Neurotransmitter actions in the thalamus and cerebral cortex and their role in neuromodulation of thalamocortical activity

DA McCormick - Progress in neurobiology, 1992 - Elsevier
3.3. Electrophysiological basis of tonic firing in thalamic relay neurons 3.4. High frequency
(30-50 Hz) rhythms in thalamic neurons 3.5. Functional consequences of …

Pathophysiological mechanisms of genetic absence epilepsy in the rat

L Danober, C Deransart, A Depaulis, M Vergnes… - Progress in …, 1998 - Elsevier
Generalized non-convulsive absence seizures are characterized by the occurrence of
synchronous and bilateral spike and wave discharges (SWDs) on the electroencephalogram …

Cortical map reorganization enabled by nucleus basalis activity

MP Kilgard, MM Merzenich - Science, 1998 - science.org
Little is known about the mechanisms that allow the cortex to selectively improve the neural
representations of behaviorally important stimuli while ignoring irrelevant stimuli. Diffuse …

Reshaping the cortical motor map by unmasking latent intracortical connections

KM Jacobs, JP Donoghue - Science, 1991 - science.org
The primary motor cortex (MI) contains a map organized so that contralateral limb or facial
movements are elicited by electrical stimulation within separate medial to lateral MI regions …

Selective cholinergic modulation of cortical GABAergic cell subtypes

Y Kawaguchi - Journal of neurophysiology, 1997 - journals.physiology.org
Kawaguchi, Yasuo. Selective cholinergic modulation of cortical GABAergic cell subtypes. J.
Neurophysiol. 78: 1743–1747, 1997. Acetylcholine from the basal forebrain and γ …

Cholinergic blockade reduces theta-gamma phase amplitude coupling and speed modulation of theta frequency consistent with behavioral effects on encoding

EL Newman, SN Gillet, JR Climer… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Large-scale neural activation dynamics in the hippocampal-entorhinal circuit local field
potential, observable as theta and gamma rhythms and coupling between these rhythms, is …

Local infusion of scopolamine into intraparietal cortex slows covert orienting in rhesus monkeys

MC Davidson, RT Marrocco - Journal of neurophysiology, 2000 - journals.physiology.org
There is accumulating evidence to suggest that cholinergic neurotransmission may play an
important role in visuospatial attention, but the brain sites at which acetylcholine modulates …

Differential cholinergic innervation within functional subdivisions of the human cerebral cortex: a choline acetyltransferase study

MM Mesulam, LB Hersh, DC Mash… - Journal of Comparative …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of cholinergic fibers in the human brain was investigated with choline
acetyltransferase immunocytochemistry in 35 cytoarchitectonic subdivisions of the cerebral …

Nucleus basalis stimulation facilitates thalamocortical synaptic transmission in the rat auditory cortex

R Metherate, JH Ashe - Synapse, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleus basalis (NB) neurons are a primary source of neocortical acetylcholine (ACh) and
likely contribute to mechanisms of neocortical activation. However, the functions of …

Cholinergic systems in the rat brain: IV. Descending projections of the pontomesencephalic tegmentum

NJ Woolf, LL Butcher - Brain research bulletin, 1989 - Elsevier
Descending projections from cholinergic neurons in the pedunculopontine and laterodorsal
tegmental nuclei, collectively referred to as the pontomesencephalotegmental (PMT) …