Social buffering suppresses fear-associated activation of the lateral amygdala in male rats: behavioral and neurophysiological evidence

F Fuzzo, J Matsumoto, Y Kiyokawa… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
In social mammals, the presence of an affiliative conspecific reduces stress responses, a
phenomenon referred to as “social buffering.” In a previous study, we found that the …

Abnormal functional connectivity of resting state network detection based on linear ICA analysis in autism spectrum disorder

X Bi, J Zhao, Q Xu, Q Sun, Z Wang - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Some functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) researches in autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) patients have shown that ASD patients have significant impairment in brain …

Robot-assisted rehabilitation of ankle plantar flexors spasticity: a 3-month study with proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation

Z Zhou, Y Sun, N Wang, F Gao, K Wei… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we aim to investigate the effect of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
(PNF)-based rehabilitation for ankle plantar flexors spasticity by using a Robotic Ankle–foot …

Improving the robustness of electromyogram-pattern recognition for prosthetic control by a postprocessing strategy

X Zhang, X Li, OW Samuel, Z Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Electromyogram (EMG) contains rich information for motion decoding. As one of its major
applications, EMG-pattern recognition (PR)-based control of prostheses has been proposed …

Current trends and new challenges of databases and web applications for systems driven biological research

PK Sreenivasaiah, DH Kim - Frontiers in physiology, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of systems driven research imposes special
requirements on the technology, approach, design and architecture of computational …

Post-training inactivation of the anterior thalamic nuclei impairs spatial performance on the radial arm maze

RE Harvey, SM Thompson, LM Sanchez… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The limbic thalamus, specifically the anterior thalamic nuclei (ATN), contains brain signals
including that of head direction cells, which fire as a function of an animal's directional …

Locomotor sub-functions for control of assistive wearable robots

MA Sharbafi, A Seyfarth, G Zhao - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2017 - frontiersin.org
A primary goal of comparative biomechanics is to understand the fundamental physics of
locomotion within an evolutionary context. Such an understanding of legged locomotion …

An insect-inspired bionic sensor for tactile localization and material classification with state-dependent modulation

L Patanè, S Hellbach, AF Krause, P Arena… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Insects carry a pair of antennae on their head: multimodal sensory organs that serve a wide
range of sensory-guided behaviors. During locomotion, antennae are involved in near …

Altered morphologies and functions of the olfactory bulb and hippocampus induced by miR-30c

T Sun, T Li, H Davies, W Li, J Yang, S Li… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Adult neurogenesis is considered to contribute to a certain degree of plasticity for the brain.
However, the effects of adult-born neurons on the brain are still largely unknown. Here, we …

Global positioning system-based stimulation for robo-pigeons in open space

J Yang, R Huai, H Wang, W Li, Z Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
An evaluation method is described that will enable researchers to study fight control
characteristics of robo-pigeons in fully open space. It is not limited by the experimental …