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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Multistable properties of human subthalamic nucleus neurons in Parkinson's disease.

Jeremy W Chopek, Hans Hultborn, Robert M Brownstone

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Jeremy W ChopekDepartment of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, WC1N 3BG London, United Kingdom.
Hans HultbornDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
Robert M BrownstoneDepartment of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, WC1N 3BG London, United Kingdom; r.brownstone@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-5135-2725

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Abstract

To understand the function and dysfunction of neural circuits, it is necessary to understand the properties of the neurons participating in the behavior, the connectivity between these neurons, and the neuromodulatory status of the circuits at the time they are producing the behavior. Such knowledge of human neural circuits is difficult, at best, to obtain. Here, we study firing properties of human subthalamic neurons, using microelectrode recordings and microstimulation during awake surgery for Parkinson's disease. We demonstrate that low-amplitude, brief trains of microstimulation can lead to persistent changes in neuronal firing behavior including switching between firing rates, entering silent periods, or firing several bursts then entering a silent period. We suggest that these multistable states reflect properties of finite state machines and could have implications for the function of circuits involving the subthalamic nucleus. Furthermore, understanding these states could lead to therapeutic strategies aimed at regulating the transitions between states.

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AdultAgedDeep Brain StimulationFemaleHumansMaleMicroelectrodesMiddle AgedNeuronsParkinson DiseaseSubthalamic Nucleusdeep brain stimulationfinite state machinesmicrostimulationmultistabilityplateau potentials

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PMID31712414
PMCPMC6883794

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