Neuronal avalanches in spontaneous activity in vivo

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3312-3322

  Hahn, Gerald ^a,b   Petermann, Thomas ^c   Havenith, Martha N ^a   Yu, Shan ^a,c   Singer, Wolf ^a,d   Plenz, Dietmar ^c   Nikolić, Danko ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Unite de Neurosciences Integratives et Computationnelles   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL CAT; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANIMALS; CATS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MICROELECTRODES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77957577185     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00953.2009     Document Type: Article

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