian output measures have been generated. Alt...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Anand SN,Edwards JK,Nolan PM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, the circadian system is composed of the central clock in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei and of peripheral clocks that are located in other neural structures and in cells of the peripheral tissues and organs. In adults, the system is hierarchically organized so that the central clock provides the o...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sumova A,Sladek M,Polidarova L,Novakova M,Houdek P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout life, thalamocortical (TC) network alternates between activated states (wake or rapid eye movement sleep) and slow oscillatory state dominating slow-wave sleep. The patterns of neuronal firing are different during these distinct states. I propose that due to relatively regular firing, the activated states p...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Timofeev I

更新日期：2011-01-01 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

abstract：:Normal brain function requires constant adaptation as an organism interacts with the environment and learns to associate important sensory stimuli with appropriate motor actions. Neurological disorders may disrupt these learned associations, potentially requiring new functional pathways to be formed to replace the los...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Rebesco JM,Miller LE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristic features of autism include atypical social perception and social-communication skills, and atypical visual attention, alongside rigid and repetitive thinking and behavior. Debate has focused on whether the later emergence of atypical social skills is a consequence of attention problems early in life, or...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Elsabbagh M,Holmboe K,Gliga T,Mercure E,Hudry K,Charman T,Baron-Cohen S,Bolton P,Johnson MH,BASIS Team.

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past three decades, developmental neurobiologists have made tremendous progress in defining basic principles of brain development. This work has changed the way we think about how brains develop. Thirty years ago, the dominant model was strongly deterministic. The relationship between brain and behavioral dev...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Stiles J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial scar encapsulation is thought to be one of the major reasons for the failure of chronic brain-machine interfaces. Many strategies, including modification of the probe surface chemistry, delivery of anti-inflammatory drugs, and changes of probe geometry, have been employed to reduce glial scar formation. We have ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ouyang L,Green R,Feldman KE,Martin DC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three rhythmic movements, breathing, walking, and chewing, are considered from the perspective of the emerging factors that control their coordination. This takes us beyond the concept of a core excitatory kernel and into the common principles that govern the interaction between components of the neural networks that ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Jordan LM,Sławińska U

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00