Studies on Periodic Signals in CNS Cells Under Spontaneous and Driven Conditions

Abstract

This presentation summarizes work done during the past years on periodic signals recorded in the spontaneous activity of brain cells and in responses to stimuli. In some CNS cells periodic signals appear spontaneously or in responses to stimuli which are not periodic in nature. However, such periodic signals appear to possess information transmission capacity in sensory tissues only if they are part of a synchronous population response. A periodic signal in a brain cell is not likely to be transmitted across a synapse unless it arrives at the post-synaptic cell through other routes in the same phase.

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Juhani Hyvärinen

Joyce Laing works in the Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Playfield House, Cupar, Fife, and is a Consultant Art Therapist to Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons and Chairwoman of the Scottish Society of Art and Psychology.