Brain - Physiology
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Visual learning shapes the processing of complex movement stimuli in the human brain.

2 Nov 2009 Recognition of actions and complex movements is fundamental for social interactions and action understanding. While the relationship between motor expertise and visual recognition of body movements has received a vast amount of interest, the role of ... Read more...

A stretch from the periphery helps brain clocks feel the daily heat.

27 Oct 2009 In this issue of Neuron, Sehadova et al. show that synchronization of circadian clocks in the brains of Drosophila by daily temperature changes requires chordotonal organs, mechanosensory structures that function as stretch receptors in insects. ... Read more...

Focus issue: addressing complicated questions in neuroscience.

18 Oct 2009 This week Science and Science Signaling turn the spotlight on neuroscience, with Science highlighting how advances in methodology are providing insight into the organization and regulation of neural circuits and the behavior of neurons. Science ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Brain - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Visual learning shapes the processing of complex movement stimuli in the human brain. 2 Nov 2009
• A stretch from the periphery helps brain clocks feel the daily heat. 27 Oct 2009
• Astrocyte-neuron interactions: implications for epilepsy. 18 Oct 2009
• Focus issue: addressing complicated questions in neuroscience. 18 Oct 2009
• Viral strategies for studying the brain, including a replication-restricted self-amplifying delta-G vesicular stomatis virus that rapidly expresses transgenes in brain and can generate a multicolor golgi-like expression. 18 Oct 2009
• Opening up the JCN toolbox. 18 Oct 2009
• Writing memories with light-addressable reinforcement circuitry. 14 Oct 2009
• New routes for memory retrieval and reinforcement. 14 Oct 2009
• Modalities, modes, and models in functional neuroimaging. 14 Oct 2009
• The optogenetic catechism. 14 Oct 2009
• Molecular and cellular approaches to memory allocation in neural circuits. 14 Oct 2009
• Massively parallel brain imaging. 14 Oct 2009
• Neuroscience methods. So you want to learn how to network? Introduction. 14 Oct 2009
• Newsmaker interview. Tonegawa rethinks Japan's premier brain research center. Interview by Dennis Normile. 14 Oct 2009
• Great expectations. 14 Oct 2009
• Innate and adaptive autoimmunity directed to the central nervous system. 13 Oct 2009
• Immune activation in brain aging and neurodegeneration: too much or too little? 13 Oct 2009
• Immune proteins in brain development and synaptic plasticity. 13 Oct 2009
• Immune influence on adult neural stem cell regulation and function. 13 Oct 2009
• Cytokines and CNS development. 13 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'Brain'

Definition: The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.

Descriptor UI: D001921

Alternative terms: Brain; Brains; Encephalon; Encephalons;

Related Mesh Headings: Cerebral Decortication; Psychosurgery;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; surgery; ultrastructure; virology;

Tree Number: A08.186.211;

Online Note: pre-explosion = BRAIN (PX)

History Note: /enzymology was BRAIN ENZYMOLOGY 1964-65; /physiology was BRAIN PHYSIOLOGY 1965; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY was heading 1964-65

Technical Notes: general; /blood supply: consider also CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; CRANIAL SINUSES; /cytol: do not routinely convert to NEURONS; /surg: consider specific neurosurgical procedures in Category E4; inflammation = ENCEPHALITIS & its specifics; infarct = CEREBRAL INFARCTION; malacia = ENCEPHALOMALACIA; brain-isolated, encéphale isolé, cerveau isolé: index DECEREBRATE STATE