Single-column thalamocortical network model exhibiting gamma oscillations, sleep spindles, and epileptogenic bursts

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2194-2232

  Traub, Roger D ^a   Contreras, Diego ^b   Cunningham, Mark O ^c   Murray, Hilary ^c   LeBeau, Fiona E N ^c   Roopun, Anita ^c   Bibbig, Andrea ^a   Wilent, W Bryant ^b   Higley, Michael J ^b   Whittington, Miles A ^c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; DENDRITE; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SEIZURE; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPIKE WAVE; STELLATE CELL; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SLEEP; THALAMUS;

EID: 20144369542     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00983.2004     Document Type: Article

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