Manfridi, Alfredo, Dario Brambilla, and Mauro Mancia. Stimulation of NMDA and AMPA receptors in the rat nucleus basalis of Meynert affects sleep. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1488–R1492, 1999.—The nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM), a heterogeneous area in the basal forebrain involved in the modulation of sleep and wakefulness, is rich in glutamate receptors, a...

The binding problem refers to the fundamental challenge of the central nervous system to integrate sensory information registered by multiple brain regions to form a unified neural representation of a stimulus. Although the human cognitive literature has yielded substantial insights into the attention-dependent nature and general cortical networks involved in feature binding, the specific downs...

The basal forebrain complex, which includes the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM), provides widespread cholinergic and g-aminobutyric acid-containing projections throughout the brain, including the insular and pyriform cortices. A number of studies have implicated the cholinergic neurons in the mediation of learning and memory processes. However, the role of basal forebrain activity in info...

Este estudo teve o propósito de avaliar a influência do estresse hídrico provocado em experimento seca longa duração na floresta (ESECAFLOR) e da conversão área agrícola, sobre os atributos microbiológicos solo Floresta Nacional Caxiuanã. Foram escolhidas quatro áreas, sendo duas floresta: controle (Parcela A) exclusão água chuva B); mais duas: secundária (FS) Roça. Avaliaram-se umidade gravimé...

Background: It is well established that nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NbM) lesions impair performance on tests of sustained attention. Previous work from this laboratory has also demonstrated that pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) lesioned rats make more omissions on a test of sustained attention, suggesting that it might also play a role in mediating this function. However, the resu...

In the present study, the effect of NBM lesion on the temporal characteristics of response integration evoked by multiple whisker stimulations in the barrel cortex of rats was studied. Nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) projects to widespread areas of the cortex and provides the major cholinergic input (80%) to the cerebral cortex. In this study we examined the effects of NBM lesion on the respon...