Ephaptic coupling
The electrical conduction system of the heart has been robustly established. However, newer research has been challenging some ... It was also shown that such unidirectional synchronization or copy/paste transfer of neural dynamics from master to slave ... Hand PE, Griffith BE (August 2010). "Adaptive multiscale model for simulating cardiac conduction". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A ... Mori Y, Fishman GI, Peskin CS (April 2008). "Ephaptic conduction in a cardiac strand model with 3D electrodiffusion". Proc. ...
Neuroimaging intelligence testing
... and speed of neural conduction. Various instruments have been employed to measure these things. Brain ERPs allow for the " ... Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) has been studied, giving varying results. Some have hypothesized that "higher intelligence is ... associated with better 'neural efficiency.'" A few studies suggested an association between nerve conduction velocity and ... Knowing how parts of the brain are utilized may reveal more information about the structure and hierarchy used in neural ...
Peroneal nerve paralysis
It is the speed at which an electrochemical impulse propagates down a neural pathway. Conduction velocities are affected by a ... Nerve conduction velocity is an important aspect of nerve conduction studies. ... To perform nerve conduction velocity, surface electrodes are placed onto the skin over nerves at various locations. Each patch ... On one hand, certain preoperative information about the overall state of an injured nerve (state of the neural and perineural ...
Medial forebrain bundle
The other one is the dorsal diencephalic conduction (DDC) system. The two pathways seem to have parallel neural circuits, and ... The medial forebrain bundle (MFB), is a neural pathway containing fibers from the basal olfactory regions, the periamygdaloid ...
Spike directivity
Sasaki, T., Matsuki, N., Ikegaya, Y. 2011 Action-potential modulation during axonal conduction. Science 331 (6017), pp. 599-601 ... Orphaned articles from July 2021, All orphaned articles, Neural coding, Electrophysiology, Computational neuroscience, Cellular ...
Brain cell
They can only function in collaboration with other neurons and interneurons in a neural circuit. There are an estimated 100 ... Neurons are polarised cells that are specialised for the conduction of action potentials also called nerve impulses. They can ... Perea, G; Araque, A (January 2005). "Synaptic regulation of the astrocyte calcium signal". Journal of Neural Transmission. 112 ... in neural circuits and larger brain networks. The two main neuronal classes in the cerebral cortex are excitatory projection ...
CNS demyelinating autoimmune diseases
The loss of the myelin insulation either disrupts or prevents neural conduction along the nerve cell's axon. The brain and the ... This insulation helps the axon of a nerve cell with the conduction and speed of the signal along the axon. The pathogenesis of ... Transverse myelitis Neuromyelitis optica Since the neural impulse is inhibited in this condition it may lead to paresthesia, ...
Stéphanie P. Lacour
A microfabricated nerve-on-a-chip platform for rapid assessment of neural conduction in explanted peripheral nerve fibers. Nat ... "A microfabricated nerve-on-a-chip platform for rapid assessment of neural conduction in explanted peripheral nerve fibers". ... "A microfabricated nerve-on-a-chip platform for rapid assessment of neural conduction in explanted peripheral nerve fibers". ... IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, special issue on Neural interfaces to the Peripheral ...
Alcoholic polyneuropathy
Neural tissues depend on this process for energy, and disruption of the cycle would impair cell growth and function. Schwann ... The slowed conduction of action potentials in axons causes segmental demyelination extending proximally; this is also known as ... Thus, neural deterioration occurs in an accelerating cycle: myelin damage reduces conductance, and reduced conductance ... Thiamine deficiency alone could explain the impaired nerve conduction in those with alcoholic polyneuropathy, but other factors ...
Heart development
Most conduction pathways originate from the cardiogenic mesoderm but the sinus node may be derived from the neural crest. The ... The central part of cardiogenic area is in front of the oropharyngeal membrane and the neural plate. The growth of the brain ... The heartbeat is initiated in the pacemaker regions and spreads to the rest of the heart through a conduction pathway. ... In the splanchnopleuric mesenchyme on either side of the neural plate, a horseshoe-shaped area develops as the cardiogenic ...
Dendrite
Increased neural activity and the establishment of long-term potentiation at dendritic spines change the sizes, shape, and ... Yau, K. W. (1976). "Receptive fields, geometry and conduction block of sensory neurones in the central nervous system of the ... McEwen, Bruce S. (2010). "Stress, sex, and neural adaptation to a changing environment: mechanisms of neuronal remodeling". ... Kandel, Eric R. (2003). Principles of neural science (4th ed.). Cambridge: McGrawHill. ISBN 0-8385-7701-6. Koch, Christof (1999 ...
Sulfatide
When sulfatide is not distributed properly, it can affect the normal physiological conduction of electrical impulses between ... Aside from being a membrane component, sulfatide functions in protein trafficking, cell aggregation and adhesion, neural ... However, how sulfatide buildup causes demyelination and neural degeneration is still mostly unknown. Metachromatic ...
Axon
The fastest recorded conduction speed of 210 m/s, is found in the ensheathed axons of some pelagic Penaeid shrimps and the ... Examples of CAMs specific to neural systems include N-CAM, TAG-1 - an axonal glycoprotein - and MAG, all of which are part of ... In saltatory conduction, electrical currents produced at each node of Ranvier are conducted with little attenuation to the next ... The myelinated axons from the cortical neurons form the bulk of the neural tissue called white matter in the brain. The myelin ...
Neurapraxia
The cause of neurapraxia is a neural lesion which causes a temporary block of nerve conduction without transection of the axon ... A conduction block is classified as a 40% reduction in action potential amplitude over a short distance on the nerve, or a 50% ... potential conduction block over a segment of a nerve fiber and thus a reduction or loss of function in parts of the neural ... As a result of this pressure, ischemia occurs, a neural lesion results, and the human body naturally responds with edema ...
Scolopidia
Sensory neurons coupled to scolopidia are also of larger diameter, increasing conduction rate. In some moths, honeybees, and ... due to the physical mechanism of activating a neural impulse. ...
Pramocaine
... blocking both initiation and conduction of nerve impulses. Depolarization and repolarization of excitable neural membranes is ...
Quantitative models of the action potential
Biological neuron models GHK current equation Models of neural computation Saltatory conduction Bioelectronics Cable theory ... Exploring Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral NEural SImulation System. New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 29-49. Armstrong CM ... Both types of models may be used to understand the behavior of small biological neural networks, such as the central pattern ... Getting PA (1989). "Reconstruction of Small Neural Networks". In C Koch and I Segev (ed.). Methods in Neuronal Modeling: From ...
Efferent nerve fiber
The opposite direction of neural activity is afferent conduction, which carries impulses by way of the afferent nerve fibers of ...
Brain-computer interface
In 2006 Sony patented a neural interface system allowing radio waves to affect signals in the neural cortex. In 2007 NeuroSky ... Hodgkin AL, Huxley AF (August 1952). "A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and ... Researchers have built devices to interface with neural cells and entire neural networks in cultures outside animals. As well ... Neural dust is a term used to refer to millimeter-sized devices operated as wirelessly powered nerve sensors that were proposed ...
Musculocutaneous nerve
... test shows slight neural damage at the biceps and the brachialis muscles with slower motor and sensory conduction over the ...
Progesterone
... restoring some lost neural signal conduction. Another way progesterone aids in regeneration includes increasing the circulation ... "Progesterone increases circulating endothelial progenitor cells and induces neural regeneration after traumatic brain injury in ...
Guy Cheron
Desmedt JE, Cheron G (1980). "Central somatosensory conduction in man: Neural generators and interpeak latencies of the far- ... The NI is the neural structure responsible of the gaze holding. This discovery demonstrated for the first time the biological ... In 1986, he has discovered, together with E. Godaux, the localization of the oculomotor neural integrator (NI) in the nucleus ... Cheron, G.; Godaux, E. (1 December 1987). "Disabling of the oculomotor neural integrator by kainic acid injections in the ...
Biophysics
Biophysical models are used extensively in the study of electrical conduction in single neurons, as well as neural circuit ... Neuroscience - studying neural networks experimentally (brain slicing) as well as theoretically (computer models), membrane ... Computer science - Neural networks, biomolecular and drug databases. Computational chemistry - molecular dynamics simulation, ...
Epalrestat
It is easily absorbed into the neural tissue and inhibits the enzyme with minimum side effects. It has been demonstrated in ... motor nerve conduction velocity, thresholds of vibratory sensation and autonomic nerve function as compared to a placebo. These ... experiments that there is an improvement in sorbitol levels and Na+/K+ ATPase activity leading to improved nerve conduction ...
Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome
Abnormal nerve conduction as well as analysis of mitochondria from liver, intestines, muscle, and nerve tissue can also be used ... By blocking neural transmission, pain is relieved and gastrointestinal motility increases. Stem cell therapies are currently ... Celiac plexus neurolysis involves interrupting neural transmission from various parts of the gastrointestinal tract. ...
Activation function
Logistic function Rectifier (neural networks) Stability (learning theory) Softmax function Hinkelmann, Knut. "Neural Networks, ... Hodgkin, A. L.; Huxley, A. F. (1952-08-28). "A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction ... "Self-Normalizing Neural Networks". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 30 (2017). arXiv:1706.02515. Bibcode: ... "Sigmoid-Weighted Linear Units for Neural Network Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning". Neural Networks. 107: 3-11 ...
Sensorineural hearing loss
Rinne test, which tests air conduction vs. bone conduction is positive, because both bone and air conduction are reduced ... Neural, or "retrocochlear", hearing loss occurs because of damage to the cochlear nerve (CVIII). This damage may affect the ... I.e. where the neural tuning curve would normally be most sensitive (at the 'tip') (See Figure 5). Where both the OHCs and the ... PTCs are similar to neural tuning curves. They illustrate the level of a masker (dB SPL) tone at threshold, as a function of ...
Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne
The era of modern neurology developed from Duchenne's understanding of neural pathways and his diagnostic innovations including ... deep tissue biopsy, nerve conduction tests (NCS), and clinical photography. This extraordinary range of activities (mostly in ...
Neuron
The conduction of nerve impulses is an example of an all-or-none response. In other words, if a neuron responds at all, then it ... Neural coding is concerned with how sensory and other information is represented in the brain by neurons. The main goal of ... When myelin degrades, conduction of signals along the nerve can be impaired or lost, and the nerve eventually withers. This ... When multiple neurons are connected together, they form what is called a neural circuit. A typical neuron consists of a cell ...
Metastability in the brain
Edelman, Gerald (1987). Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. New York, New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0- ... which implies that they operate faster than synaptic conduction would allow; and that their recognizable patterns are sometimes ... Cellular Neural Networks and Their Applications. pp. 127-136. doi:10.1109/cnna.1994.381695. ISBN 978-0-7803-2070-3. S2CID ... This work is aimed at understanding how human social interaction is mediated by metastability of neural networks. fMRI and EEG ...
Solar water heating
Conduction, convection and radiation all occur more rapidly over large thermal gradients[26] (the delta-t effect). ... M. Souliotis; S. Kalogirou; Y. Tripanagnostopoulos (2009). "Modelling of an ICS solar water heater using artificial neural ... Any hot object ultimately returns to thermal equilibrium with its environment, due to heat loss from conduction, convection and ...
Itch
Although experimentally induced itch can still be perceived under a complete A-fiber conduction block, it is significantly ... Neurogenic itch, which is itch induced centrally but with no neural damage, is mostly associated with increased accumulation of ... Andrew D, Craig AD (January 2001). "Spinothalamic lamina I neurons selectively sensitive to histamine: a central neural pathway ...
Tip of the tongue
However, the Broca's conduction and AD groups did not differ in immediate or delayed naming of famous faces.[38] All of the ... all based on weakened neural connection: the lack of frequent use of a word, the lack of recent use of a word, and aging.[21] ... where neural connections are strengthened when used more.[33] Although older people experience more tip of the tongue states ... and conduction aphasia) were instructed to name famous people. Those with anomic aphasia showed to be superior to the other ...
Computational audiology
More recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been constructed and trained that can replicate human auditory ... Stenfelt, Stefan (2016-10-01). "Model predictions for bone conduction perception in the human". Hearing Research. MEMRO 2015 - ... Although inspired by the interconnectivity of biological neural networks, the architecture of CNNs is distinct from the ... Baby, Deepak; Van Den Broucke, Arthur; Verhulst, Sarah (February 2021). "A convolutional neural-network model of human cochlear ...
Cryoneurolysis
... , also referred to as cryoanalgesia, is a medical procedure that temporarily blocks nerve conduction along ... Hsu (2013). "Reduction in muscular motility by selective focused cold therapy". Journal of Neural Transmission. 121 (1): 15-20 ...
Spacetime
Even if there is no bulk motion, energy may be transmitted by heat conduction, and the conducted energy will carry momentum. T ... and 2D networks may be sufficient for complex neural networks. Basic introduction to the mathematics of curved spacetime ...
Infrared
2013: On 14 February, researchers developed a neural implant that gives rats the ability to sense infrared light, which for the ... Unlike heat transmitted by thermal conduction or thermal convection, thermal radiation can propagate through a vacuum. Thermal ...
Peripheral neuropathy
Diagnostic tests include electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction studies (NCSs), which assess large myelinated nerve fibers ... Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 34 (11): 1038-1049. doi:10.1177/1545968320962498. PMID 33040678. S2CID 222300017. ... In EMG testing, demyelinating neuropathy characteristically shows a reduction in conduction velocity and prolongation of distal ... nerve conduction study) test and the classification is applied upon completion of the exam. Mononeuropathy is a type of ...
Teres minor muscle
Extracellular edema after traumatic events causing neural damage show an increased signal intensity on T2-weighted MRI ... Additional electromyography is helpful to reveal any decelerated nerve conduction velocity, and thus denervation of the ...
Mathematical psychology
Independently, physicist Hermann von Helmholtz measured reaction times to determine nerve conduction speed, developed resonance ... as well as connectionist systems or neural networks.[citation needed] Important mathematical expressions for relations between ... power law Weber-Fechner law Signal detection theory Accumulator models Diffusion models Neural network/connectionist models ...
Potential applications of graphene
The larger grain sizes improve heat conduction. The heat conduction improvement was more pronounced in thinner copper films, ... October 20, 2014). "Graphene-based carbon-layered electrode array technology for neural imaging and optogenetic applications". ... This is because of enhanced in-plane heat conduction resulting from the simultaneous increase of thermal resistance between the ... Recently, Paul and co-workers at IISER Bhopal demonstrated solid state proton conduction for oxygen functionalized few-layer ...
MicroRNA
Neural miRNAs are involved at various stages of synaptic development, including dendritogenesis (involving miR-132, miR-134 and ... cardiac conduction, and cell cycle in mice lacking miRNA-1-2". Cell. 129 (2): 303-17. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2007.03.030. PMID ... Journal of Neural Transmission. 122 (1): 79-97. doi:10.1007/s00702-014-1338-4. PMID 25395183. S2CID 25088900. Feng J, Sun G, ... regulation of many downstream genes deems significant regarding the reorganization or synaptic connections or long term neural ...
Environmental scanning electron microscope
The photon conduction is also optimized by the geometry of the light pipes, whilst the pair of symmetrical detectors allow the ... "Neural network for nanoscience scanning electron microscope image recognition". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 13282. Bibcode: ... and allows image recognition and image processing by machine learning based on neural network. Some representative applications ...
Feeling
Wasserman T, Wasserman L (2020). "Motivation: State, Trait, or Both". Motivation, Effort, and the Neural Network Model. pp. 93- ... "The Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous System and Its Role in Cardiac Pacemaking and Conduction". Journal of Cardiovascular Development ...
Congenital heart defect
After this happens, cells that have migrated from the neural crest begin to divide the bulbus cordis, the main outflow tract is ... in the electrical conduction of the heart and TBX5 is related to the Holt-Oram syndrome which includes electrical conduction ... the neural crest, which is the source of a variety of cells found throughout the body. On day 19 of development, a pair of ...
Outline of the human brain
A neural network can be separated in three types of neural maps (also called "layers), i.e. 1. input maps (in the case of ... Damage to this pathway can cause a form of aphasia known as conduction aphasia, where auditory comprehension and speech ... The neural processes of music memory retrieval share much with the neural processes of verbal memory retrieval, as indicated by ... Neural network, Artificial neural network, Artificial intelligence Strong AI - artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds ...
Pallesthesia
The sensory conduction pathway that allows for cognitive recognition of vibration occurs through afferent neurons, also known ... A benefit of pallesthesia testing is that it can be used to identify disorders within the neural pathways. Because there are ... Deterioration of the myelin sheath drastically reduces the conduction speed of neurons, thus affecting sensation and motor ... few areas in the neural pathway where the sensation and perception of vibration can be disturbed, this testing enables doctors ...
Critical period
This supports the aforementioned concept of a critical period for proper neural development for vision in the cortex. Studies ... Hartline DK, Colman DR (January 2007). "Rapid conduction and the evolution of giant axons and myelinated fibers". Current ... Studies have found that during critical periods in the visual cortex, neural synapses become the target of microglial ... Hebbian theory provides insight on the importance of inhibition within neural networks: without inhibition, there would be more ...
List of OMIM disorder codes
ASIP Slowed nerve conduction velocity, AD; 608236; ARHGEF10 Small patella syndrome; 147891; TBX4 SMED, Strudwick type; 184250; ... AMN Melanoma and neural system tumor syndrome; 155755; CDKN2A Melanoma; 609048; CDK4 Melanoma, cutaneous malignant, 2; 155601; ... SPINK5 Neural tube defect; 182940; VANGL1 Neuroblastoma; 256700; NME1 Neurodegeneration due to cerebral folate transport ... ANK2 Cardiac conduction defect, nonspecific; 612838; SCN1B Cardioencephalomyopathy, fatal infantile, due to cytochrome c ...
Nonsynaptic plasticity
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2016. Grasselli G, Boele HJ, Titley HK, Bradford N, van Beers L, Jay L, et ... nonsynaptic plasticity can be observed when an action potential fails to reach the presynaptic terminal due to low conduction ... "Optimal neural inference of stimulus intensities." Scientific reports, 8:1, 2018. T. Monk, C. Savin, and J. Lucke. Neurons ... Leslie JH, Nedivi E (August 2011). "Activity-regulated genes as mediators of neural circuit plasticity" (PDF). Progress in ...
Ion channel
Brown DA, Passmore GM (April 2009). "Neural KCNQ (Kv7) channels". British Journal of Pharmacology. 156 (8): 1185-95. doi: ... April 1998). "The structure of the potassium channel: molecular basis of K+ conduction and selectivity". Science. 280 (5360): ... Because channels underlie the nerve impulse and because "transmitter-activated" channels mediate conduction across the synapses ...
Disconnection syndrome
In 1874, Carl Wernicke introduced this concept in his dissertation when he suggested that conduction aphasia could result from ... "Visualizing the neural bases of a disconnection syndrome with diffusion tensor imaging". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 14 ... Other types of disconnection syndrome include conduction aphasia (lesion of the association tract connecting Broca's area and ...
Treacher Collins syndrome
Haploinsufficiency of the treacle protein leads to a depletion of the neural crest cell precursor, which leads to a reduced ... Auditory rehabilitation with bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHAs) or a conventional bone conduction aid has proven preferable to ... Hearing loss is treated by bone conduction amplification, speech therapy, and educational intervention to avoid language/speech ...
Superior cluneal nerves
Currently, there is no consistent protocol for testing the superior cluneal nerves with a nerve conduction study. Diagnosis of ... Technology at the Neural Interface. 19 (1): 91-100. doi:10.1111/ner.12381. PMID 26799373. S2CID 23413856. Maigne, Jean-Yves; ... Electrodiagnostic studies, including electromyography and nerve conduction studies, can also help rule out other pathologies. ...
Surface chemistry of neural implants
... which increases the signal conduction. In one paper, polypyrrole (PPy) was doped with polystyrene sulfonate (PSS) to ... 2010). "Seeding neural progenitor cells on silicon-based neural probes". Journal of Neurosurgery. 113 (3): 673-681. doi:10.3171 ... 2011). "PEDOT polymer coatings facilitate smaller neural recording electrodes". Journal of Neural Engineering. 8 (1): 014001. ... "Surface immobilization of neural adhesion molecule L1 for improving the biocompatibility of chronic neural probes: In vitro ...
Index of anatomy articles
... fascicle nervi erigentes nervous system neural crest cell neural foramen neural groove neural tube defect neural tube neural ... Edinger-Westphal nucleus efferent ducts efferent nerve fiber efferent limb ejaculatory duct elbow electrical conduction system ...