abstract：:Glaucoma is an age-related neurodegenerative disease that begins at the onset of aging. In this disease, there is an involvement of the immune system and therefore of the microglia. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the microglial activation using a mouse model of ocular hypertension (OHT) at the onset of aging...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ramírez AI,Fernández-Albarral JA,Hoz R,López-Cuenca I,Salobrar-García E,Rojas P,Valiente-Soriano FJ,Avilés-Trigueros M,Villegas-Pérez MP,Vidal-Sanz M,Triviño A,Salazar JJ,Ramírez JM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have brought a rapid growth in knowledge of the prodromal phase of Parkinson's disease (PD). It is now clear that the clinical phase of PD is preceded by a phase of progressing neurodegeneration lasting many years. This involves not only central nervous system structures outside the substantia nigra and n...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Schaeffer E,Postuma RB,Berg D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord evoked potentials (SCEP) are good indicators of spinal cord function in health and disease. Disturbances in SCEP amplitudes and latencies during spinal cord monitoring predict spinal cord pathology following trauma. Treatment with neuroprotective agents preserves SCEP and reduces cord pathology after injur...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sahib S,Sharma A,Menon PK,Muresanu DF,Castellani RJ,Nozari A,Lafuente JV,Bryukhovetskiy I,Tian ZR,Patnaik R,Buzoianu AD,Wiklund L,Sharma HS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early intervention and environmental optimization have been central to management of Down syndrome (DS) and much of current treatment is still focused in strategies that involve early education plans. This approach has provided significant improvements for Down syndrome but it is not providing a full success. The disc...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Martínez Cué C,Dierssen M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this experiment was to investigate whether there were differences in decision-making skills between different age groups (Under 16, 18 and 23) of elite academy footballers on a video-based task of real-life football scenarios. It also explored the relationship between individual performance on the task and ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Farahani J,Soltani P,Rezlescu C

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Cognitive neuroscience is currently finding itself as a marketing trend in occupational science, particularly in terms of workplace assessment and measurement. However, the field has historically had little to do with occupational applications and has generally remained focused on the clinical and academic relevance o...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Williams H,Lewis J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social cognitive skills play a crucial role in human life, and have allowed us to reach a unique level of behavioral and cultural complexity. However, many nonhuman species also show a complex understanding of the social world. Building on theories of human social development, we will follow the emergence of cultural ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Cacchione T,Amici F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is among the most common and disabling neurological diseases in the world. Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is a wave of near-complete depolarization of neurons and glial cells that slowly propagates along the cortex creating the perception of aura. Evidence suggests that CSD can trigger migraine headache....

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Takizawa T,Ayata C,Chen SP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of consciousness within cognitive neuroscience has been dominated in recent years by investigations originating from collaborations between neuroscientific investigators and Buddhist meditation practitioners. The results have been remarkable, particularly when quantitative and qualitative research methods ha...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Parker S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The description of a biological system using a mathematical model is the most effective means to specify the functioning of a quantitative hypothesis, providing at the same time the ability to make predictions that can be further tested experimentally. The Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR), and more generally the ocular m...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ramat S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential infantile esotropia (EIE) is often attributed to a primary disturbance within the visual cortex based upon the findings of monocular horizontal optokinetic asymmetry and correlative horizontal motion detection asymmetry. However, these physiologic aberrations conform to what would be observed if the visual c...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Brodsky MC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) evaluated by detecting temporal co-variation of BOLD signals across multiple brain regions undergoes three major changes following sleep deprivation that indicate the occurrence of sleep intrusions; a loss of integration within networks like the default mode network as well...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chee MWL,Zhou J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) as a motor disorder is pathologically featured by the loss of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra compacta (SNc) and the consequent depletion of dopamine in the striatum. However, motor signs are detectable when the loss of dopaminergic striatal terminals exceeds to the dopaminergic n...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lafuente JV,Requejo C,Ugedo L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this chapter is to review recent literature describing how developments in cognition may contribute to age-related changes in emotional processes, specifically emotion regulation and emotion perception. In general, older adults are more likely than young adults to report feeling positive. Prominent conceptu...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gurera JW,Isaacowitz DM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the past research on how reward motivation and emotional information influence brain and behavior has been conducted separately. Recently, a few behavioral and brain imaging studies have investigated how reward and emotional information co-jointly impact brain and behavior. The present chapter reviews findings...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Padmala S,Sambuco N,Pessoa L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in neocortex size is one of the defining features of mammalian brain evolution. The paramount assumption has been that neocortex size indicates a monotonic allometric relationship with brain size. This assumption holds the concomitant neurodevelopmental assumption that the ontogenetic trajectory of neocortex...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Smaers JB,Mongle CS,Safi K,Dechmann DKN

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human brain is often characterized in terms of a duality, with the left and right brains serving complementary functions, and even individuals are sometimes classified as either "left-brained" or "right-brained." Recent evidence from brain imaging shows that hemispheric asymmetry is multidimensional, comprised of ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Corballis MC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review neural connections of the superior colliculus (SC) and brainstem saccade-related neurons in relation to saccade generation mechanism. The caudal and rostral SC play a role in saccade generation and visual fixation, respectively. This functional differentiation suggests that different connections should exist...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Shinoda Y,Takahashi M,Sugiuchi Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postural instability and falls are common causes of morbidity and mortality in the second most prevalent neurodegenerative condition, Parkinson's disease (PD). Poor understanding of balance dysfunction in PD has hampered the development of novel therapeutic measures for postural instability and balance dysfunction. We...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Beylergil SB,Ozinga S,Walker MF,McIntyre CC,Shaikh AG

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rebound nystagmus, a common cerebellar sign, is a transient nystagmus that appears on returning to straight-ahead gaze after prolonged eccentric gaze. The slow phases of rebound nystagmus are in the direction of prior eccentric gaze. After eccentric gaze, healthy subjects also show rebound nystagmus when fixation is r...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Otero-Millan J,Colpak AI,Kheradmand A,Zee DS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has outlined how self-regulation is crucial to the decision-making processes and pacing of endurance performance. There is evidence to suggest that executive function is implicated in self-regulatory processes, as the two are conceptually similar and share common brain regions such as the prefrontal cortex. T...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hyland-Monks R,Cronin L,McNaughton L,Marchant D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity to sustain high-intensity aerobic exercise is essential for endurance performance. Therefore, it is important to understand what is the factor limiting time to exhaustion (TTE) in healthy and fit adults. In Study 1, maximal voluntary cycling power (MVCP) was measured in 11 volunteers before and immediatel...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Staiano W,Bosio A,de Morree HM,Rampinini E,Marcora S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficits in motivation are at the core of many neuropsychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD). Research in MDD has been heavily focused on anhedonia and depression or negative/positive symptoms of depression, with less research attention focused on the dysregulation of motivational processes. Op...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Callaghan CK,Rouine J,O'Mara SM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 1660s and 1670s, Thomas Willis (1621-1675) pursued an ambitious program of brain science. Instead of the speculative approach favored by René Descartes (1596-1659), Willis used comparative anatomy to figure out the workings of the brain and nerves. As a result, Willis is still cited by science writers as th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Wragge-Morley A

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Understanding how action perception, embodiment, and emotion interact is essential for advancing knowledge about how we perceive and interact with each other in a social world. One tool that has proved particularly useful in the past decade for exploring the relationship between perception, action, and affect is dance...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kirsch LP,Cross ES

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following chapter offers an overview of results of experimental studies conducted among healthy individuals examining the effects of acute administration of Δ9-THC and other cannabinoids, alone or in combination, on brain function and behavior, also as a function of previous cannabis exposure. In light of their me...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Colizzi M,Bhattacharyya S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand preference is a sensorimotor skill whose development both reflects and promotes the development of hemispheric lateralization for manual and cognitive functions. Extensive comparative, crosscultural, and paleoanthropological evidence demonstrates the prevalence of limb lateralized preferences across vertebrate sp...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Michel GF,Babik I,Nelson EL,Campbell JM,Marcinowski EC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings on nonprimate mammals place the issue of mother-infant lateralized relations in a broader context, demonstrating that humans are one of many species showing this feature. The remarkable interspecies consistency in the direction of lateralization points to a continuity between lateralized mother-infant interac...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Karenina K,Giljov A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological dynamics approach offers new insights to understand how athlete nervous systems are embedded within the body-environment system in sport. Cognitive neuroscience focuses on the neural bases of athlete behaviors in terms of perceptual, cognitive, and motor functions defined within specific brain structure...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Teques P,Araújo D,Seifert L,Del Campo VL,Davids K

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Large-scale neural simulations have the marks of a distinct methodology which can be fruitfully deployed in neuroscience. I distinguish between two types of applications of the simulation methodology in neuroscientific research. Model-oriented applications aim to use the simulation outputs to derive new hypotheses abo...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Serban M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injury (SCI) typically damages the long axonal tracts of the spinal cord which results in permanent disability. However, regeneration of the injured spinal cord is approaching reality according to the advances in stem cell biology. Cell transplantation therapy holds potential to lead to recovery following ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Nori S,Nakamura M,Okano H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerted efforts are realizing cell-based therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD). In this chapter, I describe efforts at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University. These efforts use induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) as donor cells. The iPSCs were established as human leukocyte antig...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Takahashi J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The target article describes an interesting study, which provides some challenging findings regarding athletes' pathway to excellence. The suggested links between critical life events, need for success, personal characteristics, and eventual performance level make sense from a psychodynamic perspective. This commentar...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Toering T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the target article, Hardy and colleagues provided an incisive analysis of retrospectively reported psychosocial factors associated with the development and careers of 32 former athletes from Olympic sports. They found that Super-Elite athletes ("serial" medal winners at major international championships, i.e., Worl...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gucciardi DF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the building blocks of our visual representations? Whatever we look at, the things we see will have some feature variability: even snow is not purely white but has a range of shades of white. However, in most studies investigating visual perception, homogeneous displays with all stimuli having a very limited ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chetverikov A,Campana G,Kristjánsson Á

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When an object partially or completely disappears behind an occluding surface, a representation of that object persists. For example, fragments of no longer visible objects can serve as an input into mid-level constructive visual processes, interacting and integrating with currently visible portions to form perceptual...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： McCarthy JD,Erlikhman G,Caplovitz GP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental time travel (MTT) allows navigation into the past, the future, and the minds of others, and it subserves future-oriented decision-making. Impaired MTT has been associated with a tendency to over-rely on the present, which is a characteristic of addictive behaviors. We here discuss the possible relationship betw...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Noël X,Jaafari N,Bechara A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00