"Superior Colliculi" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The anterior pair of the quadrigeminal bodies which coordinate the general behavioral orienting responses to visual stimuli, such as whole-body turning, and reaching.
| Descriptor ID |
D013477
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.132.659.800.816
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| Concept/Terms |
Superior Colliculi- Superior Colliculi
- Colliculi, Superior
- Colliculus, Superior
- Tectum, Optic
- Optic Tectum
- Optic Tectums
- Tectums, Optic
- Superior Colliculus
- Anterior Colliculus
- Colliculus, Anterior
- Optic Lobe, Mammalian
- Mammalian Optic Lobe
- Mammalian Optic Lobes
- Optic Lobes, Mammalian
Optic Lobe, Human- Optic Lobe, Human
- Human Optic Lobe
- Human Optic Lobes
- Optic Lobes, Human
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| 1995 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Superior Colliculi" by people in Profiles.
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Superior colliculus bidirectionally modulates choice activity in frontal cortex. Nat Commun. 2023 11 14; 14(1):7358.
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Fully autonomous mouse behavioral and optogenetic experiments in home-cage. Elife. 2021 05 04; 10.
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Depth relationships and measures of tissue thickness in dorsal midbrain. Hum Brain Mapp. 2020 12 15; 41(18):5083-5096.
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Sodium nitroprusside prevents the detrimental effects of glucose on the neurovascular unit and behaviour in zebrafish. Dis Model Mech. 2019 09 25; 12(9).
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Polar-angle representation of saccadic eye movements in human superior colliculus. Neuroimage. 2018 05 01; 171:199-208.
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Evaluation of spiral acquisition variants for functional imaging of human superior colliculus at 3T field strength. Magn Reson Med. 2018 04; 79(4):1931-1940.
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Postembryonic Fish Brain Proliferation Zones Exhibit Neuroepithelial-Type Gene Expression Profile. Stem Cells. 2017 06; 35(6):1505-1518.
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Endogenous attention signals evoked by threshold contrast detection in human superior colliculus. J Neurosci. 2014 Jan 15; 34(3):892-900.
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Basal ganglia circuits for reward value-guided behavior. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2014; 37:289-306.
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Robust representation of stable object values in the oculomotor Basal Ganglia. J Neurosci. 2012 Nov 21; 32(47):16917-32.