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SUBMITTER: Saleem AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3094772 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saleem Aman B AB Chadderton Paul P Apergis-Schoute John J Harris Kenneth D KD Schultz Simon R SR
Journal of computational neuroscience 20100312 1-2
During anesthesia, slow-wave sleep and quiet wakefulness, neuronal membrane potentials collectively switch between de- and hyperpolarized levels, the cortical UP and DOWN states. Previous studies have shown that these cortical UP/DOWN states affect the excitability of individual neurons in response to sensory stimuli, indicating that a significant amount of the trial-to-trial variability in neuronal responses can be attributed to ongoing fluctuations in network activity. However, as intracellula ...[more]