Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

, Volume 17, Issue 5, pp 400–406 | Cite as

Plastic changes in the spontaneous activity of snail neurons under rhythmic and associated intracellular electrostimulation

  • Ya. I. Verbnyi
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Conclusions

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    A comparison of the effects of intracellular rhythmic and associated electrostimulation on the character of spontaneous activity of individual snail neurons showed that the cells are capable of long adaptive reorganizations of the initial rhythm, which are observed only under the effect of automatic reinforcing stimulation. In this case the changes in the frequency and character of the spontaneous discharge lead to a change in the number of effects applied to the neuron.

     
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    Minimization and maximization of autoreinforcements obtained on individual neurons during their associated intracellular stimulation are regarded as the cellular analogue of the instrumental reflex, in which spontaneous neuronal activity serves as the operant response.

     

Keywords

Neuronal Activity Spontaneous Activity Operant Response Individual Neuron Spontaneous Discharge 
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  • Ya. I. Verbnyi
    • 1
  1. 1.Physicotechnical Institute of Low TemperaturesAcademy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSRKharkov

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