Featured Article of EJN Issue 37-11 Motor cortex plasticity induced by theta burst stimulation is impaired in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea by George M. Opie, Peter G. Catcheside, Zafar A. Usmani, Michael C. Ridding and John G. Semmler Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) causes changes within the brain that may affect intracortical inhibition (ICI) …
EJN Article published as part of issue 37/8 by Julie S. Pendergast, Katrina L. Branecky, William Yang, Kate L. J. Ellacott, Kevin D. Niswender and Shin Yamazaki In this EJN article, the effects of 1 week of high-fat diet consumption on tissue and behavioral circadian rhythms in mice were investigated. To determine if the high-fat diet …
Using EEG, low-frequency, high-amplitude oscillations are characteristic of non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM). These oscillations have been proposed to play a role in memory. In the featured article entitled “Napping to renew learning capacity: enhanced encoding after stimulation of sleep slow oscillations“, the authors found that stimulation of sleep slow oscillations by transcranial …
EJN Article published as part of issue 37/7 by Ziad M. Hafed, Lee P. Lovejoy and Richard J. Krauzlis While microsaccadic eye movements have traditionally been viewed as random, it was recently discovered that their directions can be significantly biased by covertly attended visual stimuli. Using reversible, focal inactivation, we found that activity in the …
Technical Spotlight of EJN issue 37-8 by Ji-Yoen Kim, Ryan T. Ash, Carolina Ceballos-Diaz, Yona Levites, Todd E. Golde, Stelios M. Smirnakis and Joanna L. Jankowsky Freehand injection of recombinant AAV into the neonatal mouse brain offers a fast and easy way to attain widespread genetic manipulation of neurons throughout the brain. Rapid …
Neurons can last a lifetime, so how do these cells cope with repetitive stress exposure? In a previous study published in EJN (Doehner, 2012), Knuesel’s Lab investigated the ultrastructural properties of Reelin-positive granular aggregates (typical feature of aging) and found accumulation of Reelin in varicosities in dendritic and axonal compartments, particularly in aged immune-challenged mice. …
Featured article of EJN issue 37-5 by Sabrina Boll, Matthias Gamer, Sebastian Gluth, Jürgen Finsterbusch and Christian Büchel We employed an aversive Pavlovian reversal-learning task to investigate computational signals derived from a Rescorla-Wagner/ Pearce-Hall hybrid model of reinforcement learning. Our data show that activity in the corticomedial amygdala as well as in the midbrain …
Featured article of EJN issue 37-3 by Margaret R. Bell, Kayla C. De Lorme, Rayson J. Figueira, Deborah A. Kashy and Cheryl L. Sisk Adolescence is a time of major behavioral change, and responses to social cues must mature to promote adult-like behaviors. Juvenile hamsters do not show sexual behavior with …
Technical Spotlight of EJN issue 37-2 by Christian O’Reilly, Réjean Plamondon, Mohamed K. Landou and Brigitte Stemmer This article presents an exploratory study investigating the possibility of predicting the time occurrence of a motor event related potential (ERP) from a kinematic analysis of human movements. Although the response-locked motor potential may link the ERP …
Featured article of EJN issue 37-1 by Minh Nui Nguyen, Etsuro Hori, Jumpei Matsumoto, Anh Hai Tran, Taketoshi Ono and Hisao Nishijo The pulvinar nuclei appear to function as the subcortical visual pathway that bypasses the striate cortex, rapidly processing coarse facial information. We investigated responses from monkey pulvinar neurons during a delayed …