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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2017

Thalamic state control of cortical paired-pulse dynamics.

Clarissa J Whitmire, Daniel C Millard, Garrett B Stanley

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Clarissa J WhitmireWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Daniel C MillardWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Garrett B StanleyWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia garrett.stanley@bme.gatech.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2039-7706
Georgia Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) RenewalUL1TR000454 · NCATS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI STEPHENS, DAVID S · 2012 to 2016
$25.8M
Thalamocortical state control of tactile sensing: Mechanisms, Models, and BehaviorR01NS104928 · NINDS · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI STANLEY, GARRETT B. · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
In-vivo control of information flow by artificial stimulation: ephys and behaviorR01NS085447 · NINDS · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI STANLEY, GARRETT B. · 2013 to 2016
$1.2M
From Cells to Systems and Applications: Computational Neuroscience Training at EmT90DA032466 · NIDA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JAEGER, DIETER, STANLEY, GARRETT B. · 2011 to 2015
$817k
Controlling thalamic state for somatosensory information flow in thalamusF31NS089412 · NINDS · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WHITMIRE, CLARISSA J · 2014 to 2016
$129k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000454NIDA NIH HHS T90 DA032466NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS089412NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS085447NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104928
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensory stimulation drives complex interactions across neural circuits as information is encoded and then transmitted from one brain region to the next. In the highly interconnected thalamocortical circuit, these complex interactions elicit repeatable neural dynamics in response to temporal patterns of stimuli that provide insight into the circuit properties that generated them. Here, using a combination of in vivo voltage-sensitive dye (VSD) imaging of cortex, single-unit recording in thalamus, and optogenetics to manipulate thalamic state in the rodent vibrissa pathway, we probed the thalamocortical circuit with simple temporal patterns of stimuli delivered either to the whiskers on the face (sensory stimulation) or to the thalamus directly via electrical or optogenetic inputs (artificial stimulation). VSD imaging of cortex in response to whisker stimulation revealed classical suppressive dynamics, while artificial stimulation of thalamus produced an additional facilitation dynamic in cortex not observed with sensory stimulation. Thalamic neurons showed enhanced bursting activity in response to artificial stimulation, suggesting that bursting dynamics may underlie the facilitation mechanism we observed in cortex. To test this experimentally, we directly depolarized the thalamus, using optogenetic modulation of the firing activity to shift from a burst to a tonic mode. In the optogenetically depolarized thalamic state, the cortical facilitation dynamic was completely abolished. Together, the results obtained here from simple probes suggest that thalamic state, and ultimately thalamic bursting, may play a key role in shaping more complex stimulus-evoked dynamics in the thalamocortical pathway. NEW & NOTEWORTHY: For the first time, we have been able to utilize optogenetic modulation of thalamic firing modes combined with optical imaging of cortex in the rat vibrissa system to directly test the role of thalamic state in shaping cortical response properties.

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Action PotentialsAfferent PathwaysAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsChannelrhodopsinsElectric StimulationFemaleLuminescent ProteinsNeuronsNonlinear DynamicsOptogeneticsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyRed Fluorescent ProteinSomatosensory CortexThalamusChannelrhodopsinsLuminescent ProteinsRed Fluorescent Proteincortical activationdynamicsoptogeneticsthalamic statevibrissa

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PMID27760816
PMCPMC5209547
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