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  1. Book ; Online: The Superior Colliculus/Tectum: Cell Types, Circuits, Computations, Behaviors

    Farrow, Karl / Isa, Tadashi / Luksch, Harald / Yonehara, Keisuke

    2019  

    Keywords Science: general issues ; Neurosciences ; superior colliculus ; optic tectum ; cell types ; neuronal circuit ; Visual Processing
    Size 1 electronic resource (137 pages)
    Publisher Frontiers Media SA
    Document type Book ; Online
    Note English ; Open Access
    HBZ-ID HT021231162
    ISBN 9782889459711 ; 2889459713
    Database ZB MED Catalogue: Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  2. Article ; Online: Double viral vector intersectional approaches for pathway-selective manipulation of motor functions and compensatory mechanisms.

    Isa, Tadashi

    Experimental neurology

    2021  Volume 349, Page(s) 113959

    Abstract: Selective manipulation of particular subcomponent of neural circuits is crucial for understanding the functional architecture of neural systems and for development of the future therapeutic strategies against neurological disorders. In this article, I ... ...

    Abstract Selective manipulation of particular subcomponent of neural circuits is crucial for understanding the functional architecture of neural systems and for development of the future therapeutic strategies against neurological disorders. In this article, I review how the intersectional approaches with double viral vector technique was introduced for the pathway-selective manipulation of spinal circuits. In this technique, a retrograde gene transfer vector is injected into the terminal area of the targeted neurons and an anterograde vector is injected at the location of their somata. Either by using the Tet-transactivator or Cre-loxP system, the experimenter can chemogenetically or optogenetically manipulate the transmission of the target pathway originated from the double-infected neurons. This technique was first developed for manipulation of spinal cord interneurons in the macaque monkeys by selective expression of tetanus neurotoxin and successfully affected the dexterous hand movements. Currently, this technique is widely used on a variety of neural pathways both in rodents and primates in combination with a variety of retrograde vectors and a variety of optogenetic and chemogenetic tools. The advantage of this technique is that it is not necessary to generate transgenic animals. Knowledge of the cell-type specific promotors is not needed. Manipulation is achieved primarily by injection of two viral vectors based on the anatomical knowledge and it is applicable in a variety of animal species including primates. The pros, cons and future direction of this technique are discussed.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Gene Transfer Techniques ; Genetic Vectors ; Humans ; Macaca ; Mice ; Movement/physiology ; Neural Pathways/physiology ; Neurons/virology ; Primates ; Rats ; Viruses
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-12-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 207148-4
    ISSN 1090-2430 ; 0014-4886
    ISSN (online) 1090-2430
    ISSN 0014-4886
    DOI 10.1016/j.expneurol.2021.113959
    Database MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

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  3. Article ; Online: Visuomotor coordination and cognitive capacity in blindsight.

    Takakuwa, Norihiro / Isa, Tadashi

    Current opinion in neurobiology

    2023  Volume 82, Page(s) 102764

    Abstract: Classical literature on blindsight described that some patients with lesions to the primary visual cortex could respond to visual stimuli without subjective awareness. Recent studies addressed more complex arguments on the conscious state of blindsight ... ...

    Abstract Classical literature on blindsight described that some patients with lesions to the primary visual cortex could respond to visual stimuli without subjective awareness. Recent studies addressed more complex arguments on the conscious state of blindsight subjects such as existence of partial awareness, namely "feeling of something happening" in the lesion-affected visual field, termed 'type II blindsight', and high-level performance in complex cognitive tasks in blindsight model monkeys. Endeavors to clarify the visual pathways for blindsight revealed the parallel thalamic routes mediating the visual inputs from the superior colliculus to extrastriate and frontoparietal cortices, which may underlie the flexible visuomotor association and cognitive control in the blindsight subjects. Furthermore, involvement of post-lesion plasticity is suggested for these neural systems to operate.
    MeSH term(s) Cognition ; Psychomotor Performance ; Blindness/physiopathology ; Blindness/psychology ; Animals ; Disease Models, Animal ; Haplorhini ; Humans ; Saccades/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-17
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1078046-4
    ISSN 1873-6882 ; 0959-4388
    ISSN (online) 1873-6882
    ISSN 0959-4388
    DOI 10.1016/j.conb.2023.102764
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  4. Article: [Great Footmark of the Late Professor Masao Ito: The Past and Future of the Japan Neuroscience Society].

    Isa, Tadashi

    Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo

    2019  Volume 71, Issue 12, Page(s) 1385–1390

    Abstract: Professor Masao Ito passed away in December last year at the age of 90. He not only performed great scientific achievements in the studies of the cerebellar circuit functions, but also made a great contribution to promotion of the neuroscience researches ...

    Abstract Professor Masao Ito passed away in December last year at the age of 90. He not only performed great scientific achievements in the studies of the cerebellar circuit functions, but also made a great contribution to promotion of the neuroscience researches both in and outside Japan. His contribution includes foundation of the Japan Neuroscience Society, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, working as the president of International Brain Research Organization, foundation of Human Frontier Science Program and foundation of federation of scientific associations in Asia such as FAONS.
    MeSH term(s) Academies and Institutes ; History, 20th Century ; Humans ; Japan ; Neurosciences/history
    Language Japanese
    Publishing date 2019-11-28
    Publishing country Japan
    Document type Biography ; Historical Article ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 390389-8
    ISSN 1344-8129 ; 1881-6096 ; 0006-8969
    ISSN (online) 1344-8129
    ISSN 1881-6096 ; 0006-8969
    DOI 10.11477/mf.1416201458
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  5. Article ; Online: Dexterous Hand Movements and Their Recovery After Central Nervous System Injury.

    Isa, Tadashi

    Annual review of neuroscience

    2019  Volume 42, Page(s) 315–335

    Abstract: Hand dexterity has uniquely developed in higher primates and is thought to rely on the direct corticomotoneuronal (CM) pathway. Recent studies have shown that rodents and carnivores lack the direct CM pathway but can control certain levels of dexterous ... ...

    Abstract Hand dexterity has uniquely developed in higher primates and is thought to rely on the direct corticomotoneuronal (CM) pathway. Recent studies have shown that rodents and carnivores lack the direct CM pathway but can control certain levels of dexterous hand movements through various indirect CM pathways. Some homologous pathways also exist in higher primates, and among them, propriospinal (PrS) neurons in the mid-cervical segments (C3-C4) are significantly involved in hand dexterity. When the direct CM pathway was lesioned caudal to the PrS and transmission of cortical commands to hand motoneurons via the PrS neurons remained intact, dexterous hand movements could be significantly recovered. This recovery model was intensively studied, and it was found that, in addition to the compensation by the PrS neurons, a large-scale reorganization in the bilateral cortical motor-related areas and mesolimbic structures contributed to recovery. Future therapeutic strategies should target these multihierarchical areas.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Central Nervous System/physiology ; Central Nervous System/physiopathology ; Hand/innervation ; Hand/physiology ; Humans ; Motor Neurons/physiology ; Movement/physiology ; Recovery of Function/physiology ; Trauma, Nervous System/physiopathology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-04-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 282459-0
    ISSN 1545-4126 ; 0147-006X
    ISSN (online) 1545-4126
    ISSN 0147-006X
    DOI 10.1146/annurev-neuro-070918-050436
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  6. Article ; Online: Using the common marmoset for neurophysiological studies of neocortical functions.

    Isa, Tadashi

    The Journal of physiology

    2017  Volume 595, Issue 23, Page(s) 7013

    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Beta Rhythm ; Callithrix ; Hand Strength ; Neocortex
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-11-02
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 3115-x
    ISSN 1469-7793 ; 0022-3751
    ISSN (online) 1469-7793
    ISSN 0022-3751
    DOI 10.1113/JP275115
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  7. Article ; Online: How to study subjective experience in an animal model of blindsight?

    Yu, Xiyao / Yamaguchi, Reona / Isa, Tadashi

    Neuroscience research

    2023  Volume 201, Page(s) 39–45

    Abstract: The nature of subjective conscious experience, which accompanies us throughout our waking lives, and how it is generated, remain elusive. One of the challenges in studying subjective experience is disentangling the brain activity related to the sensory ... ...

    Abstract The nature of subjective conscious experience, which accompanies us throughout our waking lives, and how it is generated, remain elusive. One of the challenges in studying subjective experience is disentangling the brain activity related to the sensory stimulus processing and stimulus-guided behavior from those associated with subjective perception. Blindsight, a phenomenon characterized by the retained visual discrimination performance but impaired visual consciousness due to damage to the primary visual cortex, becomes a special entry point to address this question. However, to fully understand the underlying neural mechanism, relying on studies involving human patients alone is insufficient. In this paper, we tried to address this issue, by first introducing the well-known cases of blindsight, especially the reports on subjective experience in both human and monkey subjects. And then we described how the impaired visual awareness of blindsight monkeys has been discovered and further studied by specifically designed tasks, as verbal reporting is not possible for these animals. Our previous studies also demonstrated that many complex visually guided cognitive processes were still retained despite the impairment of visual awareness. Further investigation needs to be conducted to explore the relationship between visually guided behavior, visual awareness and brain activity in blindsight subjects.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Humans ; Visual Cortex ; Awareness ; Visual Perception ; Consciousness ; Models, Animal
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-09
    Publishing country Ireland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 605842-5
    ISSN 1872-8111 ; 0168-0102 ; 0921-8696
    ISSN (online) 1872-8111
    ISSN 0168-0102 ; 0921-8696
    DOI 10.1016/j.neures.2023.09.001
    Database MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

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  8. Article ; Online: The Brain Is Needed to Cure Spinal Cord Injury.

    Isa, Tadashi

    Trends in neurosciences

    2017  Volume 40, Issue 10, Page(s) 625–636

    Abstract: Damage to corticospinal fibers in the cervical spinal cord is known to impair dexterous hand movements. However, accumulating evidence has shown that precision grip can recover considerably through rehabilitative training. Recent multidisciplinary ... ...

    Abstract Damage to corticospinal fibers in the cervical spinal cord is known to impair dexterous hand movements. However, accumulating evidence has shown that precision grip can recover considerably through rehabilitative training. Recent multidisciplinary studies have revealed that, at the spinal level, this recovery is possible due to an indirect neural pathway through propriospinal neurons (PNs), which relay cortical commands to hand motoneurons. Although this indirect spinal pathway is heavily involved in recovery, its role is dwarfed by a simultaneous large-scale network reorganization spanning motor-related cortices and mesolimbic structures. This large-scale network reorganization is key to the regulation of recovery and future therapeutic strategies will need to take into account the involvement of these supraspinal centers in addition to the known role of the spinal cord.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-10
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 282488-7
    ISSN 1878-108X ; 0378-5912 ; 0166-2236
    ISSN (online) 1878-108X
    ISSN 0378-5912 ; 0166-2236
    DOI 10.1016/j.tins.2017.08.002
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  9. Article ; Online: Effects of Light Isoflurane Anesthesia on Organization of Direction and Orientation Selectivity in the Superficial Layer of the Mouse Superior Colliculus.

    Kasai, Masatoshi / Isa, Tadashi

    The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    2021  Volume 42, Issue 4, Page(s) 619–630

    Abstract: The superior colliculus (SC) is the midbrain center for integrating visual and multimodal sensory information. Neurons in the SC exhibit direction and orientation selectivity. Recent studies reported that neurons with similar preferences formed clusters ... ...

    Abstract The superior colliculus (SC) is the midbrain center for integrating visual and multimodal sensory information. Neurons in the SC exhibit direction and orientation selectivity. Recent studies reported that neurons with similar preferences formed clusters in the mouse SC (Ahmadlou and Heimel, 2015; Feinberg and Meister, 2015; de Malmazet et al., 2018; Li et al., 2020). However, it remains controversial as to how these clusters are organized within the SC (Inayat et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2021). Here, we found that different brain states (i.e., awake or anesthetized with isoflurane) changed the selectivity of individual SC neurons and organizations of the neuronal population in both male and female mice. Using two-photon Ca
    MeSH term(s) Anesthetics, Inhalation/administration & dosage ; Animals ; Calcium-Binding Proteins/analysis ; Female ; Green Fluorescent Proteins/analysis ; Isoflurane/administration & dosage ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mice, Transgenic ; Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton/methods ; Orientation/drug effects ; Orientation/physiology ; Photic Stimulation/methods ; Superior Colliculi/chemistry ; Superior Colliculi/drug effects ; Superior Colliculi/physiology
    Chemical Substances Anesthetics, Inhalation ; Calcium-Binding Proteins ; GCaMP-HS ; Green Fluorescent Proteins (147336-22-9) ; Isoflurane (CYS9AKD70P)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-12-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 604637-x
    ISSN 1529-2401 ; 0270-6474
    ISSN (online) 1529-2401
    ISSN 0270-6474
    DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1196-21.2021
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  10. Article ; Online: Neural Mechanism of Blindsight in a Macaque Model.

    Isa, Tadashi / Yoshida, Masatoshi

    Neuroscience

    2021  Volume 469, Page(s) 138–161

    Abstract: Some patients with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) exhibit visuomotor ability, despite loss of visual awareness, a phenomenon termed "blindsight". We review a series of studies conducted mainly in our laboratory on macaque monkeys with ... ...

    Abstract Some patients with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) exhibit visuomotor ability, despite loss of visual awareness, a phenomenon termed "blindsight". We review a series of studies conducted mainly in our laboratory on macaque monkeys with unilateral V1 lesioning to reveal the neural pathways underlying visuomotor transformation and the cognitive capabilities retained in blindsight. After lesioning, it takes several weeks for the recovery of visually guided saccades toward the lesion-affected visual field. In addition to the lateral geniculate nucleus, the pathway from the superior colliculus to the pulvinar participates in visuomotor processing in blindsight. At the cortical level, bilateral lateral intraparietal regions become critically involved in the saccade control. These results suggest that the visual circuits experience drastic changes while the monkey acquires blindsight. In these animals, analysis based on signal detection theory adapted to behavior in the "Yes-No" task indicates reduced sensitivity to visual targets, suggesting that visual awareness is impaired. Saccades become less accurate, decisions become less deliberate, and some forms of bottom-up attention are impaired. However, a variety of cognitive functions are retained such as saliency detection during free viewing, top-down attention, short-term spatial memory, and associative learning. These observations indicate that blindsight is not a low-level sensory-motor response, but the residual visual inputs can access these cognitive capabilities. Based on these results we suggest that the macaque model of blindsight replicates type II blindsight patients who experience some "feeling" of objects, which guides cognitive capabilities that we naïvely think are not possible without phenomenal consciousness.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 196739-3
    ISSN 1873-7544 ; 0306-4522
    ISSN (online) 1873-7544
    ISSN 0306-4522
    DOI 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.06.022
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