Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 The tiny ensemble of neurons in the leech ganglion can discriminate the locations of touch stimuli on the skin as precisely as a human fingertip. The leech uses this ability to locally bend the body-wall away from the stimulus. It is assumed that a three-
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Fine-grained nociceptive maps in primary somatosensory cortex [PDF]
, 2012 Topographic maps of the receptive surface are a fundamental feature of neural organization in many sensory systems. While touch is finely mapped in the cerebral cortex, it remains controversial how precise any cortical nociceptive map may be.
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A Critical Period for the Rapid Modification of Synaptic Properties at the VPm Relay Synapse
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2017 In addition to cortical areas, the thalamus also displays plasticity during a critical period in early life. Since most sensory information is transmitted to the cortex via the thalamus, it will be of significant interest to understand the precise time ...
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Effects of methamphetamine on locomotor activity and thalamic gene expression in leptin-deficient obese mice [PDF]
, 2017 Leptin is an adipose-derived hormone that regulates energy balance. Leptin receptors are expressed in extrahypothalamic sites and several reports showed that leptin can influence feeding and locomotor behavior via direct actions on dopaminergic neurons ...
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Oxytocin is implicated in social memory deficits induced by early sensory deprivation in mice [PDF]
, 2016 Acknowledgements We thank Miss Jia-Yin and Miss Yu-Ling Sun for their help in breading the mice. Funding This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81200933 to N.-N. Song; 81200692 to L.
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Object-guided Spatial Attention in Touch: Holding the Same Object with Both Hands Delays Attentional Selection [PDF]
, 2009 Previous research has shown that attention to a specific location on a uniform visual object spreads throughout the entire object. Here we demonstrate that, similar to the visual system, spatial attention in touch can be object guided.
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Somatosensory tinnitus: current evidence and future perspectives [PDF]
, 2017 In some individuals, tinnitus can be modulated by specific maneuvers of the temporomandibular joint, head and neck, eyes, and limbs. Neuroplasticity seems to play a central role in this capacity for modulation, suggesting that abnormal interactions ...
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation disrupts the perception and embodiment of facial expressions [PDF]
, 2008 Copyright © 2008 Society for Neuroscience and the authors. The The Journal of Neuroscience uses a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.Theories of embodied cognition propose that
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From modular to centralized organization of synchronization in functional areas of the cat cerebral cortex [PDF]
, 2010 Recent studies have pointed out the importance of transient synchronization between widely distributed neural assemblies to understand conscious perception.
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Frontiers in Molecular NeuroscienceGenetic targeting of select populations of cells in the mouse nervous system is often hampered by a lack of selectivity, as candidate genes for such targeting are commonly expressed by multiple cell populations, also in the same region.
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