abstract：:The cytoarchitecture and the histochemistry of nucleus prepositus hypoglossi and its afferent and efferent connections to oculomotor structures are described. The functional significance of the afferent connections of the nucleus is discussed in terms of current knowledge of the firing behavior of prepositus neurons i...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： McCrea RA,Horn AK

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans can communicate their emotional state via facial expression and affective prosody. This chapter reviews behavioural, neuroanatomical, electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies pertaining to audiovisual integration of emotional communicative signals. Particular emphasis will be given to neuroimaging studies ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ethofer T,Pourtois G,Wildgruber D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter reviews research that focuses on the effects of emotionality of single words, and of simple phrases, on event-related brain potentials when these are presented visually in various tasks. In these studies, presentation of emotionally evocative language material has consistently elicited a late (c. 300-600 ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Fischler I,Bradley M

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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 ability to form tenable hypotheses regarding the neurobiological basis of normative functions as well as mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders is often limited by the highly complex brain circuitry and the cellular and molecular mosaics therein. The brain is an intricate structure ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ginsberg SD,Mirnics K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When discrepant stimuli are presented to each eye and fusion is impossible, perception spontaneously oscillates between the two patterns (binocular rivalry). Functional MRI (fMRI) research identified a frontoparietal network in the right hemisphere associated with perceptual transitions, and it has been proposed that ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Valle-Inclán F,Gallego E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic status varies predictably on a daily and seasonal basis in order to adapt to the cyclical environment. The hypothalamic circadian pacemaker of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) co-ordinates these metabolic cycles. Circadian timing is based upon a transcriptional/post-translational negative feedback loop invol...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Maywood ES,O'Neill J,Wong GK,Reddy AB,Hastings MH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, hypothalamic circuits have been described that impact energy homeostasis in rodents and humans. Our drug development efforts for the treatment of obesity and the metabolic syndrome have largely focused on selected genetic and/or pharmacologically validated pathways. The translation of these pathw...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Van der Ploeg LH,Kanatani A,MacNeil D,Ming Fong T,Strack A,Nargund R,Guan XM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of spinal cord injury on an individual's gastrointestinal tract function is often poorly understood by the general public and also by those involved with persons with spinal cord injury. This chapter reviews the anatomy, physiology and function of the gastrointestinal tract, with particular emphasis on neur...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chung EA,Emmanuel AV

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of urinary tract dysfunction is crucial for the health and well-being of people with spinal cord injury. Devices, specifically catheters, play an important role in the daily regime of bladder management for most people with spinal cord injury. However, the high incidence of complications associated with...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gaunt RA,Prochazka A

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Although the perception of our world is experienced as effortless, the processes that underlie object recognition in the brain are often difficult to determine. In this chapter, we review the effects of familiarity on the recognition of moving or static objects. In particular, we concentrate on exemplar-level stimuli ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Bülthoff I,Newell FN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniature eye movements occur involuntarily during visual fixation. The most prominent contribution to these fixational eye movements is generated by microsaccades, which are rapid small-amplitude saccades with a rate of about one per second. Recent work demonstrates that microsaccades are optimized to counteract perc...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Engbert R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinogeniculate connections are one of the most striking examples of connection specificity within the visual pathway. In almost every connection there is one dominant afferent cell per geniculate cell, and both afferent and geniculate cells have very similar receptive fields. The remarkable specificity and strength ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Alonso JM,Yeh CI,Weng C,Stoelzel C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain processing of pain in humans is based on multiple ascending pathways and brain regions that are involved in several pain components, such as sensory, immediate affective, and secondary affective dimensions. These dimensions are processed both serially and in parallel. They include spinal ascending pathways that ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Price DD,Verne GN,Schwartz JM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor tyrosine kinase B, TrkB, is the high-affinity receptor for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Much evidence supports a role for TrkB signaling in excitatory synapse formation. There have been a number of recent advances in understanding the cell biology of TrkB-mediated excitatory synaptogenesis. T...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Luikart BW,Parada LF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study cerebral activity related to preparation and execution of movement, evoked and induced brain electrical activities were compared to each other and to fMRI results in voluntary self-paced movements. Also, the event-related desynchronization and synchronization (ERD/ERS) were studied in complex movemen...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Rektor I,Sochůrková D,Bocková M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the neural efficiency hypothesis, brighter individuals might be characterized by lower and topographically more differentiated brain activation than less intelligent individuals, presumably reflecting a more specialized recruitment of task-related areas. The findings of several studies analyzing the event...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Neubauer AC,Fink A,Grabner RH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main topic of this overview is an analysis of the concepts of phase and synchrony, as used in neurophysiology, in their various meanings. A number of notions related to the concepts of phase and synchrony, which are incorporated in contemporary neurophysiology, particularly in the domain of neuro-cognitive physiol...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lopes da Silva FH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium binding proteins, such as calretinin, are abundantly expressed in distinctive patterns in the central nervous system but their physiological function remains poorly understood. Calretinin is expressed in cerebellar granule cells which provide the major excitatory input to Purkinje cells through parallel fibers...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gall D,Roussel C,Nieus T,Cheron G,Servais L,D'Angelo E,Schiffmann SN

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local recurrent connections endow the cerebellar cortex with an intrinsic dynamics. We performed computer simulations to predict the frequency bands of the oscillations that will most likely emerge. Feedback inhibition from the Golgi to the granule cells induced 10-50 Hz oscillations, the period at resonance being app...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Maex R,De Schutter E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By blocking electrical activity in the cerebellar cortex the Purkinje cell dendrites become a uniform territory with a high density of spines all bearing the glutamate receptor delta2 subunit (GluRdelta2) and being mainly innervated by parallel fibers. Such a subunit, which is constitutively targeted specifically to t...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Cesa R,Strata P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paired organotypic explants from rat occipital cortex were cultured for up to three weeks in the presence of selective blockers of amino acid receptor blockers, during which period spontaneous action potential generation was monitored electrophysiologically. In contrast to isolated explants (Corner, M.A., van Pelt, J....

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Corner MA,Baker RE,van Pelt J,Wolters PS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular dominance plasticity may be the paradigmatic in vivo model of activity-dependent plasticity. More than four decades of intense research has delineated the network-level rules that govern synaptic change in this model. The recent characterization of a murine model for ocular dominance plasticity has facilitated ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Taha SA,Stryker MP

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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：:Epileptic seizures cause dynamic, reversible changes in brain function and are often associated with loss of consciousness. Of all seizure types, absence seizures lead to the most selective deficits in consciousness, with relatively little motor or other manifestations. Impaired consciousness in absence seizures is no...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Blumenfeld H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that human cognitive functions can be addressed from a robust neuroscience perspective. In particular, the distributed coherent electrical properties of central neuronal ensembles are considered to be a promising avenue of inquiry concerning global brain functions. The intrinsic oscillator...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ribary U

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex migrations of neurons born in the dorsal neural tube of the isthmic and rhombomere l (rl) domains complicate the delineation of the cerebellar primordium. We show that Purkinje cells (P) are likely generated over a wide territory before gathering in the future cerebellar primordium under the developing ext...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Narboux-Nême N,Louvi A,Alexandre P,Wassef M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a decade ago, Goodale and Milner proposed that our perceptual experience of the world depends on visual processing that is fundamentally distinct from that mediating the moment-to-moment visual control of our actions. They mapped this distinction between vision-for-perception and vision-for-action onto the t...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Goodale MA,Króliczak G,Westwood DA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the visual thalamic relays, the lateral geniculate nucleus and pulvinar, provide three key properties that have dramatically changed the view that the thalamus serves as a simple relay to get information from subcortical sites to cortex. First, the retinal input, although a small minority (7%) in terms of n...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sherman SM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injuries to the adult mammalian spinal cord often lead to severe damage to both ascending (sensory) pathways and descending (motor) nerve pathways without the perspective of complete functional recovery. Future spinal cord repair strategies should comprise a multi-factorial approach addressing several issues, includin...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hendriks WT,Ruitenberg MJ,Blits B,Boer GJ,Verhaagen J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is a common comorbidity in patients with the metabolic syndrome, a concurrence of cardiovascular risk factors in one individual. While multiple growth factors and adipokines are identified in atherosclerotic lesions, as well as neurotrophins implicated in both ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chaldakov GN,Fiore M,Stankulov IS,Manni L,Hristova MG,Antonelli A,Ghenev PI,Aloe L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) is required for the survival of developing sympathetic and sensory neurons. In the absence of NGF, these neurons undergo protein synthesis-dependent apoptosis. Ten years have gone by since the first reports of specific genes being upregulated during NGF deprivation-induced cell death. Over th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Freeman RS,Burch RL,Crowder RJ,Lomb DJ,Schoell MC,Straub JA,Xie L

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:This chapter reviews four key issues that must be addressed to advance our knowledge of control of head movement by the central nervous system (CNS). (1) Researchers must consider how the CNS utilizes the multiple muscle patterns that can produce the same head movement in carrying out tasks in an optimal way. (2) More...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Peterson BW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While a basic locomotor rhythm is centrally generated by spinal circuits, descending pathways are critical for ensuring appropriate anticipatory modifications of gait to accommodate uneven terrain. Neurons in the motor cortex command the changes in muscle activity required to modify limb trajectory when stepping over ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Drew T,Prentice S,Schepens B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely believed that mammalian CNS axons have little regenerative capacity because their environment is non-permissive to regrowth. This viewpoint is based, in large part, on the fact that in virtually all previous studies on regeneration following spinal cord injury, regenerated axonal projections have been few...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kawaguchi S,Iseda T,Nishio T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing rat spinal cord, formation and differentiation of the central pattern generator for locomotion occur during the prenatal period. Early on, excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by glycine receptors plays a leading role for rhythmogenesis, at a later stage, followed by glutamate-receptor-mediated ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kudo N,Nishimaru H,Nakayama K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00