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ArticleNature communications2015

Multisensory training reverses midbrain lesion-induced changes and ameliorates haemianopia.

Huai Jiang, Barry E Stein, John G McHaffie

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Article in Nature communications, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The Development of Multisensory Integration at the Neuronal Level.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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  5. Ameliorating Hemianopia with Multisensory Training.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  6. Face shape processingFrontiers in neuroscience · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Huai JiangDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1010 USA.
Barry E SteinDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1010 USA.
John G McHaffieDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1010 USA.
Wake Forest University · US

Funding

CORTICAL-SUBCORTICAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN ORIENTATIONR01NS035008 · NINDS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MCHAFFIE, JOHN GEORGE · 1995 to 2012
$4.4M
NINDS NIH HHS NS35008NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS035008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Failure to attend to visual cues is a common consequence of visual cortex injury. Here, we report on a behavioural strategy whereby cross-modal (auditory-visual) training reinstates visuomotor competencies in animals rendered haemianopic by complete unilateral visual cortex ablation. The re-emergence of visual behaviours is correlated with the reinstatement of visual responsiveness in deep layer neurons of the ipsilesional superior colliculus (SC). This functional recovery is produced by training-induced alterations in descending influences from association cortex that allowed these midbrain neurons to once again transform visual cues into appropriate orientation behaviours. The findings underscore the inherent plasticity and functional breadth of phylogenetically older visuomotor circuits that can express visual capabilities thought to have been subsumed by more recently evolved brain regions. These observations suggest the need for reevaluating current concepts of functional segregation in the visual system and have important implications for strategies aimed at ameliorating trauma-induced visual deficits in humans.

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Acoustic StimulationAnimalsCatsCuesHemianopsiaMesencephalonNeuronsOrientationPhotic StimulationPsychomotor PerformanceRecovery of FunctionSuperior ColliculiVisual CortexVisual Pathways

Identifiers

PMID26021613
PMCPMC6193257
OpenAlexW398688657

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