Movements of the upper limb are controlled mostly through the contralateral hemisphere. Although overall activity changes in the ipsilateral motor cortex have been reported, their functional significance remains unclear. Using human functional imaging, we analyzed neural finger representations by studying differences in fine-grained activation patterns for single isometric finger presses. We de...

How do populations of neurons represent a variable of interest? The notion of feature spaces is a useful concept to approach this question: According to this model, the activation patterns across a neuronal population are composed of different pattern components. The strength of each of these components varies with one latent feature, which together are the dimensions along which the population...

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After meeting with health officials on 1 July, US President Barack Obama has called on Congress to back a bill to fund the US response to the Zika virus disease outbreak before it breaks for its seven week summer recess. “We have to get the money from Congress over the next two weeks to make sure that we can begin to develop the effective vaccines, the mosquito abatement tools, the state emerge...

Bertrand Forclaz / Philippe Martin (Hg.), Religion et piété au défi de la guerre Trente Ans, Rennes: Presses universitaires Rennes 2015. 345 S. mit 26 Abb. ISBN 978-2-7535-4077-4. Brosch. € 21,–

Previous research has compared the effects of trunk inclination angle on muscle activation using barbells and Smith machines in men. Whether similar effects occur with the use of dumbbells or in women remains unknown. The purpose was to compare upper extremity surface electromyographical (EMG) activity between dumbbell bench, incline, and shoulder presses. Dominate arm EMG data were recorded fo...

The habit-forming effects of abused drugs depend on the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system innervating the nucleus accumbens (NAcc). To examine whether different NAcc subterritories (core and medial shell) exhibit a differential distribution of neurons showing phasic firing patterns correlated with drug-seeking behavior, rats were trained to self-administer cocaine, and activity of single NAcc n...

Studies have shown that oxygenated compounds and TSS/TA are important for beverage and food industries. It seems that Citrus rootstocks have a profound influence on oxygenated compounds and TSS/TA. The aim of this research is to identify rootstock that can synthesize the maximum level of oxygenated compounds and TSS/TA. Peel oil was extracted using mechanical presses and eluted using n-hexane. ...

Johanne Collin. Nouvelle ordonnance. Quatre siècles d’histoire de la pharmacie au Québec. Montréal : Presses l’Université Montréal, 2020. 408 p. 36.00 $, ISBN 978-2-7606-4217-1. Un article revue Scientia Canadensis (Photography: Science, Technology and Practice) diffusée par plateforme Érudit.

Single unit activity was recorded from the thalamus of rhesus monkeys while they performed a delayed-alternation bar-pressing task. Nine units in the dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus were activated prior to the lever presses of the contralateral hand, as indicated by an EMG of the triceps brachii muscle. In this same region, no units were found that became active during the delay period. In ...