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Cortical networks produce three distinct 7-12 Hz rhythms during single sensory responses in the awake rat.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20335467     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Cortical rhythms in the alpha/mu frequency range (7-12 Hz) have been variously related to "idling," anticipation, seizure, and short-term or working memory. This overabundance of interpretations suggests that sensory cortex may be able to produce more than one (and even more than two) distinct alpha/mu rhythms. Here we describe simultaneous local field potential and single-neuron recordings made from primary sensory (gustatory) cortex of awake rats and reveal three distinct 7-12 Hz de novo network rhythms within single sessions: an "early," taste-induced approximately 11 Hz rhythm, the first peak of which was a short-latency gustatory evoked potential; a "late," significantly lower-frequency (approximately 7 Hz) rhythm that replaced this first rhythm at approximately 750-850 ms after stimulus onset (consistently timed with a previously described shift in taste temporal codes); and a "spontaneous" spike-and-wave rhythm of intermediate peak frequency (approximately 9 Hz) that appeared late in the session, as part of a oft-described reduction in arousal/attention. These rhythms proved dissociable on many grounds: in addition to having different peak frequencies, amplitudes, and shapes and appearing at different time points (although often within single 3 s snippets of activity), the early and late rhythms proved to have completely uncorrelated session-to-session variability, and the spontaneous rhythm affected the early rhythm only (having no impact on the late rhythm). Analysis of spike-to-wave coupling suggested that the early and late rhythms are a unified part of discriminative taste process: the identity of phase-coupled single-neuron ensembles differed from taste to taste, and coupling typically lasted across the change in frequency. These data reveal that even rhythms confined to a narrow frequency band may still have distinct properties.
Authors:
Adriano B L Tort; Alfredo Fontanini; Mark A Kramer; Lauren M Jones-Lush; Nancy J Kopell; Donald B Katz
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience     Volume:  30     ISSN:  1529-2401     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Neurosci.     Publication Date:  2010 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-03-25     Completed Date:  2010-04-20     Revised Date:  2012-04-09    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8102140     Medline TA:  J Neurosci     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  4315-24     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal and Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59066, Brazil. tort@natalneuro.org.br
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Action Potentials / physiology
Afferent Pathways / physiology
Alpha Rhythm*
Animals
Female
Fourier Analysis
Neurons / physiology
Rats
Rats, Long-Evans
Reaction Time / physiology
Somatosensory Cortex / anatomy & histology,  physiology*
Taste / physiology*
Theta Rhythm*
Time Factors
Wakefulness / physiology*
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
R01 DC006666-06/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS; R01 DC006666-07/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS; R01 DC007703-04/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS; R01 DC007703-07/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS; R01-DC-007102/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS; R03-DC-008885/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS

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