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Toxicon 2022 Jun 6;212:55-61. Epub 2022 Apr 6.

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.

Mushroom poisoning is a deeply concerning food safety problem that affects the public in China every year. Although there are statistics on the number of poisonings and incidents, there is a lack of data on the types of toxic mushrooms, clinical manifestations and toxins. A case of wild mushroom poisoning occurred in Xiamen. Read More

Behav Neurosci 2022 Jun 28;136(3):230-242. Epub 2022 Mar 28.

Department of Psychology.

The rostral thalamic reticular nucleus (rTRN) exerts the same inhibitory control of thalamocortical transmission from the motor nuclei as the caudal sectors have over sensory nuclei. It is well established that the caudal sectors are involved in selective attention. This suggests an analogous role for rTRN in the selection of situationally appropriate behavior. Read More

Metab Brain Dis 2022 04 25;37(4):973-988. Epub 2022 Jan 25.

Department of Cytology and Histology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Rosemary oil (ROO) is known to have multiple pharmacological effects: it is an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and cytoprotective. In the present study, we examined the effects of ROO on Human olfactory bulb neuronal stem cells (hOBNSCs) after their transplantation into rats, with the ibotenic (IBO) acid-induced cognitive deficit model. After 7 weeks, cognitive functions were assessed using the Morris water maze (MWM). Read More

Front Neural Circuits 2021 7;15:768647. Epub 2022 Jan 7.

Department of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

In our previous study, we showed that the defense responses induced by the selective optogenetic activation of the uncrossed output pathway from the deeper layer of the superior colliculus were environment dependent in the mouse. In a small closed box, the stimulus frequently induced flight (fast forward run away) responses, while in a large open field, the stimulus tended to induce backward retreat responses. We tested a hypothesis that the amygdala is involved in such environment dependency of the innate defense responses. Read More

Behav Neurosci 2022 Feb 7;136(1):30-45. Epub 2021 Oct 7.

California National Primate Research Center, University of California Davis.

Decades of research studying the behavioral effects of damage to structures in medial temporal lobe of rhesus monkeys have documented that such damage, particularly damage to the amygdala, causes animals to become hyporesponsive to threat and hyper-social. This phenotype, a subset of the behaviors known as "Klüver-Bucy Syndrome," is one of the most well-known phenomena in behavioral neuroscience. Carrying on the tradition of evaluating hyposensitivity to threat in monkeys with temporal lobe lesions, we evaluated the responses of rhesus monkeys with bilateral ibotenic acid lesions of the amygdala or hippocampus and procedure-matched control animals to the presentation of an unfamiliar human intruder and threatening objects of varying complexity. Read More