Somatosensory Cortex

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comprehensive model-based framework for optimal design of biomimetic patterns of electrical stimulation for prosthetic sensation. 
  • A disinhibitory circuit mediates motor integration in the somatosensory cortex. 
  • A key role for stimulus-specific updating of the sensory cortices in the learning of stimulus-reward associations. 
  • A multi-channel whisker stimulator for producing spatiotemporally complex tactile stimuli. 
  • Active tactile exploration influences the functional maturation of the somatosensory system. 
  • Active tactile exploration using a brain-machine-brain interface. 
  • Adaptive decoding for brain-machine interfaces through Bayesian parameter updates. 
  • Barrels VI: proceedings of a satellite symposium of the 1993 Society for Neuroscience meeting. 
  • Behavioral modulation of tactile responses in the rat somatosensory system. 
  • Behavioral properties of the trigeminal somatosensory system in rats performing whisker-dependent tactile discriminations. 
  • Beyond maps: a dynamic view of the somatosensory system. 
  • Bilateral integration of whisker information in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats. 
  • Categories of cortical structure. 
  • Changes in S1 neural responses during tactile discrimination learning. 
  • Characterizing the short-latency evoked response to intracortical microstimulation across a multi-electrode array. 
  • Cholecystokinin action on layer 6b neurons in somatosensory cortex. 
  • Correlation of intrinsic optical signal, cerebral blood flow, and evoked potentials during activation of rat somatosensory cortex. 
  • Cortical Neuroprosthesis Merges Visible and Invisible Light Without Impairing Native Sensory Function. 
  • Cortical and thalamic contributions to response dynamics across layers of the primary somatosensory cortex during tactile discrimination. 
  • Cortical modulations increase in early sessions with brain-machine interface. 
  • Cortical neurons multiplex reward-related signals along with sensory and motor information. 
  • Cortical processing of tactile stimuli applied in quick succession across the fingertips: temporal evolution of dipole sources revealed by magnetoencephalography. 
  • Creating a neuroprosthesis for active tactile exploration of textures. 
  • Decoding Movements from Cortical Ensemble Activity Using a Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Network. 
  • Development of direct GABAergic projections from the zona incerta to the somatosensory cortex of the rat. 
  • Differential effects of haloperidol and clozapine on motor recovery after sensorimotor cortex injury in rats. 
  • Differential functional roles of slow-wave and oscillatory-α activity in visual sensory cortex during anticipatory visual-spatial attention. 
  • Differential metabolic and electrical activity in the somatic sensory cortex of juvenile and adult rats. 
  • Dynamic and multimodal responses of gustatory cortical neurons in awake rats. 
  • Effects of dorsal noradrenergic bundle lesions on recovery after sensorimotor cortex injury. 
  • Effects of increased neural activity on brain growth. 
  • Embedding a Panoramic Representation of Infrared Light in the Adult Rat Somatosensory Cortex through a Sensory Neuroprosthesis. 
  • Encoding of tactile stimulus location by somatosensory thalamocortical ensembles. 
  • Expression of the apolipoprotein E gene does not affect motor recovery after sensorimotor cortex injury in the mouse. 
  • Feature article: the structure and function of dynamic cortical and thalamic receptive fields. 
  • Fluorescence imaging of changes in intracellular chloride in living brain slices. 
  • Forelimb amputation-induced reorganization in the cuneate nucleus (CN) is not reflected in large-scale reorganization in rat forepaw barrel subfield cortex (FBS). 
  • Frequency-specific coupling in fronto-parieto-occipital cortical circuits underlie active tactile discrimination. 
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation: effects of motor imagery, movement and coil orientation. 
  • Global forebrain dynamics predict rat behavioral states and their transitions. 
  • Growth of the rat somatic sensory cortex and its constituent parts during postnatal development. 
  • Gustatory processing is dynamic and distributed. 
  • Heterogeneous integration of bilateral whisker signals by neurons in primary somatosensory cortex of awake rats. 
  • Immediate and simultaneous sensory reorganization at cortical and subcortical levels of the somatosensory system. 
  • Immediate thalamic sensory plasticity depends on corticothalamic feedback. 
  • Increased brain gray matter in the primary somatosensory cortex is associated with increased pain and mood disturbance in patients with interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome. 
  • Individual variation and lateral asymmetry of the rat primary somatosensory cortex. 
  • Influence of lesion size and location on amphetamine-facilitated recovery of beam-walking in rats. 
  • Inhibition stabilization is a widespread property of cortical networks. 
  • Integrated externally and internally generated task predictions jointly guide cognitive control in prefrontal cortex. 
  • Integration of bilateral whisker stimuli in rats: role of the whisker barrel cortices. 
  • It's about time for thalamocortical circuits. 
  • Joint cross-correlation analysis reveals complex, time-dependent functional relationship between cortical neurons and arm electromyograms. 
  • Layer-specific somatosensory cortical activation during active tactile discrimination. 
  • Learned self-regulation of EEG frequency components affects attention and event-related brain potentials in humans. 
  • Learning to control a brain-machine interface for reaching and grasping by primates. 
  • Low- and High-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Effects on Resting-State Functional Connectivity Between the Postcentral Gyrus and the Insula. 
  • Model of recovery of locomotor ability after sensorimotor cortex injury in rats. 
  • Mouse Cntnap2 and Human CNTNAP2 ASD Alleles Cell Autonomously Regulate PV+ Cortical Interneurons. 
  • Multifaceted Changes in Synaptic Composition and Astrocytic Involvement in a Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome. 
  • Neonatal whisker removal in rats stabilizes a transient projection from the auditory thalamus to the primary somatosensory cortex. 
  • Network level properties of short-term plasticity in the somatosensory system. 
  • Neural activity and the development of the somatic sensory system. 
  • Neural network mechanisms of oscillatory brain states: characterization using simultaneous multi-single neuron recordings. 
  • Neuronal activity in the primary somatosensory thalamocortical loop is modulated by reward contingency during tactile discrimination. 
  • Neurophysiology: electrically evoking sensory experience. 
  • New modules are added to vibrissal premotor circuitry with the emergence of exploratory whisking. 
  • Noninvasive photoacoustic computed tomography of mouse brain metabolism in vivo. 
  • Ontogeny of corticocortical projections of the rat somatosensory cortex. 
  • Perceiving invisible light through a somatosensory cortical prosthesis. 
  • Photoacoustic microscopy of microvascular responses to cortical electrical stimulation. 
  • Place Cell-Like Activity in the Primary Sensorimotor and Premotor Cortex During Monkey Whole-Body Navigation. 
  • Post-lesion administration of the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 does not impair motor recovery after unilateral sensorimotor cortex injury in the rat. 
  • Postsynaptic mechanisms govern the differential excitation of cortical neurons by thalamic inputs. 
  • Prenatal exposure to toluene results in abnormal neurogenesis and migration in rat somatosensory cortex. 
  • Prenatal nicotine exposure evokes alterations of cell structure in hippocampus and somatosensory cortex. 
  • Primate reaching cued by multichannel spatiotemporal cortical microstimulation. 
  • Rapid reliable measurement of lesion parameters for studies of motor recovery after sensorimotor cortex injury in the rat. 
  • Response reliability observed with voltage-sensitive dye imaging of cortical layer 2/3: the probability of activation hypothesis. 
  • Right vs. left sensorimotor cortex suction-ablation in the rat: no difference in beam-walking recovery. 
  • Role of cortical feedback in the receptive field structure and nonlinear response properties of somatosensory thalamic neurons. 
  • Saccades to somatosensory targets. I. behavioral characteristics. 
  • Saccades to somatosensory targets. II. motor convergence in primate superior colliculus. 
  • Saccades to somatosensory targets. III. eye-position-dependent somatosensory activity in primate superior colliculus. 
  • Seeking the neural code. 
  • Sensorimotor encoding by synchronous neural ensemble activity at multiple levels of the somatosensory system. 
  • Sensory percepts induced by microwire array and DBS microstimulation in human sensory thalamus. 
  • Simultaneous encoding of tactile information by three primate cortical areas. 
  • Simultaneous reorganization in thalamocortical ensembles evolves over several hours after perioral capsaicin injections. 
  • Simultaneous top-down modulation of the primary somatosensory cortex and thalamic nuclei during active tactile discrimination. 
  • Somatosensory Representations Link the Perception of Emotional Expressions and Sensory Experience. 
  • Somatosensory cortical signature of facial nociception and vibrotactile touch-induced analgesia. 
  • Somatotopic maps within the zona incerta relay parallel GABAergic somatosensory pathways to the neocortex, superior colliculus, and brainstem. 
  • Spatiotemporal properties of layer V neurons of the rat primary somatosensory cortex. 
  • Stoney vs. Histed: Quantifying the spatial effects of intracortical microstimulation. 
  • Structure of the human sensorimotor system. I: Morphology and cytoarchitecture of the central sulcus. 
  • Structure of the human sensorimotor system. II: Lateral symmetry. 
  • Supralinear increase of recurrent inhibition during sparse activity in the somatosensory cortex. 
  • Surface visualization of electromagnetic brain activity. 
  • Temporal summation of second pain: variability in responses to a fixed protocol. 
  • Tenascin knockout mice: barrels, boundary molecules, and glial scars. 
  • Terbutaline is a developmental neurotoxicant: effects on neuroproteins and morphology in cerebellum, hippocampus, and somatosensory cortex. 
  • Thalamocortical [correction of Thalamcortical] optimization of tactile processing according to behavioral state. 
  • Thalamocortical and corticocortical interactions in the somatosensory system. 
  • The brain decade in debate: VI. Sensory and motor maps: dynamics and plasticity. 
  • The feeling of looking. 
  • Traumatic brain injury-induced neuronal damage in the somatosensory cortex causes formation of rod-shaped microglia that promote astrogliosis and persistent neuroinflammation. 
  • Two multichannel integrated circuits for neural recording and signal processing. 
  • Unique functional properties of somatostatin-expressing GABAergic neurons in mouse barrel cortex. 
  • Validating the efficacy of neurofeedback for optimising performance. 
  • Virtual active touch using randomly patterned intracortical microstimulation. 
  • fMRI activation mapping as a percentage of local excitation: consistent presurgical motor maps without threshold adjustment. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Henriquez, Craig S., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • Nicolelis, Miguel Angelo L., Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology, Neurobiology