Coding of stimulus frequency by latency in thalamic networks through the interplay of GABAB-mediated feedback and stimulus shape

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1735-1750

  Golomb, David ^a,b   Ahissar, Ehud ^c   Kleinfeld, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONDUCTANCE; EXPERIMENTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; INHIBITION KINETICS; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REACTION TIME; SENSORY NERVE; TOUCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDBACK; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33645977495     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00734.2005     Document Type: Article

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