English Journal

Neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius mediate the acupuncture analgesia in visceral pain rats.

Liu K1, Gao XY2, Li L3, Ben H3, Qin QG4, Zhao YX3, Zhu B5.
Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical.Auton Neurosci.2014 Aug 28. pii: S1566-0702(14)00119-2. doi: 10.1016/j.autneu.2014.08.004. [Epub ahead of print]
The study investigated the role of nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) neurons in electroacupuncture (EA) analgesia in colorectal distension (CRD) rats. NTS neurons responding to both CRD test and EA conditioning stimulations were considered somato-visceral convergent neurons. The neuronal activities e
PMID 25204607

Bidirectional neural connectivity between basal temporal and posterior language areas in humans.

Araki K1, Terada K2, Usui K1, Usui N3, Araki Y1, Baba K3, Matsuda K3, Tottori T3, Inoue Y4.
Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.Clin Neurophysiol.2014 Aug 19. pii: S1388-2457(14)00416-7. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.07.020. [Epub ahead of print]
OBJECTIVE: The basal temporal language area (BTL) is known to be involved in the semantic processing of language. To investigate the neural connectivity between BTL and the posterior language area (PL), we used cortico-cortical evoked potential (CCEP) technique.METHODS: Four patients with intractabl
PMID 25190148

Anatomical constraints on lateral competition in columnar cortical architectures.

Muir DR1, Cook M.
Neural computation.Neural Comput.2014 Aug;26(8):1624-66. doi: 10.1162/NECO_a_00613. Epub 2014 May 30.
Competition is a well-studied and powerful mechanism for information processing in neuronal networks, providing noise rejection, signal restoration, decision making and associative memory properties, with relatively simple requirements for network architecture. Models based on competitive interactio
PMID 24877732

Japanese Journal

Multisynaptic projections from the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex to hand and mouth representations of the monkey primary motor cortex.

Miyachi Shigehiro,Hirata Yoshihiro,Inoue Ken-Ichi,Lu Xiaofeng,Nambu Atsushi,Takada Masahiko
Neuroscience research 76(3), 141-149, 2013-07
… To test this hypothesis anatomically, we examined the patterns of multisynaptic projections from the PF to regions of the primary motor cortex (MI) that represent the arm, hand, and mouth, using retrograde transsynaptic transport of rabies virus. … The present results suggest that the PF-MI multisynaptic projections may be organized such that the MI hand and mouth regions preferentially receive cognitive information for execution of elaborate motor actions. …
NAID 120005296162