Publications

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For an overview of our thinking about eyeblink conditioning, see this review (this book chapter was converted to PDF format using OCR, sorry for possible typos):

• Bracha V and Bloedel JR. The multiple pathway model of circuits subserving the classical conditioning of withdrawal reflexes. In: Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebrates. Bloedel JR, Ebner TJ, Wise SP (Eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp.175-204.   

Other papers:

• Nilaweera WU, Zenitsky GD, Bracha V.  Inactivation of the brachium conjunctivum prevents extinction of classically conditioned eyeblinks. Brain Res , 2005, 1045 : 175-84 .
  
  
• Aksenov D, Serdyukova N, Bloedel J, Bracha V.  Glutamate neurotransmission in the cerebellar interposed nuclei: Involvement in classically conditioned eyeblinks and neuronal activity.  J Neurophysiol , 2005, 93 : 44-52.
  
  
• Aksenov D, Serdyukova N, Irwin K, Bracha V.  GABA neurotransmission in the cerebellar interposed nuclei: Involvement in classically conditioned eyeblinks and neuronal activity.  J Neurophysiol, 2004, 91: 719-27.
  
  
• Shimansky Y, Wang JJ, Bauer RA, Bracha V, Bloedel JR, On-line compensation for perturbations of a reaching movement is cerebellar dependent: support for the task dependency hypothesis. Exp Brain Res, 2004, 155: 156-72.  
  
  
• Bracha V,     Role of the cerebellum in eyeblink conditioning. Prog Brain Res, 2004, 143: 331-9.   
  
  
• Bracha V, Nilaweera W, Zenitsky G, Irwin K. Video recording system for the measurement of eyelid movements during classical conditioning of the eyeblink response in the rabbit. J Neurosci Methods, 2003, 125:173-81.   
  
  
• Bracha V, Zhao L, Irwin KB, Bloedel JR. Intermediate cerebellum and conditioned eyeblinks: parallel involvement in eyeblinks and tonic eyelid closure. Exp Brain Res. 2001, 136:41-49.   
  
  
• Rand MK, Shimansky Y, Stelmach GE, Bracha V, Bloedel JR. Effects of accuracy constraints on reach-to-grasp movements in cerebellar patients. Exp Brain Res. 2000, 135(2):179-88.   
  
  
• Bracha V, Zhao L, Irwin KB, Bloedel JR. The human cerebellum and associative learning: dissociation between the acquisition, retention and extinction of conditioned eyeblinks. Brain Res. 2000, 31;860(1-2):87-94.
  
  
• Zhao L, Irwin KB, Bloedel JR, Bracha V. The kinesthetic threat eyeblink: a new type of anticipatory eyeblink response. Brain Res. 1999, 839(1):100-8.
  
  
• Bracha V, Kolb FP, Irwin KB, Bloedel JR. Inactivation of interposed nuclei in the cat: classically conditioned withdrawal reflexes, voluntary limb movements and the action primitive hypothesis. Exp Brain Res. 1999;126(1):77-92.
  
  
• Bloedel JR, Bracha V. Current concepts of climbing fiber function. Anat Rec. 1998; 253(4):118-26.
  
  
• Kagerer FA, Bracha V, Wunderlich DA, Stelmach GE, Bloedel JR. Ataxia reflected in the simulated movements of patients with cerebellar lesions. Exp Brain Res. 1998;1 21(2):125-34.   
  
  
• Bracha V, Irwin KB, Webster ML, Wunderlich DA, Stachowiak MK, Bloedel JR. Microinjections of anisomycin into the intermediate cerebellum during learning affect the acquisition of classically conditioned responses in the rabbit. Brain Res. 1998; 788(1-2):169-78.   
  
  
• Wang JJ, Shimansky Y, Bracha V, Bloedel JR. Effects of cerebellar nuclear inactivation on the learning of a complex forelimb movement in cats. J Neurophysiol. 1998; 79(5):2447-59.   
  
  
• Milak MS, Shimansky Y, Bracha V, Bloedel JR. Effects of inactivating individual cerebellar nuclei on the performance and retention of an operantly conditioned forelimb movement. J Neurophysiol. 1997; 78(2):939-59.   
  
  
• Shimansky Y, Saling M, Wunderlich DA, Bracha V, Stelmach GE, Bloedel JR. Impaired capacity of cerebellar patients to perceive and learn two-dimensional shapes based on kinesthetic cues. Learn Mem. 1997, 4(1):36-48.
  
  
• Bloedel JR, Bracha V. Duality of cerebellar motor and cognitive functions. Int Rev Neurobiol. 1997; 41:613-34.
  
  
• Bracha V, Zhao L, Wunderlich DA, Morrissy SJ, Bloedel JR. Patients with cerebellar lesions cannot acquire but are able to retain conditioned eyeblink reflexes. Brain. 1997; 120 ( Pt 8):1401-13.   
  
  
• Kolb FP, Irwin KB, Bloedel JR, Bracha V. Conditioned and unconditioned forelimb reflex systems in the cat: involvement of the intermediate cerebellum. Exp Brain Res. 1997; 114(2):255-70.   
  
  
• Bloedel JR, Bracha V, Milak M, Shimansky Y. Cerebellar contributions to the acquisition and execution of learned reflex and volitional movements. Prog Brain Res. 1997;114:499-509.
  
  
• Bloedel JR, Bracha V. On the cerebellum, cutaneomuscular reflexes, movement control and the elusive engrams of memory. Behav Brain Res. 1995; 68(1):1-44.
  
  
• Milak MS, Bracha V, Bloedel JR. Relationship of simultaneously recorded cerebellar nuclear neuron discharge to the acquisition of a complex, operantly conditioned forelimb movement in cats. Exp Brain Res. 1995;105(2):325-30.
  
  
• Bracha V, Webster ML, Winters NK, Irwin KB, Bloedel JR. Effects of muscimol inactivation of the cerebellar interposed-dentate nuclear complex on the performance of the nictitating membrane response in the rabbit. Exp Brain Res. 1994;100(3):453-68.
  
  
• Bloedel JR, Bracha V, Larson PS. Real time operations of the cerebellar cortex. Can J Neurol Sci. 1993; 20 Suppl 3:S7-18.
  
  
• Bracha V, Stewart SL, Bloedel JR. The temporary inactivation of the red nucleus affects performance of both conditioned and unconditioned nictitating membrane responses in the rabbit. Exp Brain Res. 1993;94(2):225-36.
  
  
• Irwin KB, Craig AD, Bracha V, Bloedel JR. Distribution of c-fos expression in brainstem neurons associated with conditioning and pseudo-conditioning of the rabbit nictitating membrane reflex. Neurosci Lett. 1992;148(1-2):71-5.
  
  
• Bracha V, Wu JZ, Cartwright S, Bloedel JR. Selective involvement of the spinal trigeminal nucleus in the conditioned nictitating membrane reflex of the rabbit. Brain Res. 1991; 556(2):317-20.
  
  
• Bloedel JR, Bracha V, Kelly TM, Wu JZ. Substrates for motor learning. Does the cerebellum do it all? Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1991;627:305-18.
  
  
• Valouskova V, Bracha V, Bures J, Hernandez-Mesa N, Macias-Gonzales R, Mazurova Y, Nemecek S. Unilateral striatal grafts induce behavioral and electrophysiological asymmetry in rats with bilateral kainate lesions of the caudate nucleus. Behav Neurosci. 1990; 104(5):671-80.
  
  
• Bracha V, Zhuravin IA, Bures J. The reaching reaction in the rat: a part of the digging pattern? Behav Brain Res. 1990; 36(1-2):53-64.
  
  
• Bures J and Bracha V.  The control of movements by the motor cortex.  In: The Cerebral Cortex of the Rat.  Kolb, B. and Tees, R.C. (eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990,  pp. 213-238.
  
  
• Greenshaw AJ, Aleksanyan ZA, Kundu SN, Bracha V, Bures J. A response-specific conditioned aversion to rewarding hypothalamic stimulation in rats. Brain Res. 1985;339(1):130-5.
  
  
• Brozek G, Buresova O, Bracha V, Bures J. Substitution of natural conditioned and unconditioned stimuli by artificial stimuli does not prevent acquisition of conditioned taste aversion in rats. Physiol Bohemoslov. 1985;34 Suppl:13-6.
  
  
• Storozhuk VM, Bracha V, Brozek G, Bures J. Unit activity of motor cortex during acoustically signalled reaching in rats. Behav Brain Res. 1984;12(3):317-26.