Axons are required to maintain specific discharge rates and patterns, and as a consequence, the ability to conduct an impulse with minimal expenditure of energy will create different needs for different axonal populations. There may be only one role for an axon, and that is to conduct an impulse securely from one end to the other, but it is to be expected that the biophysical properties of sens...

impulse buying is a significant aspect of consumer behavior and a critical concept in the marketplace. dramatic increases in consumption and possibility of credit buying all over the world has provided appropriate situations for impulse buying, however there is little information about impulse buying in eastern and in transition societies and economies. the purpose of this study is to develop a...

During active movements, neural replicas of the underlying motor commands may assist in adapting motion-detecting sensory systems to an animal's own behaviour. The transmission of such motor efference copies to the mechanosensory periphery offers a potential predictive substrate for diminishing sensory responsiveness to self-motion during vertebrate locomotion. Here, using semi-isolated in vitr...

RECORDING TECHNIQUE MUSCLE AFFERENTS Clinically Relevant Insights Sensory Role of Muscle Spindles Fusimotor Function at Rest Fusimotor Function During Voluntary Contractions Fusimotor Function During Contractions of Remote Muscles, Motor Imagery, and Preparation for a Contraction Fusimotor Function in Motor Disorders CUTANEOUS AND JOINT AFFERENTS Large Myelinated Cutaneous Afferents Cutaneous A...

Recently, much attention has been paid to not only motor symptoms but also Non-Motor Symptoms (NMS) of Parkinson’s disease [1]. NMS include sleep disorders, autonomic nervous system dysfunction, sensory impairment, and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Neuropsychiatric symptoms include depression, apathy, anxiety, anhedonia, attention deficit, hallucinations, confusion, Impulse Control Disorders (ICD)...

White noise techniques have been used widely to investigate sensory systems in both vertebrates and invertebrates. White noise stimuli are powerful in their ability to rapidly generate data that help the experimenter decipher the spatio-temporal dynamics of neural and behavioral responses. One type of white noise stimuli, maximal length shift register sequences (m-sequences), have recently beco...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a highly diffusible signalling molecule with widespread effects on the integrative electrical properties of a variety of neuronal and muscle cells. We have explored the effects of NO on the cardiac-like impulse generated by skin cells of the hatchling Xenopus tadpole. Skin cell impulses propagate from cell to cell via gap junctions and form an unusual sensory system, which ...

Pain associated with herpes zoster arise from the virul neuritis of the suffered trigeminal or spinal dorsal ganglion. Prolonged neuritis makes an irreversible nerve injury and continuous pain impulse develops a central sensitization. A post-herpetic neuralgia is thought to be a neuropathic pain due to the irreversible nerve injury and sensitization. It is important to treat herpetic pain compl...

The Impulse research project at the MIT Media Lab, which captures our vision of the future of commerce, attempts to augment the rich sensory experience of the tangible world with the informational abundance, speed, and low search costs of the Internet. In this paper we present the design and implementation schema of a subset of the Impulse vision that addresses the problem of location-specific ...