"Sensory Gating" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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The ability of the BRAIN to suppress neuronal responses to external sensory inputs, such as auditory and visual stimuli. Sensory filtering (or gating) allows humans to block out irrelevant, meaningless, or redundant stimuli.
| Descriptor ID |
D055139
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G11.561.794
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| Concept/Terms |
Sensory Gating- Sensory Gating
- Gating, Sensory
- Sensory Filtering
- Filtering, Sensory
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Exposure to HIV-1 Tat in brain impairs sensorimotor gating and activates microglia in limbic and extralimbic brain regions of male mice. Behav Brain Res. 2015 Sep 15; 291:209-218.