Sensory Thresholds

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A parametric analysis of the effects of cardiopulmonary vagal electrostimulation on the digastric reflex in cats. 
  • Anatomical variability predicts individual differences in transcranial electric stimulation motor threshold. 
  • Anxiolytic effects of smoking associated with four stressors. 
  • Behavioral and psychological approaches to the assessment and treatment of chronic pain. 
  • Behavioural and physiological limits to vision in mammals. 
  • Brightness of luminance distributions with gradual changes. 
  • Chronic nicotine interactions with clozapine and risperidone and attentional function in rats. 
  • Chronic pain assessment using heat beam dolorimetry. 
  • Clinical outcomes for patients classified by fear-avoidance beliefs and centralization phenomenon. 
  • Comparison of macular versus paramacular retinal sensitivity to femtosecond laser pulses. 
  • Contrast amplification in global texture orientation discrimination. 
  • Correlation Between Macular Integrity Assessment and Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of Ellipsoid Zone in Macular Telangiectasia Type 2. 
  • Diabetes mellitus, independent of body mass index, is associated with a "higher success" rate for supraclavicular brachial plexus blocks. 
  • Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of dark adaptometry for detection of age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Differential neurophysiological effects of magnetic seizure therapy (MST) and electroconvulsive shock (ECS) in non-human primates. 
  • Effects of visual noise on binocular summation in patients with strabismus without amblyopia. 
  • Electrophysiological correlates of lateral interactions in human visual cortex. 
  • Electroretinographic abnormalities in parents of patients with Leber congenital amaurosis who have heterozygous GUCY2D mutations. 
  • Elevated motor threshold in drug-free, cocaine-dependent patients assessed with transcranial magnetic stimulation. 
  • Enhanced affective aggression in genetically bred hypercholinergic rats. 
  • Essentials of Our Current Understanding: Abdominal Wall Blocks. 
  • Evidence for impaired cortical inhibition in patients with unipolar major depression. 
  • Excitation of a cardiac muscle fiber by extracellularly applied sinusoidal current. 
  • Expectancy in humans in multisecond peak-interval timing with gaps. 
  • Extraocular sensitivity to polarized light in an echinoderm. 
  • Functional implications of On-Off response variation in frog retinal ganglion cells. 
  • Genetic elucidation of human hyperosmia to isovaleric acid. 
  • Genetic variation in the odorant receptor OR2J3 is associated with the ability to detect the "grassy" smelling odor, cis-3-hexen-1-ol. 
  • Hidden complexity of synaptic receptive fields in cat V1. 
  • Individual Differences in Scotopic Visual Acuity and Contrast Sensitivity: Genetic and Non-Genetic Influences. 
  • Interactions between cardiovascular and pain regulatory systems. 
  • Lack of delayed neurotoxic effect after tri-o-cresyl phosphate treatment in male Fischer 344 rats: biochemical, neurobehavioral, and neuropathological studies. 
  • Linking object boundaries at scale: a common mechanism for size and shape judgments. 
  • Long-term vascular, motor, and sensory donor site outcomes after ulnar forearm flap harvest. 
  • Mechanisms of pain perception in patients with silent myocardial ischemia. 
  • Memory for timing visual and auditory signals in albino and pigmented rats. 
  • Modeling the effects of electric fields on nerve fibers: determination of excitation thresholds. 
  • Multiple pudendal sensory pathways reflexly modulate bladder and urethral activity in patients with spinal cord injury. 
  • Nonlinear signal transfer from mouse rods to bipolar cells and implications for visual sensitivity. 
  • Prenatal dietary choline supplementation decreases the threshold for induction of long-term potentiation in young adult rats. 
  • Reduction of TMD pain by high-frequency vibration: a spatial and temporal analysis. 
  • Reproducibility of visual field end point criteria for standard automated perimetry, full-threshold, and Swedish interactive thresholding algorithm strategies: diagnostic innovations in glaucoma study. 
  • Retinal processing near absolute threshold: from behavior to mechanism. 
  • Scalar timing in memory. 
  • Scaled medial axis representation: evidence from position discrimination task. 
  • Seizure threshold in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) II. The anticonvulsant effect of ECT. 
  • Seizure threshold in electroconvulsive therapy: I. Initial seizure threshold. 
  • Sensory acuity and reasoning in delusional disorder. 
  • Shared sensory estimates for human motion perception and pursuit eye movements. 
  • Signaling by olfactory receptor neurons near threshold. 
  • Sleep disturbance and baroreceptor sensitivity in women with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Spectral coding in cat retinal ganglion cell receptive fields. 
  • Systemic morphine administration attenuates the perceived intensity of noxious heat in the monkey. 
  • Taste and smell losses in HIV infected patients. 
  • The effect of age on plasma zinc uptake and taste acuity. 
  • The effect of age on sciatic nerve block duration. 
  • The effect of stimulus pulse duration on selectivity of neural stimulation. 
  • The operant assessment of taste discrimination. 
  • The relationship between cardiovascular and pain regulatory systems. 
  • Thresholds for visible lesions in the primate eye produced by ultrashort near-infrared laser pulses. 
  • Unirhinal olfactory function in schizophrenia patients and first-degree relatives. 
  • Use of sensory descriptors in assessing chronic pain patients. 
  • Visible retinal lesions from ultrashort laser pulses in the primate eye. 
  • Wide-dynamic-range dorsal horn neurons participate in the encoding process by which monkeys perceive the intensity of noxious heat stimuli. 
  • Widespread somatosensory sensitivity in naturally occurring canine model of osteoarthritis. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology