Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-02-22T18:57:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JosephAndrewsBeloAlves_DISSERT.pdf: 2493249 bytes, checksum: 1b737b22d98e824d63c44e7fc7f94b62 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-03-04T00:26:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 JosephAndrewsBeloAlves_DISSERT.pdf: 2493249 bytes, checksum: 1b737b22d98e824d63c44e7fc7f94b62 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-04T00:26:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JosephAndrewsBeloAlves_DISSERT.pdf: 2493249 bytes, checksum: 1b737b22d98e824d63c44e7fc7f94b62 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-17 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Ao explorar ativamente o ambiente, ratos exibem comportamentos sens?rio-motores r?tmicos com frequ?ncia na faixa teta (5-10 Hz). Dentre esses est?o o sniffing (respira??o ativa e r?pida), o whisking (movimento das vibrissas faciais) e as vocaliza??es ultrass?nicas. Estudos recentes mostraram formas de sincronicidades entre tais ritmos: a protra??o e retra??o das vibrissas est?o associadas em fase, respectivamente, ? inala??o e exala??o respirat?ria; a constri??o das cordas vocais necess?ria para a produ??o vocal, por sua vez, est? condicionada ? fase exalante do sniffing e de retra??o do whisking. Embora essas e outras observa??es indiquem uma intera??o entre ritmos e geradores de padr?es no tronco encef?lico aos quais s?o atribu?dos os movimentos orais, faciais e respirat?rios. Com o intuito de adquirir melhor compreens?o acerca das hierarquias concernentes aos circuitos neurais envolvidos em tais atividades, n?s gravamos simultaneamente o whisking, sniffing e as vocaliza??es em ratos durante livre explora??o social. Para este prop?sito, oito eletrodos foram inseridos cirurgicamente para a aquisi??o de sinais eletromiogr?ficos bilaterais dos m?sculos que controlam as vibrissas e uma c?nula foi implantada por meio de uma perfura??o no osso nasal para o registro do ciclo respirat?rio. Ap?s recupera??o e habitua??o, dois ratos (um implantado e outro de est?mulo) foram posicionados sobre duas plataformas separadas por uma fenda onde possibilitava a explora??o m?tua dos animais. Esses epis?dios foram filmados atrav?s de uma c?mera de alta velocidade (250 Hz) para a captura dos movimentos das vibrissas. As vocaliza??es ultrass?nicas foram detectadas por um microfone suspenso. N?s conduzimos an?lises de fase e frequ?ncia para validar os sinais registrados e caracterizar as a??es rec?procas entre esses ciclos em contextos sociais. Os resultados confirmaram que ambos o whisking e o sniffing ocorrem em turnos nas frequ?ncias teta durante explora??o social. Al?m disso, a esperada rela??o em anti-fase entre os sinais dos grupos musculares que controlam a protra??o e retra??o das vibrissas assim como a forte sincronia com o ciclo respirat?rio foram observadas. Interessantemente, nossos dados sugerem que esta sincronia ? imediatamente dissipada durante a emiss?o de vocaliza??es ultrass?nicas. Em vez disso, n?s presenciamos um novo comportamento de whisking, que consiste em retra??o e protra??o ativas e independentes do ciclo respirat?rio. / When actively exploring the environment, rats exhibit several rhythmic behaviors with frequencies in the theta range (5-10 Hz). These include sniffing (active fast respiration), whisking (movement of the facial vibrissae), and ultrasonic vocalizations. Synchronizations between each pair of these behaviors have been observed in recent studies: vibrissae protraction-retraction is linked to the inhalation-exhalation phase of breathing; constriction of the vocal folds for vocalization, in turn, is locked to the exhalation phase of sniffing; accordingly, vocalizations were observed to synchronize with the retraction phase of whisking. These and other observations point to an interaction of rhythm and pattern generators in the brainstem controlling the coordination of respiratory, oral and facial movements. To better understand the hierarchies among these circuits we simultaneously recorded sniffing, whisking and vocalizations from rats during free social exploration. For this purpose, eight electrodes were inserted surgically to acquire bilateral EMG signals from muscles controlling the protraction and retraction of the whiskers and a cannula was implanted through the nasal bone to record the respiratory cycle. After one week of recovery and habituation, two rats (one implanted and one naive) were placed across a gap where they could explore each other. These interactions were filmed with a high speed camera (250 Hz) to capture whisker movements and ultrasonic vocalizations were recorded from an overhanging microphone. We made frequency and phase analysis to validate the recorded signals and characterize the interplay between these sensorimotor rhythms. Results confirmed that both sniffing and whisking occur in bouts at theta frequencies during social exploration. Furthermore, we observed the expected anti-phase relationship between the EMGs from muscles controlling whisker protraction and retraction as well as their tight synchrony with the sniffing cycle. Interestingly, our data suggests that this synchrony is immediately lost during the emission of ultrasonic vocalizations. Instead, we observed a novel whisking behavior, consisting of active vibrissae protraction and retraction independent of the respiratory cycle.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-03-09T22:59:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ArthurSergioCavalcantiDeFranca_TESE.pdf: 14502072 bytes, checksum: 07eea320317f9aa96a67cda6ed40b06a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-03-13T23:54:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ArthurSergioCavalcantiDeFranca_TESE.pdf: 14502072 bytes, checksum: 07eea320317f9aa96a67cda6ed40b06a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-13T23:54:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArthurSergioCavalcantiDeFranca_TESE.pdf: 14502072 bytes, checksum: 07eea320317f9aa96a67cda6ed40b06a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-04 / O hipocampo ? relacionado com a forma??o de mem?rias explicitas e com a capacidade de reconhecer novos objetos. No presente trabalho visamos contribuir para uma maior compreens?o do papel da regi?o CA1 do hipocampo nestes processos. Atrav?s da aplica??o de t?cnicas de eletrofisiologia, comportamento animal, psicofarmacologia e optogen?tica em camundongos transg?nicos e selvagens, encontramos que c?lulas OLM?2 do CA1 atuam na codifica??o da representa??o de objetos em uma tarefa de reconhecimento de objetos, e tamb?m influenciam a codifica??o de mem?rias aversivas em uma tarefa associativa de medo ao contexto. Al?m disso, descrevemos uma nova atividade oscilat?ria no potencial de campo local do CA1 na frequ?ncia beta 2 (23-30 Hz), que ? caracteristicamente transit?ria e ligada ? detec??o de novos objetos durante uma tarefa de reconhecimento de objetos. Estes resultados sugerem potenciais mecanismos celulares e de rede neuronal na regi?o CA1 subjacentes ao seu papel na forma??o de mem?rias e na detec??o de novidade. / The hippocampus is associated to novelty detection and formation of explicit memories. The present work aims at better understanding the role of the CA1 region of the hippocampus in these processes. By employing electrophysiology, animal behavior, psychopharmacology and optogenetic techniques in transgenic and wild-type mice, we found that CA1 OLM?2 cells influence the formation of new object representations in an object recognition task, as well as the encoding of aversive memories in a contextual fear memory task. Furthermore, we characterized a new oscillatory activity in the local field potential of CA1 at beta 2 frequency (23-30 Hz), which was typically transient and linked to the amount of novelty in an object recognition task. These results suggest potential cellular and network mechanisms that underlie the role of CA1 in memory formation and novelty detection.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-04-03T23:16:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GiovanneDeRossoMancos_DISSERT.pdf: 2288742 bytes, checksum: 2e40717ccaeabdc73f200a50c2605795 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-04-11T23:30:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 GiovanneDeRossoMancos_DISSERT.pdf: 2288742 bytes, checksum: 2e40717ccaeabdc73f200a50c2605795 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-11T23:30:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GiovanneDeRossoMancos_DISSERT.pdf: 2288742 bytes, checksum: 2e40717ccaeabdc73f200a50c2605795 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-28 / Os primeiros fisiologistas ficaram certamente impressionados com a exist?ncia de oscila??es peri?dicas de alta amplitude, claramente vis?veis nos tra?ados obtidos da retina, trato ?ptico e g?nglios ?pticos. Posteriormente v?rios estudos mostraram ser a c?lulas ganglionares os elementos respons?veis pela gera??o destes ritmos r?pidos, que sabia-se podem propagar da retina ao geniculado lateral e ao c?rtex. Apenas recentemente, no entanto, estas observa??es ganharam novo interesse, principalmente a luz de teorias e conjecturas que atribuem ?s oscila??es neuronais v?rios processos cognitivos, como a liga??o perceptual, a aten??o e a mem?ria. Segundo esta hip?tese, oscila??es r?pidas da retina seriam importantes para a liga??o de contornos cont?guos ou superf?cies, podendo assim constituir um mecanismo feedforward importante na segmenta??o visual. Em acordo com estas no??es, uma s?rie de experimentos no gato mostraram que oscila??es r?pidas da retina podem ser informativas sobre propriedades globais do est?mulo como o seu tamanho. Uma grande limita??o nestes estudos, no entanto, foi o fato de terem sido feitos sob anestesia e paralisia. Apenas alguns experimentos foram realizados em gatos n?oanestesiados, mesmo assim, paralisados. Uma outra limita??o foi o uso de est?mulos visuais limitados a breves exposi??es, que ocupavam todo o campo visual, muito longe de condi??es naturais da vis?o. Por outro lado, muito recentemente, fizemos uma observa??o inesperada no nosso laborat?rio: oscila??es r?pidas da retina dependem fortemente da anestesia por halotano (e isoflurano). Tornou-se assim imperativo investigar se as oscila??es r?pidas da retina est?o presentes ou n?o no gato n?o anestesiado, em condi??es naturais, como por exemplo durante a observa??o-livre de uma cena visual. Este ? o principal objetivo deste estudo. Para isto, registros simult?neos atrav?s de eletr?dios-m?ltiplos foram feitos no geniculado lateral e na retina de gatos anestesiados (N= 3) e acordado (N= 1). Compara??es foram feitas para respostas a filmes de cenas naturais e est?mulos estacion?rios, como c?rculos luminosos. Para testar especificamente o papel das oscila??es r?pidas da retina na codifica??o do tamanho do est?mulo visual aplicamos um protocolo que consiste em apresentar sobre os campos receptores um c?rculo luminoso de tamanho vari?vel ao longo do tempo. T?cnicas de separa??o de potenciaisde- a??o nos permitiu estudar individualmente os componentes ON e OFF das respostas multi-unit?rias. Nossa an?lise consistiu em obter medidas das oscila??es sincr?nicas para c?lulas isoladas ao longo do tempo no dom?nio temporal (an?lise de correla??o por janela deslizante) e no dom?nio espectral (an?lise espectral por afunilamento m?ltiplo, coer?ncia por afunilamento m?ltiplo). Estes resultados estendem os nossos achados pr?vios no gato anestesiado, que foram restritos ? an?lise de auto-correla??o de repostas multi-unit?rias do geniculado lateral. Tanto as repostas ON como as respostas OFF a est?mulos visuais de tamanho vari?vel mostram que oscila??es coerentes, que aparecem apenas para est?mulos que atingem um tamanho m?nimo de cerca de 5? (dependendo do n?vel de contraste do est?mulo). Estes resultados sugerem que oscila??es r?pidas da retina codificam mal mudan?as sutis no tamanho do est?mulo visual. Como nos estudos anteriores no geniculado lateral, registros obtidos diretamente da retina mostraram que oscila??es r?pidas da retina s?o altamente dependentes dos n?veis de anestesia por halotano. E mais importante, em uma s?rie de experimentos pode-se registrar respostas do geniculado lateral em um gato acordado, que foi subsequentemente anestesiado por halotano, mantendo-se o mesmo s?tio de registro. Oscila??es r?pidas da retina, ausentes durante a condi??o acordado, apareceram fortes como usualmente na condi??o de anestesia por halotano. Estes resultados como um todo enfraquecem substancialmente a no??o de serem as oscila??es r?pidas da retina importantes para o processamento visual. Por outro lado, demonstram que oscila??es r?pidas da retina podem apresentar propriedades semelhantes a oscila??es gama no cortex. Desta forma, oscila??es da retina induzidas por halotano podem servir como uma prepara??o interessante, mesmo se artificial, para o estudo da din?mica de oscila??es neuronais. / Early physiologists were dazzled by the occurrence of high-amplitude, periodic oscillations, easily discernible in recording traces from the eye, optic tract and optic ganglia. Numerous studies thereafter pointed to retinal ganglion cell as the elements responsible for the generation of these fast rhythms, which were known to propagate to the lateral geniculate and to the cortex. Only recently, however, these early observations gained renewed interest, mainly in the light of recent theories linking neuronal oscillations to various cognitive processes, such as perceptual binding, attention and memory. In this context, fast retinal oscillations have been associated to the binding of contiguous contours or surfaces, which in principle could support a fast feedforward segmentation process. In addition, a series of experiments in the cat have shown that fast oscillations in the retina may convey global stimulus properties, such as size. A limitation in these previous studies, however, was that most of them where were made in the anesthetized and paralyzed cat. Only a few early studies have been performed in the non-anesthetized but still paralyzed cat. Another concern was that, in these latter experiments, visual stimuli were often limited to ganzfeld flashes, far from natural vision conditions. Moreover, very recently we made the surprising observation that fast retinal oscillations depend strongly on halothane (and isoflurane) anesthesia. It was therefore imperative to verify whether oscillatory activity is also present in the awake cat, under naturalistic conditions, such as during free-viewing of a visual scene. This is the main goal of the present study. Simultaneous multiple-electrode recordings were made from the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and the retina of anesthetized cats (N= 3) and from the LGN of an awake cat (N= 1). Comparisons were made for responses to natural movies and flashed stationary light stimuli. To test specifically the role of retinal oscillations in encoding stimulus size we designed a protocol made of a light circle of varying size along the trial. Spike sorting techniques allowed us to study separately the ON- and OFFcomponents of the responses. Analysis consisted in measuring synchronous oscillations for single cell spiking activity in the time (sliding correlation analysis) and spectral domains (multitaper spectral analysis, multitaper coherence). Our present results based on single-cells extend our previous findings in the anesthetized cat, which were restricted to an autocorrelation analysis of LGN mutiunitary responses. Both ON- and OFF-responses to varying size stimuli show that coherent oscillations appear only after the stimulus attained a minimum size of about 5? (depending on the contrast level), suggesting that oscillations in the retina are rather limited in encoding subtle changes in stimulus size. Recordings obtained directly from eye showed that oscillations in the retina, as in the LGN, are highly correlated with the concentrations level of halothane. Notably, in a series of sessions we were able to record LGN responses in an awake cat, which was subsequently anesthetized with halothane, keeping the same recording site. Oscillations were completely absent in the awake condition and appeared strong as usual during the halothane anesthesia. Overall these results weaken substantially the notion that fast retinal oscillations are meaningful for vision. Nevertheless, as shown from our single cell analysis, retinal oscillations share many of the properties of cortical gamma oscillations. In this respect, oscillations in the retina induced by halothane serve as a valuable preparation, even though artificial, for studying oscillatory neuronal dynamics.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-04-03T23:16:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelFranzonBenz_DISSERT.pdf: 10736405 bytes, checksum: ca4d2c8372c3631326a624f5404a7a3e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-04-11T23:43:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelFranzonBenz_DISSERT.pdf: 10736405 bytes, checksum: ca4d2c8372c3631326a624f5404a7a3e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-11T23:43:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelFranzonBenz_DISSERT.pdf: 10736405 bytes, checksum: ca4d2c8372c3631326a624f5404a7a3e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-20 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Salicilato, o principal composto de diversos medicamentos, como a Aspirina, ? conhecido por causar zumbido se consumido em altas doses ou de forma cr?nica (para o tratamento de osteoporose, por exemplo). Zumbido ? o ouvir ou a percep??o de um som quando nenhum est?mulo f?sico est? presente. O zumbido n?o ? uma doen?a em si, mas um sintoma presente em diversas doen?as, e est? associado ? ansiedade e outros dist?rbios de humor. Apesar de estar diretamente ligado ao sistema auditivo, o zumbido n?o ? gerado a partir de uma regi?o espec?fica do c?rebro. Al?m disso, alguns estudos mostraram que o salicilato afeta v?rias regi?es cerebrais al?m do sistema auditivo, como o estriado, amigdala e o hipocampo. Estudos iniciais atribu?ram uma fun??o unit?ria ao hipocampo: processamento de memorias declarativas. Entretanto, estudos mais recentes mostraram que o hipocampo n?o s? possui outras fun??es, como processamento emocional, mas tamb?m pode ser dividido em ventral e dorsal, e a parte ventral desempenha um papel essencial no processamento emocional. A oscila??o mais estudada do c?rebro ? o r?tmo teta, e ela pode ser encontrada em todo o hipocampo. Dois tipos de teta podem ser distinguidos: o teta tipo 1, que ? resistente a atropina, possui uma frequ?ncia mais alta (7 a 10 Hz) e est? relacionado com comportamentos de padr?o motor; e o teta tipo 2, que ? sens?vel a atropina, possui uma frequ?ncia mais baixa (4 to 7 Hz) e ocorre durante anestesia, estado de imobilidade vigilante e situa??es de alta ansiedade. O presente estudo investigou os efeitos eletrofisiol?gicos do salicilato no hipocampo ventral de camundongos em estado de comportamento. Atrav?s da inje??o de salicilato foi gerado teta tipo 2 no hipocampo ventral. Tamb?m foi encontrado que o salicilato leva a comportamentos de ansiedade. / Salicylate, the main compound of many medications as Aspirin, is known to cause tinnitus if consumed in high doses or in a chronic way (for the treatment of osteoporosis, for example). Tinnitus is the hearing or perception of a sound when no physical stimulus is present. Tinnitus is not a disease itself, but a symptom present in some diseases, and is associated with anxiety and other mood disorders. Despite being directly related with auditory system, tinnitus is not generated from one specific region of the brain. Additionally, some studies showed that salicylate affects various brain regions besides the auditory system, as the striatum, amygdala and the hippocampus. Early studies have ascribed a unitary function to the hippocampus: declarative memory processing. However, more recent studies showed that the hippocampus not only has other functions, as emotional processing, but also can be divided into ventral and dorsal, and the ventral part plays an essential role in emotional processing. The most studied oscillation of the brain is the theta rhythm, and it can be found in the entire hippocampus. Two types of theta can be distinguished: the type 1, that is atropine resistant, has a higher frequency (7 to 10 Hz) and is related with motor pattern behaviors; and the type 2 theta, that is atropine sensitive, has a lower frequency (4 to 7 Hz) and occur during anesthesia, alert immobility and high arousal situations. The present study investigated the electrophysiological effects of salicylate in the ventral hippocampus of behaving mice. Through salicylate injection we generated type 2 theta in the ventral hippocampus. We also found that salicylate led to anxietylike behavior

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-07-17T13:25:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RobsonSchefferTeixeira_TESE.pdf: 28541390 bytes, checksum: 963c2c435bf67ce018fa618617a1a0a6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-07-19T14:26:40Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 RobsonSchefferTeixeira_TESE.pdf: 28541390 bytes, checksum: 963c2c435bf67ce018fa618617a1a0a6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-19T14:26:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RobsonSchefferTeixeira_TESE.pdf: 28541390 bytes, checksum: 963c2c435bf67ce018fa618617a1a0a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-07 / An?lises espectrais de registros eletrofisiol?gicos extracelulares t?m revelado que a atividade el?trica produzida pelo c?rebro ? comumente organizada em padr?es r?tmicos, conhecidos como oscila??es neuronais. Mais recentemente, descobriu-se que as oscila??es neuronais de frequ?ncias distintas n?o s?o independentes, mas podem interagir entre si. Ao longo das ?ltimas duas d?cadas, diversas ferramentas de an?lises foram desenvolvidas, amadurecidas e incorporadas de outras ?reas para se estudar os chamados acoplamentos entre frequ?ncias de oscila??es neuronais observadas nestes registros. Oscila??es neuronais s?o ditas acopladas se houver uma rela??o de depend?ncia entre suas caracter?sticas, como fase, amplitude ou frequ?ncia instant?neas. Dentre elas, o acoplamento fase-amplitude ? caracterizado por um aumento da amplitude instant?nea de uma banda de frequ?ncia condicionado a uma fase instant?nea de uma oscila??o de outra banda, enquanto que o acoplamento fase-fase do tipo n:m ? caracterizado pela rela??o fixa entre m ciclos de uma frequ?ncia em nciclos de outra. O hipocampo ? uma regi?o cerebral envolvida na forma??o de mem?rias e navega??o espacial. Assim como em outras estruturas, as redes neuronais do hipocampo produzem diversos padr?es oscilat?rios, que variam de acordo com os estados do ciclo sono-vig?lia. Entre estes padr?es, classicamente destacam-se os ritmos teta (4-12 Hz) e gama (30-100 Hz), que caracterizam estados comportamentais de locomo??o e sono REM. No entanto, o estudo dos padr?es de acoplamento oscilat?rio no hipocampo tem revelado subtipos oscilat?rios distintos dentro da defini??o tradicional da banda gama. Mais ainda, trabalhos recentes t?m mostrado a exist?ncia de oscila??es acopladas ao ritmo teta em frequ?ncias mais altas (>100 Hz), embora haja uma diverg?ncia na literatura atual sobre at? aonde estas oscila??es de altas frequ?ncias representariam atividade oscilat?ria genu?na de redes neuronais ou se seriam derivadas de efeitos esp?rios oriundos de contamina??es por resqu?cios de potencias de a??o registrados extracelularmente. A presente tese de doutorado visa contribuir para o maior entendimento dos padr?es oscilat?rios produzidos por redes neuronais do hipocampo, com particular foco nas rela??es de acoplamento entre oscila??es de diferentes frequ?ncias. Atrav?s de dados pr?prios e compartilhados de terceiros de animais implantados cronicamente com matrizes de m?ltiplos eletrodos, obtivemos registros da atividade el?trica da regi?o CA1 de ratos durante a explora??o de ambientes familiares e per?odos de sono. Investigamos a exist?ncia conjunta de distintos padr?es oscilat?rios do hipocampo em diferentes frequ?ncias atrav?s de marcadores eletrofisiol?gicos, anat?micos e comportamentais de cada oscila??o neuronal que, quando combinados, levaram a um perfil ?nico para cada banda de frequ?ncia. Nossos resultados mostram a exist?ncia de m?ltiplas bandas de frequ?ncia moduladas pelo ritmo teta hipocampal. As modula??es s?o dotadas de diversos mecanismos separat?rios, provavelmente de forma a minimizar interfer?ncias. Demonstramos ainda que padr?es oscilat?rios esp?rios e genu?nos podem co-existir numa mesma faixa de frequ?ncia, e que, ao contr?rio de trabalhos recentes, n?o h? evid?ncia para acoplamentos do tipo fase-fase n:m no hipocampo. A capacidade de uma oscila??o neural interagir com outras oscila??es, aparentemente independentes, levanta questionamentos naturais sobre sua signific?ncia biol?gica, que, apesar de diversos avan?os na ?rea, ainda permanece um mist?rio na sua ess?ncia. / Spectral analysis of extracellular electrophysiological recordings revealed that the brain electrical activity is often organized in rhythmic patterns, known as neuronal oscillations. Recently, it was discovered that oscillations of distinct frequencies are not independent, but can interact to each other. In the last two decades, several analysis tools were developed or incorporated from other fields to study cross-frequency coupling between neural oscillations. Neural oscillations are said to be coupled if there is a dependency between their features, such as phase, amplitude or frequency. Among them, phase ? amplitude coupling is characterized by an increase in the instantaneous amplitude of one frequency band conditioned to the instantaneous phase of another frequency band, whereas n:m phase ? phase coupling is characterized by a fixed relation between m cycles of one frequency to n cycles of another one. The hippocampus is a brain region involved in memory formation and spatial navigation. As in other brain structures, hippocampal neural networks generate several oscillatory patterns, which vary according to the stage of the sleep-waking cycle. Among these patterns, theta (4 ? 12 Hz) and gamma (30 ? 100 Hz) oscillations are prominent during active waking and REM sleep. However, the study of coupling patterns in the hippocampus has revealed distinct sub-types of oscillatory activity inside the traditional gamma band. Moreover, recent studies have shown the existence of even faster oscillations coupled to theta in the hippocampus (> 100 Hz), although there is a current divergence in the literature about whether they represent genuine network activity or spurious by-products from incomplete filtering of extracellular spikes. This thesis investigates oscillatory patterns generated by hippocampal neural networks, focusing in the coupling relation among oscillations of different frequencies. Using our own data and shared third-party ones of chronically implanted animals with multisite electrodes, we recorded electrical activity in the CA1 region of rats while exploring a familiar environment and during sleep stages. We investigated the existence of simultaneous but distinct oscillatory patterns in the hippocampus separated by electrophysiological, anatomic and behavioral markers, which, once taken together, can lead to a unique profile for each frequency band. Our results point to the existence of several frequency bands coupled to the hippocampal theta rhythm. All modulations are found to be separated by mechanisms that can potentially avoid interferences. We also demonstrate that a spurious oscillatory patterns can emerge and co-exist in the same frequency band of genuine oscillations and, contrary to recent work, we show that there is lack of evidence for n:m phase ? phase coupling in the hippocampus. The capacity of neural oscillations to interact with one another raises questions about the biological significance of such phenomenon; despite recent progress in the field, however, its essence remains a mystery.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-10-04T23:54:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelDosSantosDeBessa_DISSERT.pdf: 5392283 bytes, checksum: e272b2b1fcdcb6eb2e291aaaead851c7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-10-16T20:46:40Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelDosSantosDeBessa_DISSERT.pdf: 5392283 bytes, checksum: e272b2b1fcdcb6eb2e291aaaead851c7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-16T20:46:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelDosSantosDeBessa_DISSERT.pdf: 5392283 bytes, checksum: e272b2b1fcdcb6eb2e291aaaead851c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-30 / A epilepsia do lobo temporal (ELT) ? a forma mais frequente de epilepsia em adultos, caracterizada clinicamente por um quadro progressivo de crises epil?pticas com foco no lobo temporal, em particular no hipocampo. Dentre os modelos animais, os mais utilizados na investiga??o dos mecanismos fisiopatol?gicos desta condi??o geram crises recorrentes espont?neas atrav?s da indu??o inicial de um estado convulsivo sustentado (status epilepticus, SE) ? por administra??o do agonista glutamat?rgico ionotr?pico, ?cido ca?nico (AC) ou do agonista colin?rgico muscar?nico, pilocarpina (PILO). Entretanto, o uso de inje??es sist?micas e a falta de controle preciso sobre a dura??odo SE geram alta mortalidade, morte celular dispersa e grande variabilidade comportamental durante a fase cr?nica da epilepsia, o que difere em v?rios aspectos do quadro humano. A nosso ver, este padr?o decorre da a??o sist?mica da droga e da dificuldade de controlar a atividade eletrogr?fica/tempo de SE a que cada animal ? submetido, influenciando a din?mica da epileptog?nese. Portanto, este projeto teve como objetivo gerar modelos de ELT por infus?o intra-hipocampal de AC e PILO em ratos e analisar seus comportamentos e atividade eletrofisiol?gica durante o SE. Vale ressaltar que ainda n?o h? estudos eletrofisiol?gicos aprofundados sobre o modelo de PILO intra-hipocampal. Para isto, implantamos feixes de microeletrodos bilateralmente no hipocampo e unilateralmente no c?rtex pr?-frontal medial (CPFm), junto a uma c?nula no hipocampo ventral para infus?o de AC ou PILO. Ap?s a indu??o do SE analisamos a progress?o comportamental e eletrofisiol?gica dos animais. O SE foi bloqueado ap?s 2h por um coquetel anti-convulsivante mais potente do que o utilizado na maioria dos estudos atuais e os animais foram acompanhados por registros cont?nuos de v?deo-EEG sincronizado por at? 72h. Sete dias ap?s o SE, os animais foram sacrificados e seus c?rebros retirados para verifica??o histol?gica da posi??o da c?nula e eletrodos. Os registros de v?deo e de EEG foram analisados por inspe??o visual e t?cnicas de an?lise de s?ries temporais. Nossos resultados mostraram que os animais PILO apresentam 1a crise comportamental com menor lat?ncia do que os animais tratados com AC, por?m com severidade mais vari?vel (AC: 90% animais classe 1 vs. PILO: 50% animais ?classe 3, escala de Racine). Animais PILO tamb?m tiveram menor n?mero de comportamentos do tipo wet-dog shakes que os animais AC, associado a um in?cio de SE precoce comparado aos animais AC. Do ponto de vista eletrofisiol?gico, observamos oscila??es de alta frequ?ncia (>150 Hz), comumente observadas na fase cr?nica da epilepsia, logo ap?s a inje??o de ambos convulsivantes (15-40 min antes do in?cio do SE) concomitante ?s primeiras crises eletrogr?ficas. Por fim, identificamos que o SE em ambos modelos exibe uma organiza??o modular da atividade parox?stica com v?rios n?veis de ritmicidade sobrepostos. Nossos resultados indicam uma maior epileptogenicidade da PILO em rela??o ao AC e, que estas drogas produzem SE com din?micas distintas. Pudemos observar uma composi??o com m?dulos de oscila??es sobrepostas repetidos periodicamente, m?dulos de hipersincronia sem oscila??es acopladas e segmentos de atividade ass?ncrona. Nossos dados ressaltam a import?ncia do registro eletrogr?fico durante o SE para melhor controlar as respostas individuais durante este per?odo. / Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of epilepsy in adults. It is characterized by a progressive occurrence of epileptic seizures originating in the temporal lobe, particularly in the hippocampal formation (mesial TLE). Among the animal models used to investigate the physiopathological mechanisms of TLE, the most used are those that lead to spontaneous seizures after an initial insult, such as a prolonged convulsive state (status epilepticus, SE). This condition can be induced by the administration of the glutamatergic agonist, kainic acid (KA) or the cholinergic agonist, pilocarpine (PILO). However, the use of systemic injections and the lack of electrophysiological monitoring during SE lead to high mortality rates, widespread cell death and high behavioral variability during the chronic phase of epilepsy, which differs in several aspects from the human condition. These effects are mainly due to the lack of electrographic control of SE duration and the dynamics of the epileptogenesis process during the weeks following SE. Therefore, this project aimed to generate two animal models of TLE by intra-hippocampal injections of KA or PILO, and then, to analyze their behavioral and electrographic progression during SE. It is important to notice that no electrophysiological study has investigated the SE dynamics in animals infused with PILO into hippocampus so far. For that, we implanted two bundles of microelectrodes in the hippocampus bilaterally, one bundle in the medial prefrontal cortex and a cannula above the intermediate hippocampus for KA or PILO infusion. Following SE induction, we analyzed the behavioral and electrophysiological evolution of KA and PILO animals. SE was blocked after 2h by the injection of an anti-convulsant cocktail and the animals were continuously monitored by video-EEG for up to 72h. Seven days after SE, animals underwent euthanasia and had the brains removed for histological localization of cannula and electrodes. Video and EEG recordings were analyzed by visual inspection and spectral decomposition. Our results showed that PILO animals had shorter latency for first behavioral seizure than KA rats after drug injection. However, seizure severity showed higher variability among PILO rats (PILO: 50% animals had class 3 or higher vs. KA: 90% animals had class 1; Racine?s scale). PILO animals had a reduced number of wet-dog shake behaviors and shorter latency to SE onset as compared to KA rats. Electrophysiologically, we observed that high frequency oscillations (>150 Hz) occurred short after the injection of both drugs (15-40min before SE onset), as opposed to what is commonly reported to occur during the chronic phase of epilepsy in rodents. They were usually found within the first electrographic seizures. Finally, we have identified a distinct modular organization of paroxystic activity during the SE in each group, which consisted of blocks of nested rhythms. These findings thus suggest that PILO is more epileptogenic that KA and that these drugs produce distinct SE dynamics, which seem to be organized as periodically repeating modules of nested oscillations, modules of hyper synchrony with no nested oscillations and segments of asynchronous activity. Our data emphasizes the importance to conduct electrophysiological recordings during SE induction in order to better control individual brain responses. This can reduce variability during epileptogenesis and produce a more homogeneous model of chronic epilepsy.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-11-22T21:39:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MorganaMenezesNovaes_TESE.pdf: 3404460 bytes, checksum: e41e953d2b132254d0aebf805cdcb0ae (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-11-24T23:44:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MorganaMenezesNovaes_TESE.pdf: 3404460 bytes, checksum: e41e953d2b132254d0aebf805cdcb0ae (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-24T23:44:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MorganaMenezesNovaes_TESE.pdf: 3404460 bytes, checksum: e41e953d2b132254d0aebf805cdcb0ae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-25 / A sistematiza??o do yoga por Pata?jali divide o yoga em 8 conjuntos de pr?ticas, dentre elas os asanas, a medita??o e as pr?ticas respirat?rias, conhecidas como pranayama. Estudo recen-tes tem sugerido que a pr?tica de pranayama est? associada a efeitos positivos sobre quadros de estresse e ansiedade. Esta tese tem por objetivo avaliar o impacto da pr?tica do Bhastrika Pranayama sobre marcadores de ansiedade, afeto, discurso e imagem funcional por resson?n-cia magn?tica (fMRI, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) usando desenho controlado, randomizado de bra?os paralelos. Trinta adultos jovens saud?veis, e sem experi?ncia com o yoga, foram recrutados e avaliados por meio do invent?rio de ansiedade tra?o-estado (IDA-TE), da escala de afeto positivo e negativo (PANAS), da an?lise do discurso e da fMRI (tarefa de regula??o emocional, e resting state), antes e ap?s 4 semanas de pr?tica do Bhastrika Pra-nayama ou de atividades controle. Ap?s o treinamento observamos redu??o dos n?veis de an-siedade e de afeto negativo, e intera??o significativa no sinal da ?nsula anterior bilateral e c?n-gulo anterior direito. A an?lise de correla??o mostrou que ap?s a pr?tica do pranayama, os indiv?duos com maiores aumentos da atividade da am?gdala, e ?nsula bilateral foram os que menos reduziram o afeto negativo. Os dados de rs-fMRI revelaram redu??o significativa de conectividade funcional do c?rtex pr?-frontal ventrolateral (vlPFC) ? direita com c?rtex pr?-frontal dorsolateral (dlPFC) ? direita ap?s o treinamento. Correla??o entre dados de rs-fMRI e escala PANAS mostrou que entre os indiv?duos que fizeram o pranayama, os que mais reduzi-ram a conectividade entre ?nsula anterior ? direita com vlPFC bilateral foram os que mais re-duziram o afeto negativo. An?lise do discurso mostrou redu??o significativa na rela??o se-m?ntica entre os textos transcritos e a palavra ansiedade. N?o foram encontradas diferen?as nas estruturas do discurso. De forma geral, nossos resultados sugerem que a pr?tica do Bhas-trika Pranayama leva a mudan?as significativas de ansiedade e de afeto, que se mostraram acompanhadas por mudan?as na atividade e conectividade de estruturas cerebrais que partici-pam de processos de regula??o emocional. / The systematization of Yoga presented in the Yoga Sutras of Pata?jali, written around 400 CE, proposes an eight limb yoga system, also known as Ashtanga Yoga (ashta=eight, anga=limb), consisting of eight set of practices. Among them, the breathing practices, known as Pranayama, has been associated with positive effects on stress and anxiety. This thesis explores the impact of Bhastrika Pranayama training on markers of anxiety, affect, speech, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using a randomized controlled trial of two parallel arms. Thirty young healthy adults, na?ve to Yoga practices, were recruited and evalu-ated by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Speech Analysis and fMRI (emotional regulation task, and resting state-fMRI), before and after 4 weeks of training Bhastrika Pranayama or control activities. Results after bhastrika pranayama suggest reduction in both anxiety and negative affect, increased activity in bilateral anterior insula and right anterior cingulate cortex. Correlation analysis between fMRI signal during the emotional regulation protocol and PANAS scale showed that among individuals in pranayama group, individuals who most increased the activity in amygdala, right and left insula were those that less decreased negative affect. rs-fMRI results suggest decreased functional connectivity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) with right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) after pranayama. Correlation between rs-fMRI data and PANAS scale showed that among individuals in pranayama group, those who most decreased the connectivity between right anterior insula with right and left vlPFC were the individuals that most decreased negative affect. Speech analysis showed reduction in semantic properties when the word ?anxiety? was used as seed. No significant difference was found in speech structures after pranayama. In general, our results suggest that the practice of Bhastrika Pranayama leads to changes in anxiety and affect, which was accompanied by changes in the activity and connectivity of brain structures that participate in processes of emotional regulation.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-08-29T19:39:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelaFaustinoLacerdaDeSouza_DISSERT.pdf: 5684674 bytes, checksum: 3dacbe77213824eafb322509b6e0ab0c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-09-03T00:18:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelaFaustinoLacerdaDeSouza_DISSERT.pdf: 5684674 bytes, checksum: 3dacbe77213824eafb322509b6e0ab0c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-03T00:18:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RafaelaFaustinoLacerdaDeSouza_DISSERT.pdf: 5684674 bytes, checksum: 3dacbe77213824eafb322509b6e0ab0c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-28 / Estudos recentes t?m demonstrado que o reconhecimento da lateralidade de m?os em uma perspectiva de segunda pessoa engaja processos de imag?tica motora. No entanto, pouco se sabe sobre a atividade e contribui??o das regi?es sens?rio-motoras corticais nesse processo. O objetivo do presente estudo ? mostrar como a rota??o mental de est?mulos visuais de partes do corpo influenciam o processamento neural dessas regi?es atrav?s da modula??o da atividade oscilat?ria de grupos neuronais nas faixas alfa e beta. Para tanto, realizamos a an?lise da perturba??o espectral relacionada ao evento (ERSP) do registro eletroencefalogr?fico (EEG) de 20 sujeitos engajados no reconhecimento da lateralidade de m?os apresentadas em uma tela de computador. Os resultados mostram que a supress?o da amplitude das frequ?ncias alfa e beta foi maior nas regi?es sens?rio-motoras e que caracter?sticas do est?mulo (como orienta??o da m?o, vis?o, postura de dedos e lateralidade) s?o capazes de modular esses componentes oscilat?rios em diferentes regi?es, sugerindo etapas distintas para o processamento da tarefa cognitiva. / Recent studies demonstrated that during third-person handedness recognition the subject engages motor imagery processes. However, little is known about the functional aspects of sensorimotor regions? participation in this process. The present study aims to show how motor imagery of body parts during handedness judgment influences neural processing in these regions by modulating the oscillatory behavior of neuronal populations in both the alpha and beta frequencies. Therefore, we analyzed the event-related spectral perturbation of electroencephalography (EEG) recordings of 20 subjects engaged in handedness recognition of stimuli presented on a computer screen. The results revealed the supression of both alpha and beta EEG amplitude on sensorimotor regions and that characteristics of the stimulus (such as hand orientation, vision, posture fingers and laterality) were able to modulate these oscilatory components in distinct regions, suggesting different stages of task processing.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-03-10T21:38:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LuanaGabrielleDeFrancaFerreira_DISSERT.pdf: 3743895 bytes, checksum: 6586155eff1318ab76c3be9fd110f030 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-17T22:48:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 LuanaGabrielleDeFrancaFerreira_DISSERT.pdf: 3743895 bytes, checksum: 6586155eff1318ab76c3be9fd110f030 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-17T22:48:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LuanaGabrielleDeFrancaFerreira_DISSERT.pdf: 3743895 bytes, checksum: 6586155eff1318ab76c3be9fd110f030 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-10 / Diversos estudos revelam que nas ?ltimas d?cadas ocorreu uma diminui??o na dura??o do sono. Os compromissos sociais, como o trabalho e a escola, muitas vezes n?o est?o alinhados ao ?tempo biol?gico? dos indiv?duos. Somada a isso, observa-se uma menor for?a do zeitgeber causada pela menor exposi??o ? luz durante o dia e maior ? noite. Isso gera um d?bito cr?nico de sono que ? compensado nos dias livres, ocorrendo semanalmente uma restri??o e extens?o do sono denominada de jet lag social. A priva??o de sono vem sendo associada ? obesidade, risco cancer?geno e cardiovascular. Desta-forma, sugere-se que o sistema nervoso auton?mico seja um caminho que relaciona os problemas do sono ?s doen?as cardiovasculares. No entanto, al?m das evid?ncias demonstradas por pesquisas com uso de modelos de priva??o de sono de forma aguda e controlada, s?o necess?rios estudos investigando efeitos da priva??o do sono de forma cr?nica como ocorre no jet lag social. O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a influ?ncia do jet lag social em marcadores circadianos de atividade-repouso e card?acos em estudantes do Curso de Medicina. Trata-se de um estudo transversal e observacional realizado no Laborat?rio de Neurobiologia e Ritmicidade Biol?gica (LNRB) do Departamento de Fisiologia da UFRN. Participaram da pesquisa estudantes de medicina matriculados no 1? per?odo do curso da UFRN. Foram utilizados os seguintes instrumentos: Question?rio cronotipo de Munique (MCTQ); Question?rio para identifica??o de indiv?duos matutinos e vespertinos (MEQ ou HO); ?ndice de qualidade do sono de Pittsburgh; Escala de Sonol?ncia de Epworth; Act?metro; Cardiofrequenc?metro. Foram analisadas vari?veis de caracteriza??o do sono, n?o param?tricas (IV60, IS60, L5 e M10) e ?ndices card?acos no dom?nio do tempo, frequ?ncia (LF, HF, LF/HF) e n?o linear (SD1, SD2, SD1/SD2). Realizou-se an?lise estat?stica descritiva, comparativa e de correla??o com uso do programa SPSS vers?o 20. Participaram do estudo 41 estudantes, 48,8% (20) mulheres e 51,2% (21) homens, com 19,63 ? 2,07 anos. O jet lag social teve uma m?dia de 02:39h ? 00:55h, 82,9% (34) com jet lag social ? 1 hora e houve correla??o negativa com escore cronotipo de Munique evidenciando maior priva??o do sono em indiv?duos com tend?ncia ? vespertinidade. Qualidade do sono ruim foi detectada em 90,2% (37) (X 2 = 26,56, p < 0,001) e 56,1% (23) sonol?ncia diurna excessiva (X 2 = 0,61, p = 0,435). Observou-se diferen?a significativa dos valores de LFnu, HFnu e LF/HF entre os grupos de jet lag social < 2h e ? 2h e houve correla??o do jet lag social com LFnu (rs = 0,354, p = 0,023), HFnu (rs = - 0,354, p = 0,023) e LF/HF (rs = 0,355, p = 0,023). Verificou-se ainda associa??o negativa entre IV60 e ?ndices no dom?nio do tempo e n?o lineares. Sugere-se que a priva??o cr?nica de sono pode ter associa??o com maior atividade simp?tica promovendo aumento no risco cardiovascular. / Studies reveal that in recent decades a decrease in sleep duration has occurred. Social commitments, such as work and school are often not aligned to the "biological time" of individuals. Added to this, there is a reduced force of zeitgeber caused by less exposure to daylight and larger exposure to evenings. This causes a chronic sleep debt that is offset in a free days. Indeed, a restriction and extent of sleep called "social Jet lag" occurs weekly. Sleep deprivation has been associated to obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular risk. It is suggested that the autonomic nervous system is a pathway that connects sleep problems to cardiovascular diseases. However, beyond the evidence demonstrated by studies using models of acute and controlled sleep deprivation, studies are needed to investigate the effects of chronic sleep deprivation as it occurs in the social jet lag. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of social jet lag in circadian rest-activity markers and heart function in medical students. It is a cross-sectional, observational study conducted in the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Biological Rhythmicity (LNRB) at the Department of Physiology UFRN. Participated in the survey medical students enrolled in the 1st semester of their course at UFRN. Instruments for data collection: Munich Chronotype Questionnaire, Morningness Eveningness Questionnaire of Horne and ?stberg, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Actimeter; Heart rate monitor. Analysed were descriptive variables of sleep, nonparametric (IV60, IS60, L5 and M10) and cardiac indexes of time domain, frequency (LF, HF LF / HF) and nonlinear (SD1, SD2, SD1 / SD2). Descriptive, comparative and correlative statistical analysis was performed with SPSS software version 20. 41 students participated in the study, 48.8% (20) females and 51.2% (21) males, 19.63 ? 2.07 years. The social jet lag had an average of 02: 39h ? 00:55h, 82.9% (34) with social jet lag ? 1h and there was a negative correlation with the Munich chronotype score indicating greater sleep deprivation in subjects prone to eveningness. Poor sleep quality was detected in 90.2% (37) (X2 = 26.56, p <0.001) and 56.1% (23) excessive daytime sleepiness (X2 = 0.61, p = 0.435). Significant differences were observed in the values of LFnu, HFnu and LF / HF between the groups of social jet lag <2h and ? 2h and correlation of the social jet lag with LFnu (rs = 0.354, p = 0.023), HFnu (rs = - 0.354 , p = 0.023) and LF / HF (r = 0.355, p = 0.023). There was also a negative association between IV60 and indexes in the time domain and non-linear. It is suggested that chronic sleep deprivation may be associated with increased sympathetic activation promoting greater cardiovascular risk.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-07-06T20:38:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TiagoSiebertAltavini_TESE.pdf: 2131166 bytes, checksum: e6857312ffe2ac0d8a4cdc18238707e4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-07-08T17:47:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TiagoSiebertAltavini_TESE.pdf: 2131166 bytes, checksum: e6857312ffe2ac0d8a4cdc18238707e4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-08T17:47:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TiagoSiebertAltavini_TESE.pdf: 2131166 bytes, checksum: e6857312ffe2ac0d8a4cdc18238707e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-01-29 / A atividade cerebral espont?nea exibe padr?es que lembram o de coativa??o de conjuntos neuronais em resposta a est?mulos ou tarefas. Estes padr?es tem sido atribu?dos a arquitetura funcional do c?rebro, e.g. conex?es de longo alcance em patches (manchas, fragmentos). N?s investigamos diretamente a contribui??o destas conex?es em patches entre hemisf?rios para mapas espont?neos e evocados na ?rea 18 pr?xima a borda 17/18 de gatos. Registramos mapas com imageamento por votage-sensitive dye (VSD) e atividade despiking enquanto manipulamos o input interhemisf?rico pela desativa??o revers?vel das ?reas correspondentes contralaterais. Durante a desativa??o os mapas espont?neos continuaram sendo gerados com frequ?ncia e qualidade semelhante ao da rede intacta, mas um vi?s de orienta??es cardinais desapareceu. Neur?nios com prefer?ncia por orienta??es horizontais (HN) ou verticais (VN), ao contr?rio dos de prefer?ncia obl?qua, diminuiram sua atividade de repouso, no entanto, HN tiveram a atividade diminu?da mesmo quando estimulados visualmente. Conclu?mos que mapas espont?neos estruturados s?o primariamente gerados por conex?es t?lamo- e/ou intracorticais. Entretanto, conex?es de longo alcance pelo corpo caloso - como um prolongamento da rede de longo alcance intracortical - contribui para um vi?s cardinal, possivelmente porque estas conex?es s?o mais fortes ou mais frequentes entre neur?nios preferindo orienta??es horizontais e/ou cardinais. Estes contornos s?o mais f?ceis de perceber e aparecem com mais frequ?ncia no ambiente natural, cone x?es de longo alcance podem prover o c?rtex visual com um grid de opera??es probabil?sticas de agrupamento em uma cena visual maior. / In the primary visual cortex, neurons with similar physiological features are clustered together in columns extending through all six cortical layers. These columns form modular orientation preference maps. Long-range lateral fibers are associated to the structure of orientation maps since they do not connect columns randomly; they rather cluster in regular intervals and interconnect predominantly columns of neurons responding to similar stimulus features. Single orientation preference maps ? the joint activation of domains preferring the same orientation - were observed to emerge spontaneously and it was speculated whether this structured ongoing activation could be caused by the underlying patchy lateral connectivity. Since long-range lateral connections share many features, i.e. clustering, orientation selectivity, with visual inter-hemispheric connections (VIC) through the corpus callosum we used the latter as a model for long-range lateral connectivity. In order to address the question of how the lateral connectivity contributes to spontaneously generated maps of one hemisphere we investigated how these maps react to the deactivation of VICs originating from the contralateral hemisphere. To this end, we performed experiments in eight adult cats. We recorded voltage-sensitive dye (VSD) imaging and electrophysiological spiking activity in one brain hemisphere while reversible deactivating the other hemisphere with a cooling technique. In order to compare ongoing activity with evoked activity patterns we first presented oriented gratings as visual stimuli. Gratings had 8 different orientations distributed equally between 0? and 180?. VSD imaged frames obtained during ongoing activity conditions were then compared to the averaged evoked single orientation maps in three different states: baseline, cooling and recovery. Kohonen self-organizing maps were also used as a means of analysis without prior assumption (like the averaged single condition maps) on ongoing activity. We also evaluated if cooling had a differential effect on evoked and ongoing spiking activity of single units. We found that deactivating VICs caused no spatial disruption on the structure of either evoked or ongoing activity maps. The frequency with which a cardinally preferring (0? or 90?) map would emerge, however, decreased significantly for ongoing but not for evoked activity. The same result was found by training self-organizing maps with recorded data as input. Spiking activity of cardinally preferring units also decreased significantly for ongoing when compared to evoked activity. Based on our results we came to the following conclusions: 1) VICs are not a determinant factor of ongoing map structure. Maps continued to be spontaneously generated with the same quality, probably by a combination of ongoing activity from local recurrent connections, thalamocortical loop and feedback connections. 2) VICs account for a cardinal bias in the temporal sequence of ongoing activity patterns, i.e. deactivating VIC decreases the probability of cardinal maps to emerge spontaneously. 3) Inter- and intrahemispheric long-range connections might serve as a grid preparing primary visual cortex for likely junctions in a larger visual environment encompassing the two hemifields.