Ana Rita Mendes
A5090720831- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Muscle activation and electromyography studies
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
- Congenital heart defects research
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Musicians’ Health and Performance
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Champalimaud Foundation
2019-2023
Marine Biological Laboratory
2022-2023
Neurons coordinate their activity to produce an astonishing variety of motor behaviors. Our present understanding control has grown rapidly thanks new methods for recording and analyzing populations many individual neurons over time. In contrast, current the nervous system's actual output - activation muscle fibers by typically cannot detect electrical events produced during natural behaviors scale poorly across species groups. Here we a novel class electrode devices ('Myomatrix arrays')...
Neurons coordinate their activity to produce an astonishing variety of motor behaviors. Our present understanding control has grown rapidly thanks new methods for recording and analyzing populations many individual neurons over time. In contrast, current the nervous system’s actual output – activation muscle fibers by typically cannot detect electrical events produced during natural behaviors scale poorly across species groups. Here we a novel class electrode devices (“Myomatrix arrays”)...
Neurons coordinate their activity to produce an astonishing variety of motor behaviors. Our present understanding control has grown rapidly thanks new methods for recording and analyzing populations many individual neurons over time. In contrast, current the nervous system's actual output - activation muscle fibers by typically cannot detect electrical events produced during natural behaviors scale poorly across species groups. Here we a novel class electrode devices ("Myomatrix arrays")...
Summary During sex, male arousal increases to the ejaculatory threshold, allowing genital sensory input trigger ejaculation. While copulation and sexual are thought be centrally regulated by brain, ejaculation is considered a reflex controlled spinal circuit. In this framework, cord assumed strongly inhibited descending from brain until playing no role in regulation of copulatory behavior. However, remains untested. Here, we mapped circuit controlling bulbospongiosus muscle, which involved...
We know little about mammalian anemotaxis or wind sensing. Recently, however, Hartmann and colleagues showed whisker-based in rats. To investigate how whiskers sense airflow, we first tracked whisker tips anesthetized rats under low (0.5 m/s) high (1.5 airflow. Whisker increasing movement from to airflow conditions, with all moving during Low conditions-most similar naturally occurring stimuli-engaged differentially. Most moved little, but the long supra-orbital (lSO) maximal displacement,...
Neurons coordinate their activity to produce an astonishing variety of motor behaviors. Our present understanding control has grown rapidly thanks new methods for recording and analyzing populations many individual neurons over time. In contrast, current the nervous system’s actual output – activation muscle fibers by typically cannot detect electrical events produced during natural behaviors scale poorly across species groups. Here we a novel class electrode devices (“Myomatrix arrays”)...
Prolactin (PRL) is a pleiotropic hormone that was identified in the context of maternal care and its release from anterior pituitary primarily controlled by neuroendocrine dopaminergic (NEDA) neurones arcuate nucleus hypothalamus. The sexually dimorphic nature PRL physiology associated behaviours evident mammals, even though number density NEDA reported as not being rats. However, underlying circuits controlling neuronal activity subsequent are largely uncharacterised. Thus, we mapped...
Neurons coordinate their activity to produce an astonishing variety of motor behaviors. Our present understanding control has grown rapidly thanks new methods for recording and analyzing populations many individual neurons over time. In contrast, current the nervous system’s actual output – activation muscle fibers by typically cannot detect electrical events produced during natural behaviors scale poorly across species groups. Here we a novel class electrode devices (‘Myomatrix arrays’)...
Abstract We know little about mammalian anemotaxis, wind-sensing. Recently, however, Hartmann and colleagues showed whisker-based anemotaxis in rats. To investigate how whiskers sense airflow, we tracked whisker tips anesthetized or cadaver rats under no low airflow high (fan-blowing) airflow. Whisker movement conditions all moved during Low – most similar to naturally occurring wind stimuli engaged differentially. Most little, the long supraorbital maximal displacement α, A1, β, γ also...