BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE I studied the mechanism of postischemic neuronal degeneration in the hippocampus by an electrophysiological method. METHODS Sequential changes of field potentials evoked by perforant path stimulation in the dentate gyrus and the CA1 region of the hippocampus were evaluated in spontaneously hypertensive rats up to 7 days after transient global ischemia induced by bilater...

Some sensory tasks in the nervous system require highly precise spike trains to be generated in the presence of intrinsic neuronal noise. Collective enhancement of precision (CEP) can occur when spike trains of many neurons are pooled together into a more precise population discharge. We study CEP in a network of N model neurons connected by recurrent excitation. Each neuron is driven by a peri...

Understanding how neural and behavioral timescales interact to influence cortical activity and stimulus coding is an important issue in sensory neuroscience. In air-breathing animals, voluntary changes in respiratory frequency alter the temporal patterning olfactory input. In the olfactory bulb, these behavioral timescales are reflected in the temporal properties of mitral/tufted (M/T) cell spi...

One of the central problems in systems neuroscience is to understand how neural spike trains convey sensory information. Decoding methods, which provide an explicit means for reading out the information contained in neural spike responses, offer a powerful set of tools for studying the neural coding problem. Here we develop several decoding methods based on point-process neural encoding models,...

There are two basic problems in the statistical analysis of neural data. The "encoding" problem concerns how information is encoded in neural spike trains: can we predict the spike trains of a neuron (or population of neurons), given an arbitrary stimulus or observed motor response? Conversely, the "decoding" problem concerns how much information is in a spike train, in particular, how well can...

1. A comparison was made between the influences of supramammillary (SUM) and medial septal (MS) nuclei on hippocampal physiology in Nembutal-anesthetized rats. Specifically, the effects of prestimulation of the SUM or MS on the perforant path-dentate field potential, on spontaneous activity of single units, and on perforant path-induced unit activation were assessed. Another series of experimen...

By varying the noise intensity, we investigate the population synchronization in an inhibitory population of bursting Hindmarsh-Rose neurons. Unlike spiking neurons, bursting neurons show firing patterns with two timescales: a fast spiking timescale and a slow bursting timescale that modulates the spiking activity. Through separation of the fast and slow timescales, we characterize the burst an...

Spiking activity from populations of neurons display causal interactions and memory effects. Therefore, they are expected to show some degree of irreversibility in time. Motivated by the spike train statistics, in this paper we build a framework to quantify the degree of irreversibility of any maximum entropy distribution. Our approach is based on the transfer matrix technique, which enables us...

introduction: purkinje cell (pc) output displays a complex firing pattern consisting of high frequency sodium spikes and low frequency calcium spikes, and disruption in this firing behavior may contribute to cerebellar ataxia. riluzole, neuroprotective agent, has been demonstrated to have neuroprotective effects in cerebellar ataxia. here, the spectral analysis of pcs firing in control, 3-acety...

A fundamental problem in studying population codes is how to compare population activity patterns. Population activity patterns are not just spatial, but spatiotemporal. Thus, a principled approach to the problem of the comparison of population activity patterns begins with the comparison of the temporal activity patterns of a single neuron, and then, to the extension of the scope of this compa...