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ArticleNeural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society2011

Chemical synaptic and gap junctional interactions between principal neurons: partners in epileptogenesis.

Roger D Traub, Mark O Cunningham, Miles A Whittington

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Article in Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Roger D TraubDepartment of Physical Sciences, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA. rtraub@us.ibm.com
Mark O Cunningham
Miles A Whittington

Funding

Detailed Models of Network Bursts and OscillationsR01NS044133 · NINDS · SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER · PI TRAUB, ROGER D · 2002 to 2017
$3.9M
Medical Research Council G0701048NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS044133
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Field potential signals, corresponding to electrographic seizures in cortical structures, often contain two components, which sometimes appear to be separable and other times to be superimposed. The first component consists of low-amplitude very fast oscillations (VFO, >70-80 Hz); the second component consists of larger amplitude transients, lasting tens to hundreds of ms, and variously called population spikes, EEG spikes, or bursts--terms chosen in part because of the cellular correlates of the field events. To first approximation, the two components arise because of distinctive types of cellular interactions: gap junctions for VFO (a model of which is reviewed in the following), and recurrent synaptic excitation and/or inhibition for the transients. With in vitro studies of epileptic human neocortical tissue, it is possible to elicit VFO alone, or VFO superimposed on a large transient, but not a large transient without the VFO. If such observations prove to be general, they would imply that gap junction-mediated interactions are the primary factor in epileptogenesis. It appears to be the case then, that in the setting of seizure initiation (but not necessarily under physiological conditions), the gain of gap junction-mediated circuits can actually be larger than the gain in excitatory synaptic circuits.

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Models, NeurologicalAction PotentialsAnimalsBiological ClocksEpilepsyGap JunctionsHippocampusHumansIn Vitro TechniquesNerve NetNeuronsRatsSynapses

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