Tonic and burst firing: dual modes of thalamocortical relay.

By S. M. Sherman. Trends in Neurosciences, 2001

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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EEG alpha oscillations: the inhibition-timing hypothesis. (2007, background): “Sherman (2001a) argues that bothmodes, the tonic and the arhythmic burst mode efficiently relay information in the cortex but have different consequences for information processing.”
The role of the thalamus in the flow of information to the cortex. (2002, methodology): “…through the use of a method from signal-detection theory involving the calculation of receiver-operating characteristic curves (Green & Swets 1966; Macmillan & Creelman 1991) showing that stimulus detectability is improved during burst firing compared with tonic firing (Sherman 1996, 2001) .”
Attention modulates responses in the human lateral geniculate nucleus (2002, background): “For several reasons, the TRN has long been implicated in theoretical accounts of selective attentio”
Independence of luminance and contrast in natural scenes and in the early visual system (2005, background): “These transients corresponded to bursts of action potential”
Modulation of visual responses by behavioral state in mouse visual cortex. (2010, positive): “Burst firing and short interspike intervals are generally found to be more rather than less effective in driving cortical responses (Usrey, 2002); indeed, bursts have been postulated to serve as a ‘‘wakeup call’’ for cortex (Sherman, 2001).”
Tuning out the noise: Limbic-auditory interactions in tinnitus (2010, neutral): “TRN-mediated inhibition can also cause thalamic relay neurons to shift between tonic and burst-firing modes, the latter of which requires cells to be in a hyperpolarized state (Llinás and Jahnsen, 1982; Sherman, 2001).”
New vistas for α-frequency band oscillations (2007, neutral): “Whereas the firing rate in tonic mode is linearly related to the strength of sensory signals and is thereby well suited for detailed signal analysis, the transmission in bursting mode takes place in an all-or-none fashion and might be better suited for signal detection [ 33 ,34].”
Do We Know What the Early Visual System Does? (2005, background): “Smith GD, Cox CL, Sherman SM, Rinzel J (2000) Fourier analysis of sinu-”
Functional mechanisms shaping lateral geniculate responses to artificial and natural stimuli. (2008, methodology): “In particular, we tested the possible impact of two such mechanisms: a mechanism of burst generation (Lesica and Stanley, 2004; Mukherjee and Kaplan, 1995; Sherman, 2001; Smith et al., 2000) and a mechanism of slow adaptation (Baccus and Meister, 2002; Demb, 2002; Solomon et al.”
Cortical State and Attention (2011, neutral): “This enhanced propensity may emphasize the response to the onset of a stimulus train but may interfere with the linear representation of temporally extended stimul”
Thalamic relay functions and their role in corticocortical communication: generalizations from the visual system. (2002, background): “What is gained by having this relay, or better perhaps, what would be lost if, for sen and Llinás (1984), Sherman and Guillery (1996, 2001), Hughes et al. (1999), and Sherman (2001); they will beinstance, the eye were connected directly to the cortex?”
Thalamocortical optimization of tactile processing according to behavioral state* (2002, background): “During bursting, thalamic neurons are ideally tuned to detect fast changes in incoming sensory signals (similar to a high-pass filter) and to pass this information on to the corte”
Brain Mechanisms Supporting Modulation of Pain by Mindfulness Meditation (2011, positive): “Projections from the PFC contact TRN GABAergic neurons, which in turn modulate sensory nuclei of the thalamus and thereby influence the transmission of subsequent sensory information to the cortex in a context-dependent manner (Sherman, 2001; Rauschecker et al., 2010).”
Thalamic neuromodulation and its implications for executive networks (2014, background): “Thus, layer VI activation of a relay cell would make it more likely to fire spikes in tonic mode, facilitating faithful signal transmission (Sherman, 2001).”