From NeuralNetoff

The main target region in the brain we focus on is the hippocampal formation and the para-hippocampal regions (such as the entorhinal cortex). Our main approach is electrophysiology, as well as computational modeling and simulations of neuronal network.

These papers are categorized here to facilitate reading but the contents in them may not be limited to the category name.

Potential Lab meeting papers

Many books are available through the University in electronic format via SciWeb website. All books by Springer and CRC are available.

Contents 1 Basic Anatomy of Hippocampus 2 Electrophysiology 3 Epilepsy 3.1 Computational Models of Epilepsy 4 Oscillatory neuronal activity 4.1 Ih Channels 5 Computational Neuroscience 5.1 Network Theory 5.2 Phase Response Curves 6 Imaging 7 Misc 8 Neurosurgery talks

Basic Anatomy of Hippocampus

• The Anatomy of Memory by Witter et. al

• Amral and Witter: The three-dimensional organization of the hippocampal formation: A review of anatomical data

• Witter et al: Cortico-hippocampal communication by way of parallel parahippocampal-subicular pathways

• Witter and Moser: Spatial representation and the architecture of the entorhinal cortex

• Klink and Alonso: Morphological Characteristics of Layer II Projection

• Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map

Electrophysiology

• Moyer and Brown. Methods for whole-cell recording from visually preselected neurons of perirhinal cortex in brain slices from young and aging rats. J Neurosci. Methods 86: 35-54, 1998

• [www.moleculardevices.com/pdfs/Axon_Guide.pdf, Axon Guide]
• An EEG primer

Epilepsy

• History of electrophysiology of epilepsy

• Barbarosie and Avoli: CA3-Driven Hippocampal-Entorhinal Loop Controls Rather than Sustains In Vitro Limbic Seizures

• Borck and Jefferys: Seizure-like events in disinhibited ventral slices of adult rat hippocampus

• Dhillon and Jones: Laminar differences in recurrent excitatory transmission in the rat entorhinal cortex in vitro

• Rampp and Stefan, Fast activity as a surrogate marker of epileptic network function? Clinical Physiology, 117(10):2111-2117

• Meldrum and Rogawsi, Molecular Targets for Antiepileptic Drug Development

• Presurgical evaluation of epilepsy, what is an epileptic focus, review.

Computational Models of Epilepsy

• William Lytton, Computer modeling of epilepsy. 2008. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 626-637

• Traub: Cellular mechanisms of 4-aminopyridine-induced synchronized after-discharges in the rat hippocampal slice.The Journal of physiology, 1995 vol:489 ( Pt 1) pg:127 -40

• Traub: On the structure of ictal events in vitro.Epilepsia. 1996 Sep;37(9):879-91

• Netoff et al: Epilepsy in Small World Networks

• PA Robinson: Steady states and global dynamics of electrical activity in the cerebral cortex. Physical Review E, Vol.58, No.3, 1998

• Kramer: Pathological pattern formation and cortical propagation of epileptic seizures. J R Soc Interface. 2005 Mar 22;2(2):113-27

• Van Vreeswijl et al: When inhibition not excitation synchronizes neural firing

• Rinzel: Propagating Activity Patterns in Large-Scale Inhibitory Neuronal Networks

• Golomb, D. Models of neuronal transient synchrony during propagation of activity through neocortical circuitry

• Connectivity and the dynamics of integrate-and-fire neural networks, Chu, Milton and Cowan;

• Propagating Activity Patterns in Large-Scale Inhibitory Neuronal Networks J. Rinzel, * D. Terman, X.-J. Wang, B. Ermentrout

• Farley BG, A neuronal network model and the "slow potentials" of electro-physiolgy," Comp. in Biomed Res. 2, 265-294

• Synchrony in Excitatory Neural Networks, Hansel, Mato and Meunier

Oscillatory neuronal activity

Ih Channels

• Persistently modified h-channels after complex febrile seizures convert the seizure-induced enhancement of inhibition to hyperexcitability. Kang Chen 1, 2, Ildiko Aradi1, Niklas Thon1, Mariam Eghbal-Ahmadi1, 2, Tallie Z. Baram1, 2 & Ivan Soltesz. Nature Medicine 7, 331 - 337 (2001)

• Seizure-induced plasticity of h channels in entorhinal cortical layer III pyramidal neurons. Shah MM, Anderson AE, Leung V, Lin X, Johnston D. Neuron. 2004 Oct 28;44(3):495-508

Computational Neuroscience

Network Theory

• Sporns and Kotter: Motifs in Brain Networks

• Skarda and Freeman: How brains make chaos in order to make sense of the world

• Boccaletti, Latora, et al, Complex networks: Structure and dynamcis

• Nykamp. A mathematical framework for inferring connectivity in probabilistic neuronal networks. Mathematical Biosciences, 205: 204-251, 2007

Phase Response Curves

• Bard Ermentrout's chapter on PRCs
• Ermentrout and Chow, Modeling neural oscillations
• Goldberg, Deister and Wilson, Response properties and synchronization of rhythmically firing dendritic neurons effects of dendrites on PRC shape
• Pulse coupled oscillators Scholarpedia article by Carmen Canavier
• Phase response curves gives neuronal response to transient inputs

Imaging

• Independent component analysis of high-resolution imaging data identifies distinct functional domains

• Optical probing of neuronal circuits with calcium indicators

Misc

• Rabinovich Varona Selverston and Abarbanel, Dynamical principles in neuroscience

• Song et al: Highly nonrandom features of synaptic connectivity in local cortical circuits

• Bialek et al: Reading a Neural Code

• Giocomo, Zilli, Fransén, Hasselmo, Temporal Frequency of Subthreshold Oscillations Scales with Entorhinal Grid Cell Field Spacing. Science 23 315(5819):1719-1722. (2007)

• Wilson and McNaughton: Dynamics of the Hippocampal Ensemble Code for Space

• Koch and Zador: The function of dendtritic spines: devices subserving biochemical rather than electrical compartmentalization

Neurosurgery talks

http://www.neuro.umn.edu/neurosurgery/training/residency/corner/webseminars.html