Potassium channels have been implicated in central roles in activity-dependent neural plasticity. The giant fiber escape pathway of Drosophila has been established as a model for analyzing habituation and its modification by memory mutations in an identified circuit. Several genes in Drosophila encoding K+ channel subunits have been characterized, permitting examination of the contributions of ...

This series of studies explores the early development of visuo-spatial human body knowledge in infancy. To achieve this, infants’ responses to typical and scrambled human body shapes were tested. As reviewed above, previous work showed that in a preferential looking paradigm, only 18month-olds appeared to discriminate scrambled from typical human body shapes. This pattern is inconclusive, howev...

Background: Motion sickness is a common problem experienced by much the population. Clinical treatments at this time are primarily pharmacological. Currently it is known that multiple exposures to motion sickness triggers can, over time, result in habituation and the patient can become free of symptoms. This repeated recurrence of sickness is not desirable or practical to daily living. Limited ...

The PAM/Highwire/RPM-1 (PHR) proteins are signaling hubs that function as important regulators of neural development. Loss of function in Caenorhabditis elegans rpm-1 and Drosophila Highwire results in failed axon termination, inappropriate axon targeting, and abnormal synapse formation. Despite broad expression in the nervous system and relatively dramatic defects in synapse formation and axon...

The zebrafish's potential as a model for human neurobehavioral research appears nearly limitless despite its relatively recent emergence as an experimental organism. Since the zebrafish has only been part of the research community for a handful of decades, pathogens from its commercial origins continue to plague laboratory stocks. One such pathogen is Pseudoloma neurophilia, a common microparas...

At SOUPS 2013, Bravo-Lillo et al. presented an artificial experiment in which they habituated participants to the contents of a pop-up dialog by asking them to respond to it repeatedly, and then measured participants’ ability to notice when a text field within the dialog changed. The experimental treatments included various attractors: interface elements designed to draw or force users’ attenti...

The study aims to describe the correlation between teacher performance, patterns of caring and parenting habituation with children discipline. method used was descriptive quantitative correlational research study. samples were 144 people from 9 (nine) kindergartens taking Proportionate Random Sampling technique for sampling a population 225 at in Kandangan Subdistrict Hulu Sungai Selatan. data ...

The objective of the present study was to investigate cortical differences between chronic low back pain (CLBP) subjects and pain-free controls with respect to habituation and processing of stimulus intensity. The use of a novel event-related fixed-interval areas (ERFIA) multilevel technique enables the analysis of event-related electroencephalogram (EEG) of the whole post stimulus range at a s...

Migraineurs are characterized interictally by lack of habituation, or even potentiation, of cortical evoked potentials during repetitive stimulation and by a strong intensity dependence of auditory evoked potentials (IDAP). To determine whether these two features of sensory processing are interrelated, we have studied them simultaneously on the same recordings of auditory evoked potentials (AEP...