Inhibition in the awake cortex
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Inhibition determines membrane potential dynamics and controls action potential generation in awake and sleeping cat cortex.
Intracellular recordings of cortical neurons in awake cat and monkey show a depolarized state, sustained firing, and intense subthreshold synaptic activity. It is not known what conductance dynamics underlie such activity and how neurons process information in such highly stochastic states. Here, we combine intracellular recordings in awake and naturally sleeping cats with computational models ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Neuroscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1471-003X,1471-0048
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3413