BACKGROUND: The neocortex is the most common target of subdural electrotherapy and
noninvasive brain stimulation modalities, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) …

An important role for the neural extracellular matrix in modulating cortical activity-dependent
synaptic plasticity has been established by a number of recent studies. However, …

Previous experimental studies of both cortical barrel and thalamic barreloid neuron
responses in rodent somatosensory cortex have indicated an active role for barrel circuitry in …

Neocortical neurons in awake, behaving animals can generate high-frequency (>300 Hz)
bursts of action potentials, either in single bursts or in a repetitive manner. Intracellular …

1. Extracellular single-unit recordings and controlled whisker stimuli were used to compare
response properties of cells in the barreloids of the ventral posterior medial nucleus of the …

Beginning from a biologically based integrate and fire model of a rat whisker barrel, we employ
semirigorous techniques to reduce the system to a simple set of equations, similar to the …

In the whisker-barrel system, layer IV excitatory neurons respond preferentially to high-velocity
deflections of their principal whisker, and these responses are inhibited by deflections of …

1. Carbon fiber multibarrel glass microelectrodes were used to record extracellular single-unit
activity during microiontophoretic application of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) or …

In humans, the developmental origins of interneurons in the third trimester of pregnancy and
the timing of completion of interneuron neurogenesis have remained unknown. Here, we …

The reciprocal connections between primary motor (M1) and primary somatosensory cortices
(S1) are hypothesized to play a crucial role in the ability to update motor plans in response …