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Functional connectivity of the insula in the resting brainFranco Cauda
CCS fMRI, Koelliker Hospital, Turin, Italy
Neuroimage 55:8-23. 2011..These results are in agreement with connectivity studies in primates, and support the use of resting state functional analysis to investigate connectivity in the living human brain...
Functional grouping and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studiesHedy Kober
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Neuroimage 42:998-1031. 2008....
A dual-networks architecture of top-down controlNico U F Dosenbach
Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, 4525 Scott Ave, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 12:99-105. 2008..The control systems of the brain seem to embody the principles of complex systems, encouraging resilient performance...
Dynamic adjustments in prefrontal, hippocampal, and inferior temporal interactions with increasing visual working memory loadJesse Rissman
Henry H Wheeler, Jr Brain Imaging Center, Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:1618-29. 2008....
Dissociable neural systems resolve conflict from emotional versus nonemotional distractersTobias Egner
Functional MRI Research Center, Columbia University, Neurological Institute, Box 108, 710 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:1475-84. 2008..These data suggest that the neuroanatomical networks recruited to overcome conflict vary systematically with the nature of the conflict, but that they may share a common conflict-detection mechanism...
A resilient, low-frequency, small-world human brain functional network with highly connected association cortical hubsSophie Achard
Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 26:63-72. 2006..Because the major hubs of this network are critical for cognition, its slow dynamics could provide a physiological substrate for segregated and distributed information processing...
Psychophysiological and modulatory interactions in neuroimagingK J Friston
Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London, United Kingdom
Neuroimage 6:218-29. 1997..We focus on interactions among extrastriate, inferotemporal, and posterior parietal regions during visual processing, under different attentional and perceptual conditions...
Mapping anatomical connectivity patterns of human cerebral cortex using in vivo diffusion tensor imaging tractographyGaolang Gong
Department of Biomedical Engineering, 1098 Research Transition Facility, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Cereb Cortex 19:524-36. 2009..Our results are compatible with previous structural and functional brain networks studies and provide insight into the organizational principles of human brain anatomical networks that underlie functional states...
The small world of the cerebral cortexOlaf Sporns
Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA
Neuroinformatics 2:145-62. 2004..We discuss the significance of these universal organizational features of cortex in light of functional brain anatomy. Supplementary materials are at www.indiana.edu/~cortex/lab.htm...
Neurodegenerative diseases target large-scale human brain networksWilliam W Seeley
Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Neuron 62:42-52. 2009..Future studies may clarify how these complex systems are assembled during development and undermined by disease...
Probabilistic diffusion tractography with multiple fibre orientations: What can we gain?T E J Behrens
Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain FMRIB, Oxford, UK
Neuroimage 34:144-55. 2007..We show that multi-fibre tractography offers significant advantages in sensitivity when tracking non-dominant fibre populations, but does not dramatically change tractography results for the dominant pathways...
Ventral and dorsal pathways for languageDorothee Saur
Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Breisacher Strasse 64, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:18035-40. 2008....
Comparing dynamic causal modelsW D Penny
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
Neuroimage 22:1157-72. 2004..The combined use of Bayes factors and DCM thus allows one to evaluate competing scientific theories about the architecture of large-scale neural networks and the neuronal interactions that mediate perception and cognition...
Studying the human brain anatomical network via diffusion-weighted MRI and Graph TheoryYasser Iturria-Medina
Neuroimaging Department, Cuban Neuroscience Center, Avenue 25, Esq 158, 15202, PO Box 6412, Cubanacan, Playa, Havana, Cuba
Neuroimage 40:1064-76. 2008..These results are in agreement with previous anatomical studies in the cat and macaque cerebral cortex...
Autism and abnormal development of brain connectivityMatthew K Belmonte
Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2AH, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 24:9228-31. 2004
The global signal and observed anticorrelated resting state brain networksMichael D Fox
Departments of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Neurophysiol 101:3270-83. 2009....
Association fibre pathways of the brain: parallel observations from diffusion spectrum imaging and autoradiographyJeremy D Schmahmann
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02114, USA
Brain 130:630-53. 2007..By replicating the major features of these tracts identified by histological techniques in monkey, we show that DSI has the potential to cast new light on the organization of the human brain in the normal state and in clinical disorders...
Network structure of cerebral cortex shapes functional connectivity on multiple time scalesChristopher J Honey
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:10240-5. 2007....
Cortical hubs revealed by intrinsic functional connectivity: mapping, assessment of stability, and relation to Alzheimer's diseaseRandy L Buckner
Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Neurosci 29:1860-73. 2009....
Connectivity-Based Parcellation of Broca's AreaA Anwander
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Cereb Cortex 17:816-25. 2007..For the first time, there is a possibility to investigate the anatomical subdivision of Broca's area noninvasively in the individual living human subject...
Segmentation of subcomponents within the superior longitudinal fascicle in humans: a quantitative, in vivo, DT-MRI studyNikos Makris
Harvard Medical School Department of Neurology, Center for Morphometric Analysis, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, USA
Cereb Cortex 15:854-69. 2005..Since DT-MRI allows the precise definition of only the stem portion of each fiber pathway, the origin and termination of the subdivisions of SLF are extrapolated from the available data in experimental material from non-human primates...
Perisylvian language networks of the human brainMarco Catani
Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, DeCrespigny Park, London SE5 8AZ, United Kingdom
Ann Neurol 57:8-16. 2005..The anatomical findings are also relevant to the evolution of language, provide a framework for Lichtheim's symptom-based neurological model of aphasia, and constrain, anatomically, contemporary connectionist accounts of language...
A method for functional network connectivity among spatially independent resting-state components in schizophreniaMadiha J Jafri
Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Neuroimage 39:1666-81. 2008..Significant differences between patient and control connectivity in different networks were revealed possibly reflecting deficiencies in cortical processing in patients...
Non-invasive mapping of connections between human thalamus and cortex using diffusion imagingT E J Behrens
Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
Nat Neurosci 6:750-7. 2003..Our results provide the first quantitative demonstration of reliable inference of anatomical connectivity between human gray matter structures using diffusion data and the first connectivity-based segmentation of gray matter...
A quantitative map of the circuit of cat primary visual cortexTom Binzegger
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich, and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
J Neurosci 24:8441-53. 2004....
Phase lag index: assessment of functional connectivity from multi channel EEG and MEG with diminished bias from common sourcesCornelis J Stam
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hum Brain Mapp 28:1178-93. 2007....
The primate basal ganglia: parallel and integrative networksSuzanne N Haber
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Chem Neuroanat 26:317-30. 2003..Information is channeled from limbic, to cognitive, to motor circuits. Action decision-making processes are thus influenced by motivation and cognitive inputs, allowing the animal to respond appropriate to environmental cues...
Neuronal circuits of the neocortexRodney J Douglas
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University ETH Zurich, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
Annu Rev Neurosci 27:419-51. 2004....
DTI tractography of the human brain's language pathwaysMatthew F Glasser
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:2471-82. 2008..Smaller right hemisphere MTG terminations overlapped with right lateralized prosodic activations. We combine our findings with a recent model of brain language processing to explain 6 aphasia syndromes...
The subcellular organization of neocortical excitatory connectionsLeopoldo Petreanu
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, USA
Nature 457:1142-5. 2009..Our experiments reveal high specificity in the subcellular organization of excitatory circuits...
Reproducibility of quantitative tractography methods applied to cerebral white matterSetsu Wakana
F M Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Neuroimage 36:630-44. 2007..Hemispheric asymmetry was observed for the size of white matter tracts projecting to the temporal lobe. This protocol provides guidelines for reproducible DTI-based tract-specific quantification...
Virtual in vivo interactive dissection of white matter fasciculi in the human brainMarco Catani
Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
Neuroimage 17:77-94. 2002....
Neuronal diversity and temporal dynamics: the unity of hippocampal circuit operationsThomas Klausberger
MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3TH, UK
Science 321:53-7. 2008..The spatiotemporal specializations in cortical circuits reveal that cellular diversity and temporal dynamics coemerged during evolution, providing a basis for cognitive behavior...
Connectivity-based parcellation of human cingulate cortex and its relation to functional specializationMatthias Beckmann
Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 29:1175-90. 2009..Regional functional specialization was found to be related to regional differences in probabilistic anatomical connectivity...
Identification and classification of hubs in brain networksOlaf Sporns
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Program in Cognitive Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e1049. 2007....
Cortical midline structures and the selfGeorg Northoff
Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation, Division of Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 8:102-7. 2004..All of these subfunctions are related to distinct regions within the CMS. This relationship between self-referential processing and CMS might provide novel insight into the neural correlates underlying the constitution of the self...
Evidence for segregated and integrative connectivity patterns in the human Basal GangliaBogdan Draganski
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, UCL, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 28:7143-52. 2008..We believe that this method can be used to examine pathophysiological concepts in a number of basal ganglia-related disorders...
The precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex plays a pivotal role in the default mode network: Evidence from a partial correlation network analysisPeter Fransson
MR Research Center, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Neuroimage 42:1178-84. 2008..The suggested pivotal role of the precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex in the default mode network is discussed...
The evolution of the arcuate fasciculus revealed with comparative DTIJames K Rilling
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 207 Anthropology Building, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Nat Neurosci 11:426-8. 2008..This human specialization may be relevant to the evolution of language...
Natural frequencies of human corticothalamic circuitsMario Rosanova
Department of Clinical Sciences, Luigi Sacco, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
J Neurosci 29:7679-85. 2009..The natural frequency can be directly measured in virtually any area of the cerebral cortex and may represent a straightforward and flexible way to probe the state of human thalamocortical circuits at the patient's bedside...
Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humansAdam R Aron
Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
Nat Neurosci 6:115-6. 2003
Comparative cytoarchitectonic analysis of the human and the macaque ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and corticocortical connection patterns in the monkeyM Petrides
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A B4 Canada
Eur J Neurosci 16:291-310. 2002..e. the auditory association cortex) and the multimodal cortex in the upper bank of the superior temporal sulcus...
Brain anatomical network and intelligenceYonghui Li
LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
PLoS Comput Biol 5:e1000395. 2009..Our findings suggest that the efficiency of brain structural organization may be an important biological basis for intelligence...
Whole-brain anatomical networks: does the choice of nodes matter?Andrew Zalesky
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Neuroimage 50:970-83. 2010..9 vs. sigma(4000)=53.6+/-2.2). These findings indicate that any comparison of network parameters across studies must be made with reference to the spatial scale of the nodal parcellation...
Functional MRI of language: new approaches to understanding the cortical organization of semantic processingSusan Bookheimer
Brain Mapping Center, UCLA School of Medicine, 90095, USA
Annu Rev Neurosci 25:151-88. 2002..Together, these lines of research broaden our understanding of how the brain stores, retrieves, and makes sense of semantic information, and they challenge some commonly held notions of functional modularity in the language system...
Resolving emotional conflict: a role for the rostral anterior cingulate cortex in modulating activity in the amygdalaAmit Etkin
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University Medical Center, Neurological Institute Box 108, 710 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032, USA
Neuron 51:871-82. 2006..These data suggest that emotional conflict is resolved through top-down inhibition of amygdalar activity by the rostral cingulate cortex...
Cerebellar cortical organization: a one-map hypothesisRichard Apps
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
Nat Rev Neurosci 10:670-81. 2009..Here we consider the possibility that this complexity hides the fact that the cerebellar cortex contains only one map, which has been charted in various ways...
The development of cortical connectionsDavid J Price
Centre for Integrative Physiology, Hugh Robson Building, University of Edinburgh, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK
Eur J Neurosci 23:910-20. 2006....
Identifying neural drivers with functional MRI: an electrophysiological validationOlivier David
INSERM, U836, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, Grenoble, France
PLoS Biol 6:2683-97. 2008..As such, it has important implications for future studies on brain connectivity using functional neuroimaging...
Altered resting state networks in mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease: an fMRI studySerge A R B Rombouts
Department of Physics and Medical Technology, Alzheimer Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hum Brain Mapp 26:231-9. 2005..These findings suggest that altered activity in the default mode network may act as an early marker for AD pathology...
The identification of interacting networks in the brain using fMRI: Model selection, causality and deconvolutionAlard Roebroeck
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Postbus 616, 6200MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Neuroimage 58:296-302. 2011..However, it is crucially dependent upon assumptions that need to be verified...
Slits are chemorepellents endogenous to hypothalamus and steer thalamocortical axons into ventral telencephalonJanet E Braisted
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Cereb Cortex 19:i144-51. 2009..Thus, Slits are chemorepellents for TCAs endogenous to hypothalamus and steer TCAs from diencephalon into ventral telencephalon, a critical pathfinding event defective in Slit and Robo2 mutant mice...
Molecular mapping of the neural pathways linking leptin to the neuroendocrine reproductive axisGwendolyn W Louis
Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA
Endocrinology 152:2302-10. 2011..Taken together, these findings suggest that leptin communicates with the neuroendocrine reproductive axis via multiple populations of LepRb neurons that lie afferent to both Kiss1 and GnRH neurons...
Cortical pathways to the mammalian amygdalaA J McDonald
Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia 29208, USA
Prog Neurobiol 55:257-332. 1998....
Estrogen masculinizes neural pathways and sex-specific behaviorsMelody V Wu
Program in Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Cell 139:61-72. 2009..Our results suggest that aromatization of testosterone into estrogen is important for the development and activation of neural circuits that control male territorial behaviors...
Dissociating the human language pathways with high angular resolution diffusion fiber tractographyStephen Frey
Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Neurosci 28:11435-44. 2008..Thus, monkey and human evidence suggests that the connections of areas 44 and 45 are much more differentiated than had previously been thought and provide the basis for studies searching for their differential contribution in function...
The application of graph theoretical analysis to complex networks in the brainJaap C Reijneveld
Department of Neurology, VU University Medical Center, P O Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Clin Neurophysiol 118:2317-31. 2007....
Default-mode activity during a passive sensory task: uncoupled from deactivation but impacting activationMichael D Greicius
Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94301 5719, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1484-92. 2004....
Defining functional areas in individual human brains using resting functional connectivity MRIAlexander L Cohen
Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Neuroimage 41:45-57. 2008..Our approach reliably produces maps of bounded regions appropriate in size and number for putative functional areas. These findings will hopefully stimulate further methodological refinements and validations...
Consciousness and complexityG Tononi
Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John J Hopkins Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
Science 282:1846-51. 1998..Applying measures of neural integration and complexity, together with an analysis of extensive neurological data, leads to a testable proposal-the dynamic core hypothesis-about the properties of the neural substrate of consciousness...
Excitatory signal flow and connectivity in a cortical column: focus on barrel cortexJoachim Lubke
Research Centre Julich, Institute of Neurosciences and Biophysics INB 3, Leo Brandt Str, 52425 Julich, Germany
Brain Struct Funct 212:3-17. 2007..This review attempts to summarize recent advances in the study of individual microcircuits and their functional relevance within the framework of a cortical column, with emphasis on excitatory signal flow...
Episodic memory, amnesia, and the hippocampal-anterior thalamic axisJ P Aggleton
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF1 3YG, Wales
Behav Brain Sci 22:425-44; discussion 444-89. 1999..In the large majority of amnesic cases both the hippocampal-anterior thalamic and the perirhinal-medial dorsal thalamic systems are compromised, leading to severe deficits in both recall and recognition...
Perisomatic feedback inhibition underlies cholinergically induced fast network oscillations in the rat hippocampus in vitroEdward O Mann
University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK
Neuron 45:105-17. 2005..AMPA receptor-mediated recurrent excitation was necessary for the synchronization of interneuronal discharge, which strongly supports a synaptic feedback model for the generation of hippocampal gamma oscillations...
A simple view of the brain through a frequency-specific functional connectivity measureR Salvador
Fundació Sant Joan de Déu, SJD SSM, Dr Antoni Pujadas, 42 Sant Boi de Llobregat 08830, Barcelona, Spain
Neuroimage 39:279-89. 2008..Finally, potentially confounding effects of head movement and regional volume on MI are identified and addressed...
A tension-based theory of morphogenesis and compact wiring in the central nervous systemD C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Nature 385:313-8. 1997..By keeping the aggregate length of axonal and dendritic wiring low, tension should contribute to the compactness of neural circuitry throughout the adult brain...
Area specificity and topography of thalamocortical projections are controlled by ephrin/Eph genesAudrey Dufour
IRIBHM, University of Brussels U L B, 808 Route de Lennik, B 1070 Brussels, Belgium
Neuron 39:453-65. 2003....
Early forebrain wiring: genetic dissection using conditional Celsr3 mutant miceLibing Zhou
Developmental Neurobiology, Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgique
Science 320:946-9. 2008..These observations provide in vivo evidence that Celsr3-mediated interactions between axons and guidepost cells govern axonal tract formation in mammals...
Activity and connectivity of brain mood regulating circuit in depression: a functional magnetic resonance studyAmit Anand
Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:1079-88. 2005..In this study, using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), we investigated differences in cortico-limbic activity and connectivity between depressed patients and healthy controls...
The arcuate fasciculus and the disconnection theme in language and aphasia: history and current stateMarco Catani
Natbrainlab, Section of Brain Maturation, King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Cortex 44:953-61. 2008....
Synaptic basis for intense thalamocortical activation of feedforward inhibitory cells in neocortexScott J Cruikshank
Department of Neuroscience, Division of Biology and Medicine, Box G LN, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Nat Neurosci 10:462-8. 2007..These results demonstrate the importance of selective synaptic targeting and precise timing in the initial stages of neocortical processing...
Impaired small-world efficiency in structural cortical networks in multiple sclerosis associated with white matter lesion loadYong He
State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Brain 132:3366-79. 2009....
Extensive cortical rewiring after brain injuryNuma Dancause
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA
J Neurosci 25:10167-79. 2005..Our results reveal an extraordinary anatomical rewiring capacity in the adult CNS after injury that may potentially play a role in recovery...
The anatomical connections of the macaque monkey orbitofrontal cortex. A reviewC Cavada
Departamento de Morfologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28029 Madrid, Spain
Cereb Cortex 10:220-42. 2000....
Nonlinear connectivity by Granger causalityDaniele Marinazzo
Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology, CNRS UMR 8119, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Neuroimage 58:330-8. 2011..We review them and focus on a recently proposed flexible approach has been recently proposed, consisting in the kernel version of Granger causality. We show the application of the proposed approach on EEG signals and fMRI data...
Cross-modal plasticity: where and how?Daphne Bavelier
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Meliora Hall, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 3:443-52. 2002....
Ome sweet ome: what can the genome tell us about the connectome?Jeff W Lichtman
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 18:346-53. 2008..Remarkably similar objections were voiced when the Human Genome Project, now widely viewed as a success, was first proposed. We revisit that controversy to ask if it holds any lessons for proposals to map the connectome...
Tract-based spatial statistics: voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion dataStephen M Smith
Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain FMRIB, Dept Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, UK
Neuroimage 31:1487-505. 2006..TBSS aims to improve the sensitivity, objectivity and interpretability of analysis of multi-subject diffusion imaging studies. We describe TBSS in detail and present example TBSS results from several diffusion imaging studies...
Cytoarchitecture and probabilistic maps of the human posterior insular cortexFlorian Kurth
C and O Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Cereb Cortex 20:1448-61. 2010..These maps can be used to identify the anatomical correlates of functional activations observed in neuroimaging studies and to understand the microstructural correlates of the functional segregation of the human posterior insula...
Neural substrates of motor memory consolidation depend on practice structureShailesh S Kantak
Motor Behavior and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory, Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 13:923-5. 2010..We conclude that neural substrates of motor-memory consolidation are modulated by practice structure...
Genetics and cell biology of building specific synaptic connectivityKang Shen
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology and Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Annu Rev Neurosci 33:473-507. 2010..This molecular complexity balances the need for central circuits to be assembled with high accuracy during development while retaining plasticity for local and dynamic regulation...
Dynamics of sparsely connected networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neuronsN Brunel
LPS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
J Comput Neurosci 8:183-208. 2000..In the slow oscillatory state, the network frequency depends mostly on the membrane time constant. Finite size effects in the asynchronous state are also discussed...
White matter tracts associated with set-shifting in healthy agingMichele E Perry
Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Neuropsychologia 47:2835-42. 2009..Automated tractography methods can enhance our understanding of the fiber systems involved in performance of specific cognitive tasks and of the functional consequences of age-related changes in those systems...
Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognitionDavid M Amodio
Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York 10003, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 7:268-77. 2006....
Alterations in frontal lobe tracts and corpus callosum in young children with autism spectrum disorderAjay Kumar
Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
Cereb Cortex 20:2103-13. 2010..Volume of bilateral UF and right AF and fiber density of left UF were positively associated with autistic features...
Auditory selective attention to speech modulates activity in the visual word form areaYuliya N Yoncheva
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
Cereb Cortex 20:622-32. 2010....
Functional connectivity bias of the orbitofrontal cortex in drug-free patients with major depressionThomas Frodl
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 67:161-7. 2010..The aim of this study was to compare the functional connectivity of the OFC during emotion processing in patients with major depression and healthy control subjects...
Separate neural pathways process different decision costsPeter H Rudebeck
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
Nat Neurosci 9:1161-8. 2006..Although the existence of two systems is not predicted by economic accounts of decision making, our results suggest that delay and effort may exert distinct influences on decision making...
The prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts and cognitionEarl K Miller
Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN MIT Neuroscience Research Center and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 357:1123-36. 2002..In short, the prefrontal cortex seems to underlie our internal representations of the 'rules of the game'. This may provide the necessary foundation for the complex behaviour of primates, in whom this structure is most elaborate...
Serotonin modulation of the basal ganglia circuitry: therapeutic implication for Parkinson's disease and other motor disordersVincenzo Di Matteo
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, 66030 Santa Maria, Imbaro, Chieti, Italy
Prog Brain Res 172:423-63. 2008..Nevertheless, these studies have led to a great increase in the attention given to the neurotransmitters of the basal ganglia and their connections...
Microstructural organization of the cingulum tract and the level of default mode functional connectivityMartijn van den Heuvel
Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Neurosci 28:10844-51. 2008..Our results suggest a direct relationship between the structural and functional connectivity measures of the default mode network and contribute to the understanding of default mode network connectivity...
Functional neurogenesis in the adult hippocampusHenriette van Praag
Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
Nature 415:1030-4. 2002..Our findings demonstrate that newly generated cells mature into functional neurons in the adult mammalian brain...
Combinatorial amygdalar inputs to hippocampal domains and hypothalamic behavior systemsG D Petrovich
Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Brain Res Brain Res Rev 38:247-89. 2001....
Cortico-limbic-striatal circuits subserving different forms of cost-benefit decision makingStan B Floresco
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 8:375-89. 2008..The fact that similar neural circuits are recruited to solve these types of problems in both humans and animals suggests that animal models of decision making will prove useful in elucidating the mechanisms mediating these processes...
Neurogenin2 specifies the connectivity of thalamic neurons by controlling axon responsiveness to intermediate target cuesJulie Seibt
INSERM U371, 18 Avenue Doyen Lepine, 69675 Bron, France
Neuron 39:439-52. 2003..Our results thus demonstrate that in parallel to their well-documented proneural function, bHLH transcription factors also contribute to the specification of neuronal connectivity in the mammalian brain...
Connections underlying the synthesis of cognition, memory, and emotion in primate prefrontal corticesH Barbas
Department of Health Sciences, Boston University and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Brain Res Bull 52:319-30. 2000....
Dissociable substrates for body motion and physical experience in the human action observation networkEmily S Cross
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK
Eur J Neurosci 30:1383-92. 2009..Our findings suggest that the AON comprises separate and dissociable components for motor planning and observing other people's actions...
Hierarchical organization of human cortical networks in health and schizophreniaDanielle S Bassett
Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, Genes Cognition and Psychosis Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Neurosci 28:9239-48. 2008....
When less is more: TPJ and default network deactivation during encoding predicts working memory performanceAlan Anticevic
Department of Psychology, Campus Box 1125, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA
Neuroimage 49:2638-48. 2010..In addition, the functional connectivity results suggest that TPJ, while not part of the DMN during the resting state, may flexibly "couple" with this network depending on task demands...
Basal forebrain activation enhances cortical coding of natural scenesMichael Goard
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 12:1444-9. 2009..Thus, the basal forebrain neuromodulatory circuit, which is known to be activated during aroused and attentive states, acts through both local and distributed mechanisms to improve sensory coding...
Specialization in the default mode: Task-induced brain deactivations dissociate between visual working memory and attentionJutta S Mayer
Department of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 31:126-39. 2010..The DMN can thus be subdivided into a set of brain regions that deactivate indiscriminately in response to cognitive demand ("the core DMN") and a part whose deactivation depends on the specific task...
Conditions for propagating synchronous spiking and asynchronous firing rates in a cortical network modelArvind Kumar
Neurobiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biology III, Albert Ludwigs University, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Neurosci 28:5268-80. 2008..This opens the possibility of computational mechanisms using transient synchrony among the activities in multiple FFNs...
Research Grants
- NEURAL PATHWAYS FOR METABOLIC CONTROL OF INGESTIONS Ritter; Fiscal Year: 1999..feeding response and fos expression to glucoprivic and lipoprivic agents in rats in which aspects of these neural pathways have been lesioned...
- Central Sympathetic Regulation of Thermogenesis in FeverShaun F Morrison; Fiscal Year: 2010..PGE2 binding to EP3 inhibitory receptors on neurons in the POA increases core body temperature by activating neural pathways to four principal thermoregulatory effectors: increased heat production from brown adipose tissue (BAT) ..
- Chemical Anatomy and Synaptology of Vestibulo-Sympathetic PathwaysGAY HOLSTEIN; Fiscal Year: 2009..However, the chemical anatomy, connectivity and synaptology of the neural pathways underlying this integration remain largely unknown...
- Bladder, Urethra and Anal Sphincter ReinnervationMICHAEL RAYMOND contact RUGGIERI; Fiscal Year: 2010..These patients require new neural pathways to regain control of bladder function...
- Neurobiology of Anorexia and Bulimia NervosaWalter H Kaye; Fiscal Year: 2010..In order to accelerate understanding of structure and perfusion of limbic and cognitive neural pathways in AN and BN, this revised application adds the following advanced imaging tools: 1) Morphometry with proton ..
- Factors that Initiate Arrhythamias in Long QT SyndromeGuy Salama; Fiscal Year: 2006..Pharmacological agents will then be per'fused to block specific neural pathways to identify the underlying neuronal mechanisms...
- Central Sympathetic Regulation of Thermogenesis in FeverShaun F Morrison; Fiscal Year: 2010..PGE2 binding to EP3 inhibitory receptors on neurons in the POA increases core body temperature by activating neural pathways to four principal thermoregulatory effectors: increased heat production from brown adipose tissue (BAT) ..
- Mechanisms of Therapeutic Action in SCIMehdi M Mirbagheri; Fiscal Year: 2010..develop accurate, quantitative models, capable of distinguishing changes in muscular system from changes in neural pathways in neurological disorders such as SCI...
- Mechanisms of Therapeutic Action in SCIMEHDI MIRBAGHERI; Fiscal Year: 2009..develop accurate, quantitative models, capable of distinguishing changes in muscular system from changes in neural pathways in neurological disorders such as SCI...
- GASTRIC ENTEROCHROMAFFIN-LIKE CELL IN ULCER DISEASEGeorge Sachs; Fiscal Year: 2005..Studies of regulation of secretion have used various models. Intact animal studies have defined some neural pathways and endocrine and paracrine effectors...
- NEURAL PATHWAYS UNDERLYING EMOTIONAL CONDITIONINGJoseph E LeDoux; Fiscal Year: 2010..The neural pathways involved include transmission of CS information from the auditory system to the lateral amygdala (LA), where ..
- Cholecystokinin - Role in postprandial gastric motilityHelen E Raybould; Fiscal Year: 2010..Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanisms by which nutrients are sensed in the gut, the neural pathways activated, and how these may be altered by long term changes in diet leading to increased food intake and ..
- Development of Leptin-Sensitive Hypothalamic PathwaysRichard Simerly; Fiscal Year: 2005..on ARH projections, and that developmental perturbations in leptin signaling cause permanent changes in neural pathways that transmit leptin signals in mature animals...
- Chemical Anatomy and Synaptology of Vestibulo-Sympathetic PathwaysGay R Holstein; Fiscal Year: 2010..However, the chemical anatomy, connectivity and synaptology of the neural pathways underlying this integration remain largely unknown...
- VESTIBULAR INFLUENCES ON THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEMBill J Yates; Fiscal Year: 2010..This result indicates the existence of neural pathways that independently control sympathetic outflow to the forelimb and hindlimb...
- Olfactory Circuits for Reproduction and RewardJames A Cherry; Fiscal Year: 2011..However, failure to identify the neural pathways through which such signals access reproductive circuits has impeded our understanding of how human "..
- Olfactory Circuits for Reproduction and RewardJames A Cherry; Fiscal Year: 2010..However, failure to identify the neural pathways through which such signals access reproductive circuits has impeded our understanding of how human "..
- Neurochemistry/physiology of proopiomelanocortin neuronsMalcolm Low; Fiscal Year: 2009..These neural pathways are candidate targets for the development of new pharmacotherapies aimed at reversing the obesity epidemic ..
- Neurochemistry/physiology of proopiomelanocortin neuronsMALCOLM JAMES LOW; Fiscal Year: 2010..These neural pathways are candidate targets for the development of new pharmacotherapies aimed at reversing the obesity epidemic ..
- Neurochemistry/physiology of proopiomelanocortin neuronsMALCOLM JAMES LOW; Fiscal Year: 2010..These neural pathways are candidate targets for the development of new pharmacotherapies aimed at reversing the obesity epidemic ..
- Central Sympathetic Regulation of Thermogenesis in FeverShaun Morrison; Fiscal Year: 2007..would be aided by an understanding of the functional organization and neurotransmitters within the neural pathways that are activated by endogenous pyrogens...
- Neurogenetic Model of Social Behavior Heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum DisordersMichael Platt; Fiscal Year: 2009..variation in key genes impairs these behaviors in humans and rhesus in similar ways; and the same underlying neural pathways mediate the extraction of social information from the environment, translation of that information into ..
- Complex pitch perception in very-early implanted childrenRosalie Uchanski; Fiscal Year: 2007..deafened adult Cl user, electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve is subsequently processed by auditory neural pathways that had developed normally; pathways that, for example, once preserved a good tonotopic map at the auditory ..
- MUCOCILIARY TRANSPORT--INHIBITORY NEURAL REGULATIONDONOVAN YEATES; Fiscal Year: 2003DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): We have discovered novel inhibitory neural pathways which interact with excitatory neural reflexes to regulate tracheobronchial mucociliary function...
- Role of the lateral hypothalamic area in leptin actionMartin G Myers; Fiscal Year: 2010..entitled, Role of the lateral hypothalamic area in leptin action, we will analyze novel leptin-regulated neural pathways in the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) that likely contribute to body energy homeostasis...
- Neural basis of learned food aversion and nauseaCHARLES HORN; Fiscal Year: 2009..Little is known about the neural pathways and mechanism for detecting toxins...
- NEURAL CONTROL OF LARGE INTESTINAL MUCOSAHelen Cooke; Fiscal Year: 1993..b>Neural pathways will be identified by pharmacological analysis, release of 3H- acetylcholine and VIP, intracellular ..
- CNS Counterregulatory MechanismsLauren Jacobson; Fiscal Year: 2004..Elucidating neural pathways underlying the regulation of counterregulatory responses, and of epinephrine in particular, will aid in ..
- Stress and CRF Signaling in Alzheimer?s Disease PathogenesisPAUL E contact SAWCHENKO; Fiscal Year: 2010..of CRF ligand-containing inputs to hippocampus, and then test experimentally the involvement of implicated neural pathways. Third, we will characterize the effects of repeated exposure to emotional stress on tau-P and A production, ..
- GUT PEPTIDES IN INTESTINAL PERISTALSISJOHN GRIDER; Fiscal Year: 2003..The experimental approach exploits novel preparations that enable identification of the neural pathways: (1) compartmented intestinal segments to measure release of sensory (CGRP), modulatory neural pathways: (1) ..
- ROLE OF GUT PEPTIDES IN INTESTINAL PERISTALSISJOHN GRIDER; Fiscal Year: 1993The aim of this proposal is to characterize the neural pathways that regulate the intestinal peristaltic reflex in humans and animals, in particular, to identify the peptide transmitters that control the sensory, modulatory and motor ..
