Engineering new synaptic connections in the C. elegans connectome
... mapping are not sufficient; in addition, an engineering approach, similar to that underlying synthetic biology, whereby individual biological components are artificially reassembled or controlled to determine the effect on system output,8-11 provides a critical test for functional importance. Indeed ...
... mapping are not sufficient; in addition, an engineering approach, similar to that underlying synthetic biology, whereby individual biological components are artificially reassembled or controlled to determine the effect on system output,8-11 provides a critical test for functional importance. Indeed ...
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... Neocortical pyramidal neurons have a spike initiation zone in the apical dendrite [10,11,12,14,19]. The dendritic spike generated in this location is composed of an initial fast component that has been shown to be mediated by voltage-sensitive Na+ channels followed by a slower Ca2+-dependent compone ...
... Neocortical pyramidal neurons have a spike initiation zone in the apical dendrite [10,11,12,14,19]. The dendritic spike generated in this location is composed of an initial fast component that has been shown to be mediated by voltage-sensitive Na+ channels followed by a slower Ca2+-dependent compone ...
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... Caffeine, the stimulant in coffee, has been called “the most widely used psychoactive substance on Earth .” Synder, Daly and Bruns have recently proposed that caffeine affects behavior by countering the activity in (5) the human brain of a naturally occurring chemical called adenosine. Adenosine nor ...
... Caffeine, the stimulant in coffee, has been called “the most widely used psychoactive substance on Earth .” Synder, Daly and Bruns have recently proposed that caffeine affects behavior by countering the activity in (5) the human brain of a naturally occurring chemical called adenosine. Adenosine nor ...
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... they often choose to delay (or totally avoid) information about potential bad outcomes such as pain5. The surprising corollary is that people prefer to delay good outcomes such as a meal in a fancy restaurant, but would like aversive events to happen sooner rather than later6–8, which stands in dire ...
... they often choose to delay (or totally avoid) information about potential bad outcomes such as pain5. The surprising corollary is that people prefer to delay good outcomes such as a meal in a fancy restaurant, but would like aversive events to happen sooner rather than later6–8, which stands in dire ...
The Ten-Percent Myth
... Variants of the Ten-Percent Myth The myth is not simply a static, misunderstood factoid. It has several forms, and this adaptability gives it a shelf life longer than lacquered Spam. In the basic form, the myth claims that years ago a scientist discovered that we indeed did use only ten percent of o ...
... Variants of the Ten-Percent Myth The myth is not simply a static, misunderstood factoid. It has several forms, and this adaptability gives it a shelf life longer than lacquered Spam. In the basic form, the myth claims that years ago a scientist discovered that we indeed did use only ten percent of o ...
Thinking About Thinking
... (I would include brain-generated thought that acts like “stimuli”). Rather than brain being a passive receptacle for receipt of information in the world, brain dynamics support purposive action in which the brain directs its sense organs as needed to detect, abstract, interpret, and learn from senso ...
... (I would include brain-generated thought that acts like “stimuli”). Rather than brain being a passive receptacle for receipt of information in the world, brain dynamics support purposive action in which the brain directs its sense organs as needed to detect, abstract, interpret, and learn from senso ...
The Brain (Handout)
... matter (densely packed neurons for information processing). Each infold on the surface is known as a sulcus, and each bulge is know as a gyrus. While the white tissue inside are axons -tentacles which reach out to other cells (to relay information). The cortex can be broken down into many function ...
... matter (densely packed neurons for information processing). Each infold on the surface is known as a sulcus, and each bulge is know as a gyrus. While the white tissue inside are axons -tentacles which reach out to other cells (to relay information). The cortex can be broken down into many function ...
EN Sokolov`s Neural Model of Stimuli as Neuro
... generates commands from the center to the periphery of the body and is responsible for their execution. The modulating system comprises nerve cells associated with the processing of information that circulates between the neural networks that make up the afferent and effector subsystems of the conc ...
... generates commands from the center to the periphery of the body and is responsible for their execution. The modulating system comprises nerve cells associated with the processing of information that circulates between the neural networks that make up the afferent and effector subsystems of the conc ...
Thinking in circuits: toward neurobiological explanation in cognitive
... quent to uncorrelated activation and mapping of temporal patterns by spike-time-dependent plasticity are also incorporated in recent proposals. Typically, cell assemblies are considered to be the result of learning in a structured network, whereby the structural-neuroanatomical information manifest ...
... quent to uncorrelated activation and mapping of temporal patterns by spike-time-dependent plasticity are also incorporated in recent proposals. Typically, cell assemblies are considered to be the result of learning in a structured network, whereby the structural-neuroanatomical information manifest ...
Multiplication and stimulus invariance in a looming
... physical implementation of these so-called ‘‘elementary movement detectors’’ (EMDs) that are thought to multiply adjacent retinal inputs still remains unsolved to this day, in spite of more than 40 years of work [8]. Other examples of neural computations that are thought to involve multiplicative in ...
... physical implementation of these so-called ‘‘elementary movement detectors’’ (EMDs) that are thought to multiply adjacent retinal inputs still remains unsolved to this day, in spite of more than 40 years of work [8]. Other examples of neural computations that are thought to involve multiplicative in ...
Metal Ions in Alzheimer`s Disease Brain
... processing of APP later in life, and potentially influences the course of amyloidogenesis and oxidative damage [17]. In addition, APP levels have been shown to be translationally increased by cytosolic free iron levels and decrease upon addition of an iron chelator in neuroblastoma cells [18]. Iron ...
... processing of APP later in life, and potentially influences the course of amyloidogenesis and oxidative damage [17]. In addition, APP levels have been shown to be translationally increased by cytosolic free iron levels and decrease upon addition of an iron chelator in neuroblastoma cells [18]. Iron ...
35-2 The Nervous System
... The inside of the neuron has a net negative charge. The cell membrane is electrically charged because there is a difference in electrical charge between its outer and inner surfaces. Slide 35 of 38 Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall ...
... The inside of the neuron has a net negative charge. The cell membrane is electrically charged because there is a difference in electrical charge between its outer and inner surfaces. Slide 35 of 38 Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall ...
Dissecting appetite
... sense a fasted state and stimulate appetite, and POMC neurons that inhibit appetite. Together, these neurons monitor the nutritional state of the body and whether it has a surplus or deficit of calories by sensing chemicals in the blood and signals from upstream neurons. But Lowell isn’t alone in be ...
... sense a fasted state and stimulate appetite, and POMC neurons that inhibit appetite. Together, these neurons monitor the nutritional state of the body and whether it has a surplus or deficit of calories by sensing chemicals in the blood and signals from upstream neurons. But Lowell isn’t alone in be ...
trans - RUF International
... some time. When the loop has been firing for some time, the total situation may have changed so that the loop cannot be maintained. Neurons can become “tired” so that the loop amplification gradually drops below 1 which means that the loop cannot continue. Restoration of transmitter substances requi ...
... some time. When the loop has been firing for some time, the total situation may have changed so that the loop cannot be maintained. Neurons can become “tired” so that the loop amplification gradually drops below 1 which means that the loop cannot continue. Restoration of transmitter substances requi ...
EFFECTS OF INTERLEUKM 1p ON JSOLATED RAT
... CNS, where it can interact wiai circulating EPs. It is a srnall. semisphencal protnision situated at the rostro-dorsal quadrant of the third œrebral ventricle, attached to the hippocampal commissure (Dellman. 1985). ...
... CNS, where it can interact wiai circulating EPs. It is a srnall. semisphencal protnision situated at the rostro-dorsal quadrant of the third œrebral ventricle, attached to the hippocampal commissure (Dellman. 1985). ...
trans - RUF International
... some time. When the loop has been firing for some time, the total situation may have changed so that the loop cannot be maintained. Neurons can become “tired” so that the loop amplification gradually drops below 1 which means that the loop cannot continue. Restoration of transmitter substances requi ...
... some time. When the loop has been firing for some time, the total situation may have changed so that the loop cannot be maintained. Neurons can become “tired” so that the loop amplification gradually drops below 1 which means that the loop cannot continue. Restoration of transmitter substances requi ...
Study Guide
... 2. Know locations of the structures of neurons; refer back to Anatomy of Neuron worksheet 3. Know all the neuroglia by name, type of nervous system found in, and their functions; Table 9.1, page 258 will help. 4. Know diseases associated with myelin sheath, refer back to Nervous Tissue Lab. IV. Acti ...
... 2. Know locations of the structures of neurons; refer back to Anatomy of Neuron worksheet 3. Know all the neuroglia by name, type of nervous system found in, and their functions; Table 9.1, page 258 will help. 4. Know diseases associated with myelin sheath, refer back to Nervous Tissue Lab. IV. Acti ...
A Cholinergic Mechanism for Reward Timing within Primary Visual Cortex Please share
... all trials of dominant versus non-dominant cue presentation. As exit behavior is consistent across trials containing presentations of either cue, this approach allows us to use the nondominant response as a comparison for any modulation resulting from the animal's immediate behavior. Of 842 well-iso ...
... all trials of dominant versus non-dominant cue presentation. As exit behavior is consistent across trials containing presentations of either cue, this approach allows us to use the nondominant response as a comparison for any modulation resulting from the animal's immediate behavior. Of 842 well-iso ...
mirror neurons: our current understanding
... mirror neuron mechanism have mostly used indirect methods which indicate neural activation. Some of the first evidence was derived from Hari et al.’s (1998) study which recorded neuromagnetic oscillatory activity in participants’ precentral cortex. Hari et al. (1998) measured brain activity using ma ...
... mirror neuron mechanism have mostly used indirect methods which indicate neural activation. Some of the first evidence was derived from Hari et al.’s (1998) study which recorded neuromagnetic oscillatory activity in participants’ precentral cortex. Hari et al. (1998) measured brain activity using ma ...
Self-Sustained Activity in a Small-World Network of Excitable Neurons
... 2k neighbors (wi;ij 1 for j 1; . . . ; k) and model longrange connections via a population of intermediate excitatory neurons that both receive input from and project to multiple adjacent neurons. Under these conditions, spontaneous activity is highly unlikely to initiate traveling pulses. Howe ...
... 2k neighbors (wi;ij 1 for j 1; . . . ; k) and model longrange connections via a population of intermediate excitatory neurons that both receive input from and project to multiple adjacent neurons. Under these conditions, spontaneous activity is highly unlikely to initiate traveling pulses. Howe ...
Properties of Single Neurons Responsive to Light Mechanical
... electrode placement. Electrical stimuli applied to the cortex were 200 psec monophasic square waves, O-10 mV in amplitude, delivered at a rate of 0.5-1.0 Hz. Criteria for antidromic activation were (1) an all-or-none response consisting of a single spike with a constant short latency of 3.0 msec or ...
... electrode placement. Electrical stimuli applied to the cortex were 200 psec monophasic square waves, O-10 mV in amplitude, delivered at a rate of 0.5-1.0 Hz. Criteria for antidromic activation were (1) an all-or-none response consisting of a single spike with a constant short latency of 3.0 msec or ...
central effects of centripetal impulses in axons of spinal ventral roots
... 1. Initiation of spike activity in the ventral horn by antidromic motor volleys. A volley of centripetal impulses which enters the spinal cord over the alpha fibers of a ventral root initiates prolonged spike activity in the ventral horn. The illustrative record of Fig. 1 was obtained during an expe ...
... 1. Initiation of spike activity in the ventral horn by antidromic motor volleys. A volley of centripetal impulses which enters the spinal cord over the alpha fibers of a ventral root initiates prolonged spike activity in the ventral horn. The illustrative record of Fig. 1 was obtained during an expe ...
The Existence of a Layer IV in the Rat Motor Cortex
... pole in coronal sections (one brain) in a consecutive series of 50-µm-thick sections using an Oxford Vibratome®. Three to four sections from each series were used for the counting. In brief, the staining and the counting methods were as follows (see Skoglund et al., 1997): the sections were stained ...
... pole in coronal sections (one brain) in a consecutive series of 50-µm-thick sections using an Oxford Vibratome®. Three to four sections from each series were used for the counting. In brief, the staining and the counting methods were as follows (see Skoglund et al., 1997): the sections were stained ...
A proposed common neural mechanism for categorization and
... generic. Other groups have also reported categorical signals in LIP that are independent of planned movements or visuospatial factors, such as cognitive set signals related to the particular rule required to carry out a task26,27. A generic categorical representation is reminiscent of the reportinde ...
... generic. Other groups have also reported categorical signals in LIP that are independent of planned movements or visuospatial factors, such as cognitive set signals related to the particular rule required to carry out a task26,27. A generic categorical representation is reminiscent of the reportinde ...
Parietal cortex neurons of the monkey related to the visual guidance
... objects connected with microswitches that required different patterns of hand movement (object-manipulation task). They were also trained to fixate their gaze on the object without manipulating it, in order to assess visual responses of cells to the sight of the object (object-fixation task). In bot ...
... objects connected with microswitches that required different patterns of hand movement (object-manipulation task). They were also trained to fixate their gaze on the object without manipulating it, in order to assess visual responses of cells to the sight of the object (object-fixation task). In bot ...