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Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019

GABAergic Inhibition Gates Perceptual Awareness During Binocular Rivalry.

Jeff Mentch, Alina Spiegel, Catherine Ricciardi, Caroline E Robertson

Registry-linked trialOpen access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06234501 (Testing the Potential of High-dose Vitamin B6 Supplements for Sensory Reactivity in Autism), which is not on this map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-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

The trial behind it

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NCT06234501 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

Testing the Potential of High-dose Vitamin B6 Supplements for Sensory Reactivity in Autism

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of ReadingRan2024 to 2026Enrolled40ConditionsAutismArmsPyridoxal 5'-Phosphate (100 mg), Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jeff MentchDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755.ORCID 0000-0002-7762-8678
Alina SpiegelSchool of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, and.
Catherine RicciardiClinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.
Caroline E RobertsonDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, caroline.e.robertson@dartmouth.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1858-6594
Dartmouth College · USJohns Hopkins University · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Binocular rivalry is a classic experimental tool to probe the neural machinery of perceptual awareness. During rivalry, perception alternates between the two eyes, and the ebb and flow of perception is modeled to rely on the strength of inhibitory interactions between competitive neuronal populations in visual cortex. As a result, rivalry has been suggested as a noninvasive perceptual marker of inhibitory signaling in visual cortex, and its putative disturbance in psychiatric conditions, including autism. Yet, direct evidence causally implicating inhibitory signaling in the dynamics of binocular rivalry is currently lacking. We previously found that people with higher GABA levels in visual cortex, measured using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, have stronger perceptual suppression during rivalry. Here, we present direct causal tests of the impact of GABAergic inhibition on rivalry dynamics, and the contribution of specific GABA receptors to these dynamics. In a crossover pharmacological design with male and female adult participants, we found that drugs that modulate the two dominant GABA receptor types in the brain, GABA

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PMID31451579
PMCPMC6794916
OpenAlexW2970058996

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