Our methods include intracellular and extracellular recording and patch clamping, neuroanatomical techniques, isolated slice preparations, and computer modelling. Behavioral state dynamically modulates short-term plasticity of a thalamocortical pathway. Layer-specific pathways for the horizontal propagation of epileptiform discharges in neocortex. Pathway-specific regulation of synapses in the thalamocortical system. Intrinsic firing patterns and whisker-evoked synaptic responses of neurons in the rat barrel cortex.
Sensory experience modifies short-term dynamics of neocortical synapses.
Whole-cell recordings were made from either the soma or apical dendrite of large layer V pyramidal neurons in the neocortex.