Long-term potentiation in the anterior cingulate cortex and chronic
... try to avoid pain when it is possible. The study of pain is mainly driven by humans’ desire to avoid or control pain. The discovery of analgesic drugs such as opioids has greatly helped doctors to reduce the suffering of patients during and after surgery. However, while these drugs are effective for ...
... try to avoid pain when it is possible. The study of pain is mainly driven by humans’ desire to avoid or control pain. The discovery of analgesic drugs such as opioids has greatly helped doctors to reduce the suffering of patients during and after surgery. However, while these drugs are effective for ...
How Do Neurons Convey Information?
... between the tip of the recording electrode and the reference causes a current to flow through the voltmeter, deflecting a needle that indicates the voltage. Richard Caton, a Scottish physician who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was the first person to attempt to measure ...
... between the tip of the recording electrode and the reference causes a current to flow through the voltmeter, deflecting a needle that indicates the voltage. Richard Caton, a Scottish physician who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was the first person to attempt to measure ...
Diversity and wiring variability of visual local neurons in the
... making the medulla the first stage of color-vision processing and simultaneously the second stage of motiondetection processing through L1–L5 neurons. Converging evidence from studies conducted in several insect species, including Drosophila, indicates that DRA ommatidia are sensitive to the oscilla ...
... making the medulla the first stage of color-vision processing and simultaneously the second stage of motiondetection processing through L1–L5 neurons. Converging evidence from studies conducted in several insect species, including Drosophila, indicates that DRA ommatidia are sensitive to the oscilla ...
Control of Appetite and Food Preference by NMDA Receptor and Its
... Abstract: Obesity causes a significant negative impact on health of human beings world-wide. The main reason for weight gain, which eventually leads to obesity, is excessive ingestion of energy above the body’s homeostatic needs. Therefore, the elucidation of detailed mechanisms for appetite control ...
... Abstract: Obesity causes a significant negative impact on health of human beings world-wide. The main reason for weight gain, which eventually leads to obesity, is excessive ingestion of energy above the body’s homeostatic needs. Therefore, the elucidation of detailed mechanisms for appetite control ...
neural circuitry approaches to understanding the pathophysiology
... within the gray matter, and a principal axonal projection, which enters the white matter and travels to another brain region. These axons utilize excitatory amino acids, such as glutamate, as a neurotransmitter and form synapses that have the characteristic morphology associated with excitatory neur ...
... within the gray matter, and a principal axonal projection, which enters the white matter and travels to another brain region. These axons utilize excitatory amino acids, such as glutamate, as a neurotransmitter and form synapses that have the characteristic morphology associated with excitatory neur ...
Neural Control of Interappendage Phase During Locomotion
... It is desirable to determine the minimum piece of nervous tissue which is capable of producing the normal rhythmic output to a limb. The technique which has been utilized in the crayfish swimmeret system is the isolation of the presumptive control center from the remainder of the CNS. The abdominal ...
... It is desirable to determine the minimum piece of nervous tissue which is capable of producing the normal rhythmic output to a limb. The technique which has been utilized in the crayfish swimmeret system is the isolation of the presumptive control center from the remainder of the CNS. The abdominal ...
Pyramidal neurons: dendritic structure and synaptic integration
... neurons, their functional significance is not clearly understood. They might increase the dendritic surface area in order to optimize the packing of a large number of synapses onto a given length of dendrite186–188. Alternatively, they might serve as biochemical compartments that restrict the diffus ...
... neurons, their functional significance is not clearly understood. They might increase the dendritic surface area in order to optimize the packing of a large number of synapses onto a given length of dendrite186–188. Alternatively, they might serve as biochemical compartments that restrict the diffus ...
Nervous_System_Brain
... Copyright © 2006 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings ...
... Copyright © 2006 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings ...
(Nurr1, Nur77 and Nor-1) by Typical and Atypical Antipsychotics in
... (Wadenberg et al., 2001). Receptor interaction analysis revealed that atypical antipsychotics tend to have a lower affinity for D2 receptors and higher affinity for serotonin 5-HT2A receptors, compared to typical drugs. In fact, a high 5-HT2A/D2 affinity ratio can be used to predict an atypical prof ...
... (Wadenberg et al., 2001). Receptor interaction analysis revealed that atypical antipsychotics tend to have a lower affinity for D2 receptors and higher affinity for serotonin 5-HT2A receptors, compared to typical drugs. In fact, a high 5-HT2A/D2 affinity ratio can be used to predict an atypical prof ...
Local functions for FMRP in axon growth cone motility and activity
... FMRP has been shown to associate with mRNAs that encode proteins regulating the cytoskeleton and synapses. One such FMRP target is the microtubule associated protein (MAP1b) mRNA, which is inappropriately translated in both Drosophila dFmr1 (dfxr) null (Zhang et al., 2001a,b; Pan et al., 2004) and m ...
... FMRP has been shown to associate with mRNAs that encode proteins regulating the cytoskeleton and synapses. One such FMRP target is the microtubule associated protein (MAP1b) mRNA, which is inappropriately translated in both Drosophila dFmr1 (dfxr) null (Zhang et al., 2001a,b; Pan et al., 2004) and m ...
Synchronisation hubs in the visual cortex may arise from strong
... Euler or an improved Euler method, with the threshold crossing computed more precisely using linear interpolation between the two consecutive time points straddling the threshold. Conductance-based models yielded similar results (not shown); however, as the integrate-and-fire model is substantially l ...
... Euler or an improved Euler method, with the threshold crossing computed more precisely using linear interpolation between the two consecutive time points straddling the threshold. Conductance-based models yielded similar results (not shown); however, as the integrate-and-fire model is substantially l ...
Multiple signalling modalities mediated by dendritic exocytosis of
... communication is largely determined by the spatially constrained structure of the synapse. Conversely, in paracrine transmission, specificity is solely determined by the specificity of the signal – receptor interaction. Examples of signalling mechanisms acting at more distant sites include release o ...
... communication is largely determined by the spatially constrained structure of the synapse. Conversely, in paracrine transmission, specificity is solely determined by the specificity of the signal – receptor interaction. Examples of signalling mechanisms acting at more distant sites include release o ...
Review. Multiple signaling modalities mediated by dendritic
... communication is largely determined by the spatially constrained structure of the synapse. Conversely, in paracrine transmission, specificity is solely determined by the specificity of the signal – receptor interaction. Examples of signalling mechanisms acting at more distant sites include release o ...
... communication is largely determined by the spatially constrained structure of the synapse. Conversely, in paracrine transmission, specificity is solely determined by the specificity of the signal – receptor interaction. Examples of signalling mechanisms acting at more distant sites include release o ...
What Keeps Us Awake: the Neuropharmacology of Stimulants and
... the other extends to the hypothalamus and basal forebrain (Figure 1). The primary origin of the thalamic projection from the brainstem has been identified as the cholinergic pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei. Three structures can be considered as key relays between the midbrain reti ...
... the other extends to the hypothalamus and basal forebrain (Figure 1). The primary origin of the thalamic projection from the brainstem has been identified as the cholinergic pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei. Three structures can be considered as key relays between the midbrain reti ...
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... All five subunits in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor contribute to the ion channel ...
... All five subunits in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor contribute to the ion channel ...
Motor Cortical Networks for Skilled Movements Have Reaching
... voluntary movement. Neural network changes during skill learning are thought to be involved in improved fluency and accuracy of motor tasks. Unforced errors during skilled tasks provide an avenue to study network connections related to motor learning. In order to investigate network activity in MI, ...
... voluntary movement. Neural network changes during skill learning are thought to be involved in improved fluency and accuracy of motor tasks. Unforced errors during skilled tasks provide an avenue to study network connections related to motor learning. In order to investigate network activity in MI, ...
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... Neurotransmitters are interchangeable in that each of them can fit into any receptor site. d) Neurotransmitters that are not absorbed by a receiving cell cannot be reused and must be eliminated from the body. e) Neurotransmitters can have inhibitory effects, excitatory effects, or both. ANS: e TOP: ...
... Neurotransmitters are interchangeable in that each of them can fit into any receptor site. d) Neurotransmitters that are not absorbed by a receiving cell cannot be reused and must be eliminated from the body. e) Neurotransmitters can have inhibitory effects, excitatory effects, or both. ANS: e TOP: ...
Reinforcement Learning Using a Continuous Time Actor
... Animals repeat rewarded behaviors, but the physiological basis of reward-based learning has only been partially elucidated. On one hand, experimental evidence shows that the neuromodulator dopamine carries information about rewards and affects synaptic plasticity. On the other hand, the theory of re ...
... Animals repeat rewarded behaviors, but the physiological basis of reward-based learning has only been partially elucidated. On one hand, experimental evidence shows that the neuromodulator dopamine carries information about rewards and affects synaptic plasticity. On the other hand, the theory of re ...
Information Processing in the Rostral Solitary Nucleus: Modulation
... responses, however, the formula for entropy does not handle negative numbers, i.e. inhibitory responses. On the other hand, the noise to signal ratio rarely confronts this problem because the response to the 2nd best stimulus is virtually never inhibitory, but this measure ignores the 3rd and 4th-be ...
... responses, however, the formula for entropy does not handle negative numbers, i.e. inhibitory responses. On the other hand, the noise to signal ratio rarely confronts this problem because the response to the 2nd best stimulus is virtually never inhibitory, but this measure ignores the 3rd and 4th-be ...
Hybrid Scheme for Modeling Local Field Potentials from Point
... 2014), and realistic firing rates across laminar cortical populations (Potjans and Diesmann 2014). Point-neuron networks are amenable to mathematical analysis (see, e.g., Brunel 2000; Deco et al. 2008; Tetzlaff et al. 2012; Helias et al. 2013; de Kamps 2013; Schuecker et al. 2015; Bos et al. 2016) an ...
... 2014), and realistic firing rates across laminar cortical populations (Potjans and Diesmann 2014). Point-neuron networks are amenable to mathematical analysis (see, e.g., Brunel 2000; Deco et al. 2008; Tetzlaff et al. 2012; Helias et al. 2013; de Kamps 2013; Schuecker et al. 2015; Bos et al. 2016) an ...
J Comp Physiol (1982) 149: 179 193
... lamina monopolar cell, which were recorded under the same conditions, but in a different animal. In all records, the transient increase of activity decays with approximately the same time course. That is to say that an instantaneous perturbation does not seem to elicit longlasting reverberations, wh ...
... lamina monopolar cell, which were recorded under the same conditions, but in a different animal. In all records, the transient increase of activity decays with approximately the same time course. That is to say that an instantaneous perturbation does not seem to elicit longlasting reverberations, wh ...
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... to fire or not to fire. The lock and key analogy is often used to describe the relationship between each neurotransmitter and its specialized receptors. • After an action potential occurs, neurotransmitters are reabsorbed into the synaptic vesicles in which they are stored. This process is known as ...
... to fire or not to fire. The lock and key analogy is often used to describe the relationship between each neurotransmitter and its specialized receptors. • After an action potential occurs, neurotransmitters are reabsorbed into the synaptic vesicles in which they are stored. This process is known as ...
Bioelectric Phenomena
... found that touching the muscle with a metallic object while the specimen lay on a metal plate provided the condition that resulted in the contractions. Having heard of Franklin’s experimental proof that a flash of lightning was of the same nature as the electricity generated by electric machines, Ga ...
... found that touching the muscle with a metallic object while the specimen lay on a metal plate provided the condition that resulted in the contractions. Having heard of Franklin’s experimental proof that a flash of lightning was of the same nature as the electricity generated by electric machines, Ga ...
Mirror neurons in monkey area F5 do not adapt to the observation of
... the monkeys saw a movie (Fig. 1a) that started with the presentation of an object (a pepper). Then a hand entered the scene, reached out for the object, grasped it without moving it and finally withdrew without the object. The movie ended with the pepper left on the screen. After 640 ms the same movi ...
... the monkeys saw a movie (Fig. 1a) that started with the presentation of an object (a pepper). Then a hand entered the scene, reached out for the object, grasped it without moving it and finally withdrew without the object. The movie ended with the pepper left on the screen. After 640 ms the same movi ...
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... the mature cortex. Pia (or pia mater). Innermost layer of the meninges that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Preplate. Located between the pia and the ventricular zone, it contains the earliest born neurons and represents the beginning of corticogenesis prior to the emergence of the cortical pla ...
... the mature cortex. Pia (or pia mater). Innermost layer of the meninges that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Preplate. Located between the pia and the ventricular zone, it contains the earliest born neurons and represents the beginning of corticogenesis prior to the emergence of the cortical pla ...