Neurons of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) are very sensitive to applied currents, firing at 10-20/s during spontaneous activity, but increasing to peak firing rates of 200/s with applied currents <0.5… (More)
Intrinsic heterogeneity in networks of interconnected cells has profound effects on synchrony and spike-time reliability of network responses. Projection neurons of the globus pallidus (GPe) are… (More)
We used phase resetting methods to predict firing patterns of rat subthalamic nucleus (STN) neurons when their rhythmic firing was densely perturbed by noise. We applied sequences of contiguous brief… (More)
1 population. 2 3 Running Head: Heterogeneity of Pallidal Neurons 4 5 Christopher A. Deister1, Ramana Dodla1, David Barraza1, Hitoshi Kita2 and Charles J. Wilson1 6 1 Department of Biology and… (More)
Synchrony among neurons is seen throughout the mammalian CNS, in particular within networks of GABAergic neurons. The globus pallidus (GP) consists of GABAergic neurons that project to neurons… (More)
Injecting white noise currents has been shown to increase mean firing rate in several types of neuron. This speed up is generally attributed to the fact that depolarizing currents on the tails of the… (More)