Neuronal Replacement as a Tool for Basal Ganglia Circuitry Repair: 40 Years in Perspective

NeuronBank: A Tool for Cataloging Neuronal Circuitry

The basic unit of any nervous system is the neuron. Therefore, understanding the operation of nervous systems ultimately requires an inventory of their constituent neurons and synaptic connectivity, which form neural circuits. The presence of uniquely identifiable neurons or classes of neurons in many invertebrates has facilitated the construction of cellular-level connectivity diagrams that ca...

Basal Ganglia Circuitry and Synaptic Connectivity 1. OVERALL ORGANIZATION OF THE BASAL GANGLIA

Role of Basal Ganglia in Swallowing Process: A Systematic Review

Objectives: The basal ganglia (BG) controls different patterns of behavior by receiving inputs from sensory-motor and pre-motor cortex and projecting it to pre-frontal, pre-motor and supplementary motor areas. As the exact role of BG in swallowing process has not been fully determined, we aimed at reviewing the published data on neurological control in the swallowing technique to have a better ...

Altered functional connectivity of basal ganglia circuitry in dental phobia.

Recent symptom provocation studies that compared patients suffering from dental phobia with healthy controls identified hyperactivation of basal ganglia structures, but none have assessed striatal functional connectivity. We reanalyzed data from a previous functional magnetic resonance imaging study on dental phobia. Patients (20 men, 25 women) and healthy controls (18 men, 23 women) had been e...

Neuronal Dynamics and the Basal Ganglia

Oscillations and other rhythmic patterns of neuronal activity arise throughout the central nervous system. Such oscillations have been implicated in the generation of sleep rhythms, epilepsy, parkinsonian tremor, sensory processing, and learning. Oscillatory behavior also arises in such physiological processes as respiration, movement, and secretion. Researchers have made tremendous efforts to ...