Local field potentials get funny.
Local field potentials get funny.
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局部场潜力变得有趣。
DOI:
10.1113/jp272673
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发表时间:
2016-07-01
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Nolan MF
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Nolan MF
The local field potential (LFP) is widely used experimentally to index cortical activity and information processing. Classic studies using recordings of LFPs include the first demonstration of long-term potentiation (Bliss & Lomo, 1973) and descriptions of oscillatory brain states (Buzsaki & Draguhn, 2004), while more recent applications extend as far as control of brain–machine interfaces by indirect monitoring of single neurone activity (Hall et al. 2014). The power of LFP recordings comes from both their high temporal and spatial resolution, and the relative ease with which they can be obtained.Surprisingly, given their long-standing importance, it is only relatively recently that the ionic mechanisms that determine the waveform of cortical LFPs have begun to be extensively scrutinized (Buzsaki et al. 2012). For a long time LFPs were often assumed to primarily reflect currents through synaptic receptors in the membrane of pyramidal cells. However, membrane currents are also carried by voltage-gated ion channels. These active membrane conductances are responsible for generation of action potentials and for integration of synaptic responses. Recent modelling studies suggest important influences on the LFP of voltagegated Na+ and K+ channels that mediate action potential firing (Reimannet al. 2013), but the contributions of ion channels that mediate synaptic integration at membrane potentials below the action potential threshold have remained unclear.