Bursting of thalamic neurons and states of vigilance.

By Rodolfo R. Llinás, Mircea Steriade. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2006

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EEG-vigilance and BOLD effect during simultaneous EEG/fMRI measurement (2009, neutral): “It is questionable whether or not the thalamus serves as a generator of cortical alpha activity or if it helps stabilizing more global functional brain states (Llinás and Steriade, 2006).”
Transcranial alternating current stimulation entrains single-neuron activity in the primate brain (2019, background): “Although bursting can arise from network dynamics (72) or very specific sensory input (73), it is typically thought to reflect local, cell-intrinsic properties (42, 74), especially when the overall firing rate does not change, as we report here.”
Electroencephalogram features support the retrogenesis hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease: Exploratory comparison of brain changes in aging and childhood (2025, unknown): “These changes have been interpreted as abnormal synchronization at slow frequencies ( 7 Hz) in cortical pyramidal neurons, driven by neurons in the thalamocortical and corticothalamic circuits that exhibit bursting action potentials at these slow frequencies 74,75 .”