Irregular spiking of pyramidal neurons organizes as scale-invariant neuronal avalanches in the awake state

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue JULY 2015, 2015, Pages 1-25

  Bellay, Timothy ^a   Klaus, Andreas ^a   Seshadri, Saurav ^a   Plenz, Dietmar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HABITUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84937403689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.07224     Document Type: Article

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