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Homocysteic acid as a pathogen for Alzheimer’s disease
It has been considered that Alzheimer’s disease may be induced by multi-pathogenic factors. However recent Nature Genetics has reported that sporadic Alzheimer’s disease is also genetically determ…
Received 09 September 2009 10:12 UTC; Posted 09 September 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Choice reveals that rats are majoritarily resilient to cocaine addiction
Assessing the relative reward value of cocaine and how it changes with repeated use represents a long-standing goal in addiction research. Surprisingly, recent experimental research in rats – the m…
Received 09 September 2009 08:32 UTC; Posted 09 September 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience, Pharmacology
The modulation of alpha-wave amplitude in human EEG by the intention to act with a motor response
The most conspicuous signal in the human EEG is the so-called alpha wave, oscillations in the frequency range of 8 to 12 Hz. Visual stimulation of the retina suppresses the amplitude of alpha waves…
Received 04 September 2009 08:49 UTC; Posted 04 September 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Quantum stochasticity and neuronal computations
The nervous system probably cannot display macroscopic quantum (i.e. classically impossible) behaviours such as quantum entanglement, superposition or tunnelling (Koch and Hepp, Nature 440:611, 200…
Received 31 August 2009 11:41 UTC; Posted 01 September 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Cosmetic Use of Botulinum Toxin-A Affects Processing of Emotional Language
Language can evoke powerful emotions and influence consequent actions in readers, but the mechanisms underlying interactions of language and emotion are largely unknown. Since Darwin, emotional exp…
Received 24 August 2009 17:41 UTC; Posted 25 August 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Role of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) in synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission in mammalian spinal cord.
Chronic unilateral hemisection (HX) of the adult rat spinal cord diminishes conduction through intact fibers in the ventrolateral funiculus (VLF) contralateral to HX. Intraspinal injections of Chon…
Received 24 August 2009 16:32 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Successive Induction in Larval Zebrafish
Activating one reflex often facilitates another, antagonistic one. Since Charles Sherrington first identified successive induction more than 100 years ago, it has been demonstrated in a wide range …
Received 20 August 2009 16:04 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Logarithmic laws of echoic memory and auditory change detection in humans
The cortical mechanisms underlying echoic memory and change detection were investigated using an auditory change-related component (N100c) of event-related brain potentials. N100c was elicited by p…
Received 19 August 2009 01:39 UTC; Posted 19 August 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Phase organization of circadian oscillators in extended gate and oscillator models
The suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) control daily oscillations in physiology and behavior. The gate-oscillator model captures function heterogeneity in SCN and has been successful in reproducing many …
Received 17 August 2009 23:55 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
The Baseline for Response Latency Distributions
Response latency – the time taken to initiate or complete an action or task – is one of the principal measures used to investigate the mechanisms subserving human and animal cognitive processes. Th…
Received 16 August 2009 16:27 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
