scholarly journals h-Type Membrane Current Shapes the Local Field Potential from Populations of Pyramidal Neurons

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (26) ◽  
pp. 6011-6024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torbjørn V. Ness ◽  
Michiel W.H. Remme ◽  
Gaute T. Einevoll
2017 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 3345-3359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel C. Wright ◽  
Mahmood S. Hoseini ◽  
Tansel Baran Yasar ◽  
Ralf Wessel

Cortical activity contributes significantly to the high variability of sensory responses of interconnected pyramidal neurons, which has crucial implications for sensory coding. Yet, largely because of technical limitations of in vivo intracellular recordings, the coupling of a pyramidal neuron’s synaptic inputs to the local cortical activity has evaded full understanding. Here we obtained excitatory synaptic conductance ( g) measurements from putative pyramidal neurons and local field potential (LFP) recordings from adjacent cortical circuits during visual processing in the turtle whole brain ex vivo preparation. We found a range of g-LFP coupling across neurons. Importantly, for a given neuron, g-LFP coupling increased at stimulus onset and then relaxed toward intermediate values during continued visual stimulation. A model network with clustered connectivity and synaptic depression reproduced both the diversity and the dynamics of g-LFP coupling. In conclusion, these results establish a rich dependence of single-neuron responses on anatomical, synaptic, and emergent network properties. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Cortical neurons are strongly influenced by the networks in which they are embedded. To understand sensory processing, we must identify the nature of this influence and its underlying mechanisms. Here we investigate synaptic inputs to cortical neurons, and the nearby local field potential, during visual processing. We find a range of neuron-to-network coupling across cortical neurons. This coupling is dynamically modulated during visual processing via biophysical and emergent network properties.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Till S. Hartmann ◽  
Sruti Raja ◽  
Stephen G. Lomber ◽  
Richard T. Born

AbstractThe local field potential (LFP) is generally thought to be dominated by synaptic activity within a few hundred microns of the recording electrode. The sudden onset of a visual stimulus causes a large downward deflection of the LFP recorded in primary visual cortex, known as a visually evoked potential (VEP), followed by rhythmic oscillations in the gamma range (30-80 Hz) that are often in phase with action potentials of nearby neurons. By inactivating higher visual areas that send feedback projections to V1, we produced a large decrease in amplitude of the VEP, and a strong attenuation of gamma rhythms in both the LFP and multi-unit activity, despite an overall increase in neuronal spike rates. Our results argue that much of the recurrent, rhythmic activity measured in V1 is strongly gated by feed-back from higher areas, consistent with models of coincidence detection that result in burst firing by layer 5 pyramidal neurons.


2013 ◽  
Vol 133 (8) ◽  
pp. 1493-1500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryuji Kano ◽  
Kenichi Usami ◽  
Takahiro Noda ◽  
Tomoyo I. Shiramatsu ◽  
Ryohei Kanzaki ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 380
Author(s):  
M.A.J. Lourens ◽  
M.F. Contarino ◽  
R. Verhagen ◽  
P. van den Munckhof ◽  
P.R. Schuurman ◽  
...  

1993 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 1940-1947 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. D. Rhines ◽  
P. G. Sokolove ◽  
J. Flores ◽  
D. W. Tank ◽  
A. Gelperin

1. The olfactory processing network in the procerebral (PC) lobe of the terrestrial mollusk Limax maximus exhibits a coherent oscillation of local field potential that is modulated by odor input. To understand the cellular basis of this oscillation, we developed a cell culture preparation of isolated PC neurons and studied the responses of isolated cells to stimulation with neurotransmitters known to be present in the PC lobe. 2. The distribution of PC soma diameters suggests at least two different populations of neurons. Approximately 95% of isolated cells had soma diameters of 7-8 microns, with the remaining cells having larger diameters (10-15 microns). 3. Extracellular measurements of action potentials and optical measurements of intracellular calcium concentrations in fura-2-loaded cells were made. Serotonin and dopamine excited PC neurons and promoted transitions from steady to bursty activity. Both amines elicited increases in intracellular calcium, presumably concomitant with the increase in action-potential frequency. 4. Glutamate suppressed action-potential firing and reduced intracellular calcium. This effect was seen most clearly when glutamate was applied to cells excited by high potassium medium. Quisqualate is an effective glutamate agonist in this system, whereas kainate is not. 5. Combined with anatomic and biochemical data and with studies of the effects of these neurotransmitters on the oscillating local field potential of the intact PC network, the data from isolated PC neurons are consistent with the hypothesis that dopamine and serotonin modulate network dynamics, whereas glutamate is involved in generating the basic oscillation of local field potential in the PC. 6. The optical studies of fura-2-loaded cells showed that several treatments that increase the rate of action-potential production lead to elevations in intracellular calcium. Optical studies of intracellular calcium may be useful for multisite measurements of activity in the intact, oscillating PC lobe network.


2013 ◽  
Vol 109 (11) ◽  
pp. 2732-2738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias B. Issa ◽  
Xiaoqin Wang

During sleep, changes in brain rhythms and neuromodulator levels in cortex modify the properties of individual neurons and the network as a whole. In principle, network-level interactions during sleep can be studied by observing covariation in spontaneous activity between neurons. Spontaneous activity, however, reflects only a portion of the effective functional connectivity that is activated by external and internal inputs (e.g., sensory stimulation, motor behavior, and mental activity), and it has been shown that neural responses are less correlated during external sensory stimulation than during spontaneous activity. Here, we took advantage of the unique property that the auditory cortex continues to respond to sounds during sleep and used external acoustic stimuli to activate cortical networks for studying neural interactions during sleep. We found that during slow-wave sleep (SWS), local (neuron-neuron) correlations are not reduced by acoustic stimulation remaining higher than in wakefulness and rapid eye movement sleep and remaining similar to spontaneous activity correlations. This high level of correlations during SWS complements previous work finding elevated global (local field potential-local field potential) correlations during sleep. Contrary to the prediction that slow oscillations in SWS would increase neural correlations during spontaneous activity, we found little change in neural correlations outside of periods of acoustic stimulation. Rather, these findings suggest that functional connections recruited in sound processing are modified during SWS and that slow rhythms, which in general are suppressed by sensory stimulation, are not the sole mechanism leading to elevated network correlations during sleep.


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