Therapeutic effect of vasoactive intestinal peptide on form-deprived amblyopic kittens
BMC Ophthalmology, 2019 Background Exploring the role of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) in the lateral geniculate body (LGBd) in visual development and studying the therapeutic effect of VIP on amblyopic kittens.
Bo Li +6 more
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Phospholipase C-beta4 is essential for the progression of the normal sleep sequence and ultradian body temperature rhythms in mice. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 BACKGROUND: THE SLEEP SEQUENCE: i) non-REM sleep, ii) REM sleep, and iii) wakefulness, is stable and widely preserved in mammals, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown.
Masayuki Ikeda +7 more
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Visual deprivation modifies oscillatory activity in visual and auditory centers
Animal Cells and Systems, 2018 Loss of vision may enhance the capabilities of auditory perception, but the mechanisms mediating these changes remain elusive. Here, visual deprivation in rats resulted in altered oscillatory activities, which appeared to be the result of a common ...
Ping Pan +4 more
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DEPRIVATION AND STRABISMIC AMBLYOPIA: ABNORMALITIES IN GENICULOCORTICAL VISUAL PATHWAYS
Alʹmanah Kliničeskoj Mediciny, 2016 Background: There are inconsistent data on the changes of functional performance in subcortical structures of visual system caused by early binocular vision impairment.
S. V. Alekseenko, P. Yu. Shkorbatova
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Fast frequency modulation is encoded according to the listener expectations in the human subcortical auditory pathway [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Expectations aid and bias our perception. In speech, expected words are easier to recognise than unexpected words, particularly in noisy environments, and incorrect expectations can make us misunderstand our conversational partner. Expectations are combined with the output from the sensory pathways to form representations of speech in the cerebral ...
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Dorsal lateral geniculate substructure in the Long-Evans rat: A cholera toxin B-subunit study [PDF]
Front. Neuroanat. 6:40 (2012), 2012 This study describes the substructure of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus of the pigmented rat (Rattus norvegicus) based on the eye-of-origin of its retinal ganglion cell inputs. We made monocular intra-ocular injections of the B-subunit of cholera toxin (CTB), a sensitive anterograde tracer, in three adult male Long-Evans rats. In
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Noninvasive spatiotemporal imaging of neural transmission in the subcortical visual pathway
Scientific Reports, 2017 Spatiotemporal signal transmission in the human subcortical visual pathway has not been directly demonstrated to date. To delineate this signal transmission noninvasively, we investigated the early latency components between 45 ms (P45m) and 75 ms (N75m)
Fumiaki Yoshida +5 more
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Inhibitory Projections in the Mouse Auditory Tectothalamic System
Brain Sciences, 2018 The medial geniculate body (MGB) is the target of excitatory and inhibitory inputs from several neural sources. Among these, the inferior colliculus (IC) is an important nucleus in the midbrain that acts as a nexus for auditory projections, ascending and
Blaise A. Clarke, Charles C. Lee
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Concurrent generative models inform prediction error in the human auditory pathway [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Predictive coding is the leading algorithmic framework to understand how expectations shape our experience of reality. Its main tenet is that sensory neurons encode prediction error: the residuals between a generative model of the sensory world and the actual sensory input.
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Thalamic, cortical, and amygdala involvement in the processing of a natural sound cue of danger.
PLoS Biology, 2020 Animals use auditory cues generated by defensive responses of others to detect impending danger. Here we identify a neural circuit in rats involved in the detection of one such auditory cue, the cessation of movement-evoked sound resulting from freezing.
Ana G Pereira +2 more
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