Costa-Ferreira, Willian Gomes-de-Souza, Lucas Crestani, Carlos C
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The European journal of neuroscience
This study investigated the role of AT1 , AT2 and Mas angiotensinergic receptors within the MeA in autonomic, cardiovascular and baroreflex changes evoked by a 10-day (1 hr daily) repeated restraint stress (RRS) protocol. Analysis of cardiovascular function after the end of the RRS protocol indicated increased values of arterial pressure, without h...
Wynn, Syanah C Nyhus, Erika Jensen, Ole
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The European journal of neuroscience
To successfully encode information into long-term memory, we need top-down control to focus our attention on target stimuli. This attentional focus is achieved by the modulation of sensory neuronal excitability through alpha power. Failure to modulate alpha power and to inhibit distracting information has been reported in older adults during attent...
Berteotti, Chiara Liguori, Claudio Pace, Marta
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The European journal of neuroscience
Neuropeptides orexin A and B (OX-A/B, also called hypocretin 1 and 2) are released selectively by a population of neurons which projects widely into the entire central nervous system but are localized in a restricted area of the tuberal region of the hypothalamus, caudal to the paraventricular nucleus. The OX system prominently targets brain struct...
Workman, Craig D Fietsam, Alexandra C Kamholz, John Rudroff, Thorsten
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The European journal of neuroscience
Interest in transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to alter cortical excitability, facilitate neural plasticity, and improve performance is increasing. Subjects often report temporary stimulation-related sensations, which might distract from the task being performed or compromise blinding. tDCS is also prone to high outcome irregularity and...
Jones, Travis Hadley, Hillary Cataldo, Andrea M Arnold, Erik Curran, Tim Tanaka, James W Scott, Lisa S
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The European journal of neuroscience
Perceptual expertise is marked by subordinate-level recognition of objects in the expert domain. In this study, participants learned one family of full-color, artificial objects at the subordinate (species) level and another family at the basic (family) level. Discrimination of trained and untrained exemplars was tested before and after training ac...
O'Reilly, Jamie A Conway, Bernard A
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The European journal of neuroscience
Human mismatch negativity (MMN) is modelled in rodents and other non-human species to examine its underlying neurological mechanisms, primarily described in terms of deviance-detection and adaptation. Using the mouse model, we aim to elucidate subtle dependencies between the mismatch response (MMR) and different physical properties of sound. Epidur...
Leek, E Charles Roberts, Mark V Dundon, Neil M Pegna, Alan J
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The European journal of neuroscience
This study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to elucidate how the human visual system processes three-dimensional (3-D) object shape structure. In particular, we examined whether the perceptual mechanisms that support the analysis of 3-D shape are differentially sensitive to higher order surface and volumetric part structure. Observers performed...
File, Domonkos Sulykos, István Czigler, István
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The European journal of neuroscience
Visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) is the electrophysiological correlate of automatic detection of unattended changes in the visual environment. However, vMMNs' relatedness to spatial attention has not been explicitly tested. Thus, the aim of the study was to investigate the effects of spatial attention on the vMMN event-related potential component....
Smith, Joshua L Carbine, Kaylie A Larson, Michael J Tucker, Larry A Christensen, William F LeCheminant, James D Bailey, Bruce W
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The European journal of neuroscience
Sedentary behaviors, such as computer use and sedentary video games, are barriers to physical activity, contribute to overweight and obesity among adolescents, and can adversely affect eating behaviors. Active video games may increase daily physical activity levels among adolescents and improve food-related inhibitory control. We compared the effec...
Rodriguez-Larios, Julio Alaerts, Kaat
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The European journal of neuroscience
Meditation practice entails moments of distraction dominated by self-generated thoughts (i.e. mind wandering). Initial studies assessing the neural correlates of mind wandering in the context of meditation practice have identified an important role of theta (4-8 Hz) and alpha (8-14 Hz) neural oscillations. In this study, we use a probe-caught exper...
