Activated cortical states: Experiments, analyses and models

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 101, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 99-109

  El Boustani, Sami ^a   Pospischil, Martin ^a   Rudolph Lilith, Michelle ^a   Destexhe, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cortex; High conductance state; Integrate and fire neurons; Neural networks; Poisson; Self organized criticality; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION;

EID: 36749028409     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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