indirect projections from the suprachiasmatic nucleus to major
... to bregma) according to the brain atlas by Paxinos and Watson (1998): MS-VDB (A 0.7 and A 0.2); HDB (A 0.1 and P 0.3); magnocellular preoptic nucleus (P 0.3 and P 0.8); substantia innominata (P 1.3 and P 1.6); orexin cell group (P 2.8 and P 3.14); tuberomammillary nucleus (dorsal division: P 3.8 and ...
... to bregma) according to the brain atlas by Paxinos and Watson (1998): MS-VDB (A 0.7 and A 0.2); HDB (A 0.1 and P 0.3); magnocellular preoptic nucleus (P 0.3 and P 0.8); substantia innominata (P 1.3 and P 1.6); orexin cell group (P 2.8 and P 3.14); tuberomammillary nucleus (dorsal division: P 3.8 and ...
Cholinergic Cells and Pathways
... employing it successfully (see below, section C). Then an immunocytochemical method was developed for detection of ACh (Geffard et al., 1985); of course, this technique would be most useful in definitive identification of cholinergic neurons and pathways, but there was no follow-up with regard to its ...
... employing it successfully (see below, section C). Then an immunocytochemical method was developed for detection of ACh (Geffard et al., 1985); of course, this technique would be most useful in definitive identification of cholinergic neurons and pathways, but there was no follow-up with regard to its ...
Measurement of Corpus Callosum in Sudanese Population Using MRI
... Wernicke's area lies in the left temporal lobe (Fig 3). Damage to this area causes Wernicke's aphasia. The individual may speak in long sentences that have no meaning, add unnecessary words, and even create new words. They can make speech sounds, however they have difficulty understanding speech an ...
... Wernicke's area lies in the left temporal lobe (Fig 3). Damage to this area causes Wernicke's aphasia. The individual may speak in long sentences that have no meaning, add unnecessary words, and even create new words. They can make speech sounds, however they have difficulty understanding speech an ...
basic mechanisms of sleep
... The model of reciprocal interaction (5) provided a theoretic framework for experimental interventions at the cellular and molecular level that has vindicated the notion that waking and REM sleep are at opposite ends of an aminergically dominant to cholinergically dominant neuromodulatory continuum, ...
... The model of reciprocal interaction (5) provided a theoretic framework for experimental interventions at the cellular and molecular level that has vindicated the notion that waking and REM sleep are at opposite ends of an aminergically dominant to cholinergically dominant neuromodulatory continuum, ...
RITE Answers 2007
... The symptoms experienced by the patient in question would localize to the frontal lobe (behavioral and personality changes) as well as the temporal lobe (semantic memory). This would be a common presentation of frontotemporal dementia. The posterior aspect of the superior temporal gyrus receives inf ...
... The symptoms experienced by the patient in question would localize to the frontal lobe (behavioral and personality changes) as well as the temporal lobe (semantic memory). This would be a common presentation of frontotemporal dementia. The posterior aspect of the superior temporal gyrus receives inf ...
Loss of TDP-43 causes age-dependent progressive motor neuron
... Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects upper and lower motor neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord. Although previous studies using animal models of ALS have focused mainly on the toxicity of mutant SOD1, one of the causative genes of f ...
... Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects upper and lower motor neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord. Although previous studies using animal models of ALS have focused mainly on the toxicity of mutant SOD1, one of the causative genes of f ...
Local network regulation of orexin neurons in the lateral hypothalamus
... that orexin (hypocretin) neurons play a pivotal role in sleep/wake regulation, energy balance, and consummatory behaviors has sparked immense interest in understanding the regulatory mechanisms of these neurons. The local network consisting of neurons and astrocytes within the lateral hypothalamus a ...
... that orexin (hypocretin) neurons play a pivotal role in sleep/wake regulation, energy balance, and consummatory behaviors has sparked immense interest in understanding the regulatory mechanisms of these neurons. The local network consisting of neurons and astrocytes within the lateral hypothalamus a ...
Simulating Populations of Neurons - Leeds VLE
... Understanding the brain is a recent fascination in modern computing. We have come to realise that the brain is the most advanced computational tool that we know of, to be able to replicate neuronal processes could vastly improve current computational techniques. However, the more we understand the m ...
... Understanding the brain is a recent fascination in modern computing. We have come to realise that the brain is the most advanced computational tool that we know of, to be able to replicate neuronal processes could vastly improve current computational techniques. However, the more we understand the m ...
- Columbia University Medical Center
... during the development of the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS)—a diversity essential to the formation of selective neuronal circuits. Soon after their generation, neurons of a particular class segregate from those of other classes—a process that is linked to their later patterns of connectivi ...
... during the development of the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS)—a diversity essential to the formation of selective neuronal circuits. Soon after their generation, neurons of a particular class segregate from those of other classes—a process that is linked to their later patterns of connectivi ...
... mediated via activation of the Ras/Raf/MAPK and the PI3K/PDK1/PKB signaling pathways and are associated with a selective increase in protein translation. Protein kinase B (PKB/Akt) is a serine/threonine protein kinase which is claimed to be the critical transducer for several extracellular signals p ...
Different levels of Ih determine distinct temporal integration in
... three (5%) as fast-spiking neurons. A burst was defined by a high frequency of the first two action potentials (>200 Hz) that rode on a depolarizing potential followed by a long (tens of milliseconds) afterhyperpolarizing ...
... three (5%) as fast-spiking neurons. A burst was defined by a high frequency of the first two action potentials (>200 Hz) that rode on a depolarizing potential followed by a long (tens of milliseconds) afterhyperpolarizing ...
Developmental structure in brain evolution
... of multiple regressions on allometric data for 131 mammalian species, however, suggests that for 9 of 11 brain structures taxonomic and body size factors are less important than covariance of these major structures with each other. Which structure grows biggest is largely predicted by a conserved or ...
... of multiple regressions on allometric data for 131 mammalian species, however, suggests that for 9 of 11 brain structures taxonomic and body size factors are less important than covariance of these major structures with each other. Which structure grows biggest is largely predicted by a conserved or ...
the inferior colliculus of the rat: quantitative
... 0 and 255 correspond to white and black colors, respectively. The camera was connected to a Macintosh computer via a video digitizing card (Scion Corporation). Images were digitized and analyzed using Scion NIH Image software. In an attempt to preserve identical illumination conditions for different ...
... 0 and 255 correspond to white and black colors, respectively. The camera was connected to a Macintosh computer via a video digitizing card (Scion Corporation). Images were digitized and analyzed using Scion NIH Image software. In an attempt to preserve identical illumination conditions for different ...
For Peer Review - diss.fu
... modulation of ascending monoamine systems in response to afferents from limbic regions and basal ganglia. The LHb is implicated in various biological functions, such as reward, sleepwake cycle, feeding, pain processing and memory formation. The modulatory role of the LHb is partly assumed by putativ ...
... modulation of ascending monoamine systems in response to afferents from limbic regions and basal ganglia. The LHb is implicated in various biological functions, such as reward, sleepwake cycle, feeding, pain processing and memory formation. The modulatory role of the LHb is partly assumed by putativ ...
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... by specific signals as the main mechanism by which neuronal connections are first established between brain areas (Huber et al., 2003; Mueller, 1999), while activitydependent plasticity has been proposed as a mechanism for the final refinement and maturation of connections (Katz and Shatz, 1996). A ...
... by specific signals as the main mechanism by which neuronal connections are first established between brain areas (Huber et al., 2003; Mueller, 1999), while activitydependent plasticity has been proposed as a mechanism for the final refinement and maturation of connections (Katz and Shatz, 1996). A ...
Biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease
The biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease (AD), one of the most common causes of adult dementia, is as yet not well understood. AD has been identified as a protein misfolding disease due to the accumulation of abnormally folded amyloid beta protein in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Amyloid beta, also written Aβ, is a short peptide that is an abnormal proteolytic byproduct of the transmembrane protein amyloid precursor protein (APP), whose function is unclear but thought to be involved in neuronal development. The presenilins are components of proteolytic complex involved in APP processing and degradation.Amyloid beta monomers are soluble and contain short regions of beta sheet and polyproline II helix secondary structures in solution, though they are largely alpha helical in membranes; however, at sufficiently high concentration, they undergo a dramatic conformational change to form a beta sheet-rich tertiary structure that aggregates to form amyloid fibrils. These fibrils deposit outside neurons in dense formations known as senile plaques or neuritic plaques, in less dense aggregates as diffuse plaques, and sometimes in the walls of small blood vessels in the brain in a process called amyloid angiopathy or congophilic angiopathy.AD is also considered a tauopathy due to abnormal aggregation of the tau protein, a microtubule-associated protein expressed in neurons that normally acts to stabilize microtubules in the cell cytoskeleton. Like most microtubule-associated proteins, tau is normally regulated by phosphorylation; however, in AD patients, hyperphosphorylated tau accumulates as paired helical filaments that in turn aggregate into masses inside nerve cell bodies known as neurofibrillary tangles and as dystrophic neurites associated with amyloid plaques. Although little is known about the process of filament assembly, it has recently been shown that a depletion of a prolyl isomerase protein in the parvulin family accelerates the accumulation of abnormal tau.Neuroinflammation is also involved in the complex cascade leading to AD pathology and symptoms. Considerable pathological and clinical evidence documents immunological changes associated with AD, including increased pro-inflammatory cytokine concentrations in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid. Whether these changes may be a cause or consequence of AD remains to be fully understood, but inflammation within the brain, including increased reactivity of the resident microglia towards amyloid deposits, has been implicated in the pathogenesis and progression of AD.