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Mesolimbic pathway

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Epigenetic mechanisms, such as histone modifications, regulate responsiveness to drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, but relatively little is known about the regulation of addictive-like behaviors by DNA methylation. To investigate the influence of DNA methyl ...

Soc Neuroscience2015

Apathy and noradrenaline: silent partners to mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease?

Kerstin Preuschoff, Leyla Loued-Khenissi

Purpose of review Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a comorbid factor in Parkinson's disease. The aim of this review is to examine the recent neuroimaging findings in the search for Parkinson's disease MCI (PD-MCI) biomarkers to gain insight on whether MC ...

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins2015

Medial Forebrain Bundle Deep Brain Stimulation has Symptom-specific Anti-depressant Effects in Rats and as Opposed to Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation Interacts With the Reward System

Martin Vogel

Background: In recent years, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has emerged as a promising treatment option for patients suffering from treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Several stimulation targets have successfully been tested in clinical settings, includin ...

Elsevier Science Inc2015

Automatic target validation based on neuroscientific literature mining for tractography

Jean-Cédric Chappelier, Sean Lewis Hill, Jocelyne Bloch, Bogdan Draganski, Renaud Luc Richardet, Xavier Vasques, David Slater

Target identification for tractography studies requires solid anatomical knowledge validated by an extensive literature review across species for each seed structure to be studied. Manual literature review to identify targets for a given seed region is ted ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

Lack of additive role of ageing in nigrostriatal neurodegeneration triggered by alpha-synuclein overexpression

Grégoire Courtine, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Isabel Laura Vollenweider

Introduction: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons as well as the presence of proteinaceous inclusions named Lewy bodies. alpha synuclein (alpha-syn) is a major constituent o ...

Biomed Central Ltd2015

Duration of Purkinje cell complex spikes increases with their firing frequency

Michele Giugliano

Climbing fiber (CF) triggered complex spikes (CS) are massive depolarization bursts in the cerebellar Purkinje cell (PC), showing several high frequency spikelet components (+/- 600 Hz). Since its early observations, the CS is known to vary in shape. In th ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

Social reward improves the voluntary control over localized brain activity in fMRI-based neurofeedback training

Yury Koush

Neurofeedback (NF) based on real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) allows voluntary regulation of the activity in a selected brain region. For the training of this regulation, a well-designed feedback system is required. Social reward ma ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

Serotonergic neurons signal reward and punishment on multiple timescales

Serotonin's function in the brain is unclear. One challenge in testing the numerous hypotheses about serotonin's function has been observing the activity of identified serotonergic neurons in animals engaged in behavioral tasks. We recorded the activity of ...

2015

PGC-1 alpha activity in nigral dopamine neurons determines vulnerability to alpha-synuclein

Bernard Schneider, Graham Knott, Wojciech Janusz Bobela, Lu Zheng

Introduction: Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress are critical factors in the pathogenesis of age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases. PGC-1 alpha, a master regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis and cellular antioxidant defense, has emerged as ...

Biomed Central Ltd2015

Mitochondrial function in the brain links anxiety with social subordination

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Carlos Canto Alvarez, Olivia Zanoletti, Fiona Hollis, Michael van der Kooij, Laura Lozano Montes

Dominance hierarchies are integral aspects of social groups, yet whether personality traits may predispose individuals to a particular rank remains unclear. Here we show that trait anxiety directly influences social dominance in male outbred rats and ident ...

2015

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