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Requirements for a single cell mechanism of entorhinal “grid field” activity: role of dendritic oscillators and coupling
The responses of rat medial entorhinal cortical neurons form characteristic grid patterns as a function of the animal’s position. A recent model of grid fields proposes a mechanism based on intrins…
Received 12 June 2009 12:13 UTC; Posted 12 June 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
The role of ongoing dendritic oscillations in single-neuron dynamics
The dendritic tree contributes significantly to the elementary computations a neuron performs while converting its synaptic inputs into action potential output. Traditionally, these computations ha…
Received 11 June 2009 15:59 UTC; Posted 12 June 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Herbal Drugs in Mirror of Alzheimer’s Disease
Commercially available Ginkgo biloba leaf extracts may lack specificity as to the binding of copper and zinc ions in human cells. This might be the reason why Ginkgo extracts have no predictable an…
Received 11 June 2009 07:38 UTC; Posted 11 June 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Plant Biology
Stochastic Resonance Can Drive Adaptive Physiological Processes
Stochastic resonance (SR) is a concept from the physics and engineering communities that has applicability to both systems physiology and other living systems. In this paper, it will be argued that…
Received 01 June 2009 15:04 UTC; Posted 02 June 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Sensory Contact Model: Protocol, Control, Applications
Among the models that become more and more popular in behavioral neuroscience are biosocial models, which allow studying the consequences of chronic social conflicts and social stress in animals. T…
Received 30 May 2009 06:20 UTC; Posted 01 June 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Sensorimotor states affect choice in the magnitude judgment of ambiguous durations
The statistics of the environment seem to exert optimal influence on the organization of functions subserving decision making. In order to make decisions about ambiguous sensory information, predic…
Received 20 May 2009 12:47 UTC; Posted 20 May 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Experimental demonstration of associative memory with memristive neural networks
When someone mentions the name of a known person we immediately recall her face and possibly many other traits. This is because we possess the so-called associative memory – the ability to correlat…
Received 18 May 2009 16:52 UTC; Posted 19 May 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience, Bioinformatics
TMS, phosphenes and visual mental imagery: A mini-review and a theoretical framework
We reviewed the existing research linking visual mental imagery and phosphenes induced by TMS. We examined and contrasted conditions (and parameters) under which intensity and amplitude of TMS appl…
Received 13 May 2009 14:57 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Coupling of capillary RBC flow failure with neuronal depolarization
RBC (oxygen-carrier) behaviour in the cerebrocortical microvasculature during K+-induced cortical spreading depression (CSD) was examined in urethane-anesthetized male Wistar rats (n=10). The mov…
Received 04 May 2009 21:23 UTC; Posted 05 May 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
When does right functional hemispheric lateralization arise? Evidence from preterm infants
In recent years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has allowed researchers to individuate an earlier morphological development of the right hemisphere compared to the left hemisphere before birth. A…
Received 29 April 2009 10:55 UTC; Posted 01 May 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
