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Contreras, Marco; Billeke, Pablo; Vicencio, Sergio; Madrid, Carlos; Perdomo, Guetón; González, Marcela; Torrealba, Fernando (2012)Drug craving critically depends on the function of the interoceptive insular cortex, and may be triggered by contextual cues. However, the role of the insula in the long-term memory linking context with drug craving remains ...
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Torrealba, Fernando; Riveros, Maria E.; Contreras, Marco; Valdes, Jose L. (2012)Brain histamine may affect a variety of different behavioral and physiological functions; however, its role in promoting wakefulness has overshadowed its other important functions. Here, we review evidence indicating that ...
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Aguilar Rivera, Marcelo; Kim, Sanggyun; Coleman, Todd P.; Maldonado, Pedro E.; Torrealba, Fernando (Nature, 2020)The insular cortex plays a central role in the perception and regulation of bodily needs and emotions. Its modular arrangement, corresponding with different sensory modalities, denotes a complex organization, and reveals ...
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Torres Farfán, Claudia; Richter, Hans G.; Rojas García, Pedro; Vergara, Marcela; Forcelledo, María Luisa; Valladares Boasi, Luis; Torrealba, Fernando; Valenzuela, Guillermo J.; Serón Ferré, María (2003)The pineal hormone melatonin participates in circadian, seasonal, and reproductive physiology. The presence of melatonin binding sites in human brain and peripheral tissues is well documented. However, in the mammalian ...
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Pinto Hamuy, Teresa; Montero, Vicente M.; Torrealba, Fernando (2004)The primary visual cortex of rats is surrounded laterally (in Oc2L) and medially (in Oc2M) by several peristriate visual areas. Previous studies from our laboratory demonstrated that bilateral lesions in Oc2L result in ...
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Ocampo Garcés, Adrián; Ibáñez, Francisco; Perdomo, Guetón; Torrealba, Fernando (2011)The 24-h distribution of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is known to be deeply reshaped among albino rats with neurotoxic lesions in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) or among rodent models of human narcolepsy-cataplexy, with ...
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Montero, Vicente M.; Rojas, Arístides; Torrealba, Fernando (1973)
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Casanova, José Patricio; Aguilar-Rivera, Marcelo; Rodríguez, María de los Ángeles; Coleman, Todd P.; Torrealba, Fernando (American Physiological Society, 2018)© 2018 American Physiological Society. All rights reserved. The interoceptive insular cortex is known to be involved in the perception of bodily states and emotions. Increasing evidence points to an additional role for the ...
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Valdés, José Luis; Sánchez, Cristián; Riveros, María Eugenia; Blandina, Patrizio; Contreras, Marco; Farías, Paula; Torrealba, Fernando (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010)Obtaining food, shelter or water, or finding a mating partner are examples of motivated behaviors, which are essential to preserve the species. The full expression of such behaviors requires a high but optimal arousal ...