Vibrissae
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Subject Areas on Research
- A disinhibitory circuit mediates motor integration in the somatosensory cortex.
- A multi-channel whisker stimulator for producing spatiotemporally complex tactile stimuli.
- Active tactile exploration influences the functional maturation of the somatosensory system.
- Analyzing somatosensory axon projections with the sensory neuron-specific Advillin gene.
- Barrels VI: proceedings of a satellite symposium of the 1993 Society for Neuroscience meeting.
- Basal forebrain dynamics during a tactile discrimination task.
- Behavioral detection of tactile stimuli during 7-12 Hz cortical oscillations in awake rats.
- Behavioral modulation of tactile responses in the rat somatosensory system.
- Behavioral properties of the trigeminal somatosensory system in rats performing whisker-dependent tactile discriminations.
- Bilateral integration of whisker information in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats.
- Changes in S1 neural responses during tactile discrimination learning.
- Circuits in the rodent brainstem that control whisking in concert with other orofacial motor actions.
- Constructing an adult orofacial premotor atlas in Allen mouse CCF.
- Cortical Neuroprosthesis Merges Visible and Invisible Light Without Impairing Native Sensory Function.
- Differential metabolic and electrical activity in the somatic sensory cortex of juvenile and adult rats.
- Dynamic and distributed properties of many-neuron ensembles in the ventral posterior medial thalamus of awake rats.
- Effects of daily dermal application of DEET and epermethrin, alone and in combination, on sensorimotor performance, blood-brain barrier, and blood-testis barrier in rats.
- 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 TGF-beta-related genes during mouse embryo whisker morphogenesis.
- Feedback in the brainstem: an excitatory disynaptic pathway for control of whisking.
- Growth of the rat somatic sensory cortex and its constituent parts during postnatal development.
- Heterogeneous integration of bilateral whisker signals by neurons in primary somatosensory cortex of awake rats.
- Immediate thalamic sensory plasticity depends on corticothalamic feedback.
- Individual variation and lateral asymmetry of the rat primary somatosensory cortex.
- Inhibition, Not Excitation, Drives Rhythmic Whisking.
- Integration of bilateral whisker stimuli in rats: role of the whisker barrel cortices.
- Layer-specific somatosensory cortical activation during active tactile discrimination.
- More than a rhythm of life: breathing as a binder of orofacial sensation.
- Neonatal whisker removal in rats stabilizes a transient projection from the auditory thalamus to the primary somatosensory cortex.
- Neonatal whisker removal reduces the discrimination of tactile stimuli by thalamic ensembles in adult rats.
- Network level properties of short-term plasticity in the somatosensory system.
- Neural network mechanisms of oscillatory brain states: characterization using simultaneous multi-single neuron recordings.
- New modules are added to vibrissal premotor circuitry with the emergence of exploratory whisking.
- Nonlinear processing of tactile information in the thalamocortical loop.
- Organogenesis and pattern formation in the mouse: RNA distribution patterns suggest a role for bone morphogenetic protein-2A (BMP-2A).
- Parallel Inhibitory and Excitatory Trigemino-Facial Feedback Circuitry for Reflexive Vibrissa Movement.
- Perceiving invisible light through a somatosensory cortical prosthesis.
- Principal component analysis of neuronal ensemble activity reveals multidimensional somatosensory representations.
- Proper formation of whisker barrelettes requires periphery-derived Smad4-dependent TGF-beta signaling.
- Response reliability observed with voltage-sensitive dye imaging of cortical layer 2/3: the probability of activation hypothesis.
- Role of cortical feedback in the receptive field structure and nonlinear response properties of somatosensory thalamic neurons.
- Seeking the neural code.
- Sensorimotor encoding by synchronous neural ensemble activity at multiple levels of the somatosensory system.
- Simultaneous reorganization in thalamocortical ensembles evolves over several hours after perioral capsaicin injections.
- Spatiotemporal properties of layer V neurons of the rat primary somatosensory cortex.
- Spatiotemporal structure of somatosensory responses of many-neuron ensembles in the rat ventral posterior medial nucleus of the thalamus.
- TRPV4 is necessary for trigeminal irritant pain and functions as a cellular formalin receptor.
- Tapered Polymer Whiskers to Enable Three-Dimensional Tactile Feature Extraction.
- Tenascin knockout mice: barrels, boundary molecules, and glial scars.
- Thalamic plasticity induced by early whisker removal in rats.
- Thalamocortical and corticocortical interactions in the somatosensory system.
- The Brainstem Oscillator for Whisking and the Case for Breathing as the Master Clock for Orofacial Motor Actions.
- The TGF-beta-related DVR gene family in mammalian development.
- The organization of submodality-specific touch afferent inputs in the vibrissa column.
- The whisking oscillator circuit.
- Theory of hierarchically organized neuronal oscillator dynamics that mediate rodent rhythmic whisking.
- Ultrasonic disruption of the blood-brain barrier enables in vivo functional mapping of the mouse barrel field cortex with manganese-enhanced MRI.
- Unique functional properties of somatostatin-expressing GABAergic neurons in mouse barrel cortex.
- Uranyl acetate-induced sensorimotor deficit and increased nitric oxide generation in the central nervous system in rats.
- Vibrissa sensory neurons: Linking distinct morphology to specific physiology and function.
- Visualizing mechanosensory endings of TrkC-expressing neurons in HS3ST-2-hPLAP mice.
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Keywords of People
- Erickson, Harold Paul, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Cell Biology
- Hogan, Brigid L. M., Research Professor of Cell Biology, Cell Biology
- Nicolelis, Miguel Angelo L., Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Neurobiology