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Modulations of motor excitation (CSE) and inhibition (cSP) reflect, respectively, the processing of top-down and bottom-up information employed during (dyadic) joint action coordination. Furthermore, emergent individual idiosyncrasies—perhaps reflecting a different combination of top-down and bottom-up processes—result in very different coordination...

Overexpression of Mef2c or Kif2c alone significantly increases the number of axon branches; MEF2C directly regulates the expression of Kif2c and is a transcription activator of Kif2c. Abstract Neurons are post-mitotic cells, with microtubules playing crucial roles in axonal transport and growth. Kinesin family member 2c (KIF2C), a member...

The GPe regulates information flow in cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuits. This nucleus relays ascending and descending signals and serves as a central hub within the CBGT network. Abstract For decades, the external globus pallidus (GPe) has been viewed as a passive way-station in the indirect pathway of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic...

The aim was to evaluate the early and late amplitude and latencies of CNV in schizophrenia (SZ) patients compared to healthy controls (HC) during a reward processing task. Decreased early CNV amplitudes in SZ during the reward condition, and diminished and shortened late CNV responses for incentive cues were found. Early CNV amplitudes exhibited a...

Abstract The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has been shown to be critical to many aspects of executive function including filtering irrelevant information, updating response contingencies when reinforcement contingencies change and stabilizing task sets. Nonspecific lesions to this region in rats produce a vulnerability to distractors that...