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Network Properties of the Thalamic Clock: Role of Oscillatory Behavior in Mood Disorders

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Induced Rhythms in the Brain

Part of the book series: Brain Dynamics ((BD))

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Rhythmic oscillations of neuronal populations are present at several levels of the central nervous system. Rhythmicity can occur in the central nervous system because some neurons have ionic conductances organized to endow them with autorhythmicity and because these “pacemaker” neurons are in connections with ensembles of neurons that respond preferentially to inputs at certain frequencies (cf. Llinás, 1988). Alternatively, rhythmic patterns may occur as an emergent property of network activity of neurons, none of which is capable of maintaining oscillatory behavior in isolation (Andersen and Andersson, 1968; Traub et al., 1989).

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  1. György Buzsáki
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  1. Institute of Physiology, Medical University Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-2400, Lübeck 1, Germany

    Erol Başar

  2. Department of Neurosciences, 0201, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Theodore H. Bullock

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Buzsáki, G. (1992). Network Properties of the Thalamic Clock: Role of Oscillatory Behavior in Mood Disorders. In: Başar, E., Bullock, T.H. (eds) Induced Rhythms in the Brain. Brain Dynamics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1281-0_13

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