A short review on behavioural assessment methods in rodents.

The rodent behavioural examination techniques are used to assess various psychological, neurological models and neurotoxicity studies. Therefore, it is of interest to document the various behavioural assessment methods used in rodent model to study the motor, sensory, cognitive functions and emotional behaviour.

Exploring the Therapeutic Benefits of Pranayama (Yogic Breathing): A Systematic Review.

Background: Pranayama (yogic breathing) has demonstrated numerous beneficial health effects. At present, there are no systematic reviews evaluating the beneficial health effects of pranayama alone as a practice.

Aim: The aim of this study is to perform a systematic review about the beneficial health effects of pranayama.

Falls in older people with diabetes: Identification of simple screening measures and explanatory risk factors.

Aims: To identify risk factors for falls in older people with diabetes mellitus (DM) and to develop a low-cost fall risk screening tool.

Methods: Older adults with DM (n = 103; age = 61.6 + 6.

Sensory gating, cannabinoids and schizophrenia.

Sensory gating, a mandatory process in early information processing, has been found to be defective in neuropsychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia. Understanding the neurobiology of sensory gating may provide insight into unravelling the neurobiology of information processing and to yet unanswered queries on the pathophysiology of disabling neuropsychiatric diseases. The endocannabinoid system has been linked to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

Effects of phencyclidine on auditory gating in the rat hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex.

Sensory gating can be assessed using an auditory conditioning (C)-test (T) paradigm which measures the reduction in the auditory-evoked response produced by a test stimulus following a conditioning stimulus. Schizophrenic patients demonstrate absence of gating while dysfunction in glutamatergic neurotransmission is implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. This study examined the effect of the glutamate receptor antagonist, phencyclidine (PCP) on auditory gating in the CA3 region and dentate gyrus (DG) of rat hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC).

Sensory gating and its modulation by cannabinoids: electrophysiological, computational and mathematical analysis.

Gating of sensory information can be assessed using an auditory conditioning-test paradigm which measures the reduction in the auditory evoked response to a test stimulus following an initial conditioning stimulus. Recording brainwaves from specific areas of the brain using multiple electrodes is helpful in the study of the neurobiology of sensory gating. In this paper, we use such technology to investigate the role of cannabinoids in sensory gating in the CA3 region of the rat hippocampus.

Auditory gating in rat hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex: effect of the cannabinoid agonist WIN55,212-2.

Sensory gating can be assessed in rodents and humans using an auditory conditioning (C)-test (T) paradigm, with schizophrenic patients exhibiting a loss of gating. Dysregulation of the endocannabinoid system has been proposed to be involved in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. We studied auditory gating and the effects of the cannabinoid agonist WIN55,212-22 on gating in CA3 and dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in male Lister hooded rats using in vivo electrophysiology.