Diego Contreras

TL;DR: A material strategy for a type of bio-interfaced system that relies on ultrathin electronics supported by bioresorbable substrates of silk fibroin that provides new capabilities for implantable and surgical devices is described.

TL;DR: This system is used to record spatial properties of cat brain activity in vivo, including sleep spindles, single-trial visual evoked responses and electrographic seizures, and it is found that seizures may manifest as recurrent spiral waves that propagate in the neocortex.

TL;DR: It is shown that epileptiform bursts, including double and multiple bursts, containing VFO occur in rat auditory cortex in vitro, in the presence of kainate, when both GABA(A) and GABA(B) receptors are blocked.

TL;DR: In vivo intracellular recordings from thalamorecipient neurons in layers 3 and 4 of the rat barrel cortex are used to elucidate the dynamics of the synaptic inputs underlying direction selectivity, and it is shown that cells are direction selective despite a broadly tuned excitatory and inhibitory synaptic input.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that networks of model neurons that include the main intrinsic currents found in RE cells can generate waxing and waning oscillatory activity similar to the spindle rhythmicity observed in the isolated RE nucleus in vivo.