Etsuro Hori

TL;DR: These findings integrate neuroscience with evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, herpetology, and primatology by identifying a neurobiological basis for primates’ heightened visual sensitivity to snakes, and adding a crucial component to the growing evolutionary perspective that snakes have long shaped the authors' primate lineage

TL;DR: Results are consistent with the suggestion that autonomic changes induced by manipulation inducing specific acupuncture sensations might be mediated through the central nervous system, especially through the forebrain as shown in EEG changes, and are beneficial to relieve chronic pain by inhibiting sympathetic nervous activity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed cardiovascular and respiratory functions while subjects were inhaling fumes of pure compound (Cedrol) which was extracted from cedar wood oil, and found that exposure to Cedrol significantly decreased HR, SBP, and DBP compared to blank air while it increased baroreceptor sensitivity.

TL;DR: The present results suggest that simultaneous NIRS and EEG recording is useful for correlating hemodynamic responses to neural activity and suggests that GLM analysis with onset delay could reveal the temporal ordering of neural activation in the hierarchical somatosensory pathway, consistent with the neurophysiological data.

TL;DR: Novel mutant mice in which the gene encoding the β subunit of PDGFR (PDGFR‐β) was genetically deleted in CNS neurons to elucidate the role of PDF‐β are developed, demonstrating that PDG FR‐β expressed in neurons protects them from cryogenic injury and NMDA‐induced excitotoxicity.