Trial-to-trial correlation between thalamic sensory response and global EEG activity

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 826-837

  Katz, Yonatan ^a   Okun, Michael ^a,b   Lampl, Ilan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Juxtacellular recordings; Sprague Dawley rats; VPM; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS POSTEROMEDIAL VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84858864341     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08006.x     Document Type: Article

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