Neuronal avalanches are diverse and precise activity patterns that are stable for many hours in cortical slice cultures

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 5216-5229

  Beggs, John M ^a,b   Plenz, Dietmar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Avalanche; Cortical network; Information storage; Memory; Multielectrode array; Organotypic culture; Spontaneous activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MEMORY; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2642572763     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0540-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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