Visual deficits caused by abnormal visual experience during development are hard to recover in adult animals. Removal of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans from the mature extracellular matrix with chondroitinase ABC promotes plasticity in the adult visual cortex. We tested whether chondroitinase ABC treatment of adult rats facilitates anatomical, functional, and behavioral recovery from the eff...

background sedation is a condition of reduced level of consciousness (loc) for a patient that is created to decrease irritability, anxiety, and restlessness. objectives in this study, we compared the sedative effect of oral administration of ketamine, midazolam, and atropine cocktail with diphenhydramine in the referent children to the emergency department. patients and methods based on the dou...

A violation of trust can have quite different consequences, depending on the nature of the relationship in which the trust breach occurs. In this article, we identify a key relationship characteristic that affects trust recovery: the extent of relationship experience before the trust breach. Across two experiments, this investigation establishes the behavioral effect that greater relationship e...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Basic and translational neuroscience findings indicate that normal brain function depends on activity synchronization within distributed brain networks. This conclusion suggests a view of how brain injury causes behavioral deficits that differs from traditional localizationist views. RECENT FINDINGS Novel functional neuroimaging methods demonstrate coherent activity in large...

Version 1, 18 July 2006 This paper discusses the behavioral modeling of a pattern generator including various types of data jitter for jitter tolerance analysis of high-speed serial link receivers during the design phase. The presented model can be used both during the system-level design exploration and the following transistor-level design phases. First, jitter tolerance of clock recovery cir...

The auditory oddball response has been found to be of predictive value for neurologic outcome at the early stages of coma. In the present study, the auditory oddball response was examined longitudinally during the recovery from the vegetative state to consciousness. This response was repeatedly examined every 2 weeks for an average period of 3.5 months in severely brain-injured patients. Result...

Nowadays peripheral nerve injurie occurs more common, the outcome is often poor because of the ineffective treatment. Recent researches revealed the duration of BDNF administration acts a positive role during the nerve regeneration, but its potential mechanisms beneath the behavioral recovery and axonal regrowth after peripheral nerve injury are still controversial. To observe the potential mec...

Neurogenesis occurs in some regions of the adult mammalian brain and gives rise to neurons integrated into functional networks. In pathological or postlesional conditions, neurogenesis and astrogenesis can also occur, as demonstrated in the deafferented vestibular nuclei after unilateral vestibular neurectomy in the adult cat. Here we report that in cats infused with an antimitotic drug, cytosi...

It has previously been shown that environmental enrichment can enhance structural plasticity in the brain and thereby improve cognitive and behavioral function. In this study, we reared developmentally noise-exposed rats in an acoustic-enriched environment for ∼4 weeks to investigate whether or not enrichment could restore developmentally degraded behavioral and neuronal processing of sound fre...

Friesian bulls were penned with an established group of bulls for 6 h. This mixing procedure normally resulted in an intense behavioral interaction between the established herd and each of the newly introduced experimental animals. Muscle needle biopsy samples and blood samples were taken before stress and at intervals during the recovery period. Stressed bulls showed increases over controls in...