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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2018

Thalamocortical Communication in the Awake Mouse Visual System Involves Phase Synchronization and Rhythmic Spike Synchrony at High Gamma Frequencies.

Samuel S McAfee, Yu Liu, Mukesh Dhamala, Detlef H Heck

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Samuel S McAfeeDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.
Yu LiuDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.
Mukesh DhamalaDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Detlef H HeckDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.
University of Tennessee Health Science Center · USGeorgia State University · US

Funding

Coordination of orofacial and respiratory movementsR01NS060887 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI HECK, DETLEF H · 2009 to 2012
$1.3M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the neocortex, communication between neurons is heavily influenced by the activity of the surrounding network, with communication efficacy increasing when population patterns are oscillatory and coherent. Less is known about whether coherent oscillations are essential for conveyance of thalamic input to the neocortex in awake animals. Here we investigated whether visual-evoked oscillations and spikes in the primary visual cortex (V1) were aligned with those in the visual thalamus (dLGN). Using simultaneous recordings of visual-evoked activity in V1 and dLGN we demonstrate that thalamocortical communication involves synchronized local field potential oscillations in the high gamma range (50-90 Hz) which correspond uniquely to precise dLGN-V1 spike synchrony. These results provide evidence of a role for high gamma oscillations in mediating thalamocortical communication in the visual pathway of mice, analogous to beta oscillations in primates.

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gamma oscillationshigh gammamouseneuronal synchronizationvisual system

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PMID30524224
PMCPMC6262025
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