Spontaneous low threshold spike bursting in awake humans is different in different lateral thalamic nuclei

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 281-288

  Ohara, S ^a   Taghva, A ^a   Kim, J H ^a   Lenz, F A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential burst; Essential tremor; Human thalamus; IPSP; Low threshold spike; Principal somatic sensory nucleus; Ventral lateral nucleus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS; THERMAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 34250005765     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0856-9     Document Type: Article

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