General Methods Overview

• Electrophysiology Overview

• Clinical Electrophysiology – The Electroretinogram ERG by Donnell Creel (University of Utah)

• Electrophysiological Recordings (N. Wanaverbecq, Eccles Corner Neuroscience)

• Electrophysiological Techniques - Visually Evoked Cortical Potentials (VECP) and ElectroRetinoGram (ERG)

• Electrophysiological recordings in oocytes (P. Imbrici, Eccles Corner Neuroscience)

• The Nerve Impulse (Dr. Bezanilla, UCLA)

• Laboratory Experiments: Nerve Action Potential Simulation

Buffers and Solutions

• Solutions for slice preparation, slice maintenance and patch clamp recording (A. Semyanov, N. Wanaverbecq, R. Scott, Eccles Corner Neuroscience)

• A technique of fast drug application to outside-out patches (A. Semyanov, D.M. Kullmann, Eccles Corner Neuroscience)

Brain Slice Preparation

• in vitro Slice Preparation (Medical College of Georgia)

• Brain Slice Electrophysiology Methods (Winder Lab, Vanderbilt Medical Center)

• Preparation of acutely dissociated hippocampal neuron (A. Semyanov & N. Wanaverbecq, Eccles Corner Neuroscience)

Extracellular Recording

• Recording Single-Neuron Electrical Activity in the Human Brain (Matthew A. Howard III, M.D., University of Iowa)

• Extracellular Electrophysiology (Sean M. Montgomery, Rutgers University)

• Extracellular Recording from the Stomatogastric Ganglion of the Crab, Carcinus Maenus: Effects of Dopamine and Serotonin (Sean Montgomery & Errol Ruckert, Rutgers University)

• A targeted extracellular approach for recording long-term firing patterns of excitable cells: a practical guide (Craig S. Nunemaker, et al. University of Virginia)

• Extracellular single and multiple unit recording with carbon fibre microelectrodes

Intracellular Recording

• Intracellular recording and staining in Lymnaea

• Intracellular Features Predicted by Extracellular Recordings in the Hippocampus in Vivo

Multiple Neuronal Recording

• Large-scale recording of neuronal ensembles (György Buzsáki, Nature Neuroscience)

• Using multi-neuron population recordings for neural prosthetics (John K Chapin, Nature Neuroscience)

• Multiple neural spike train data analysis: state-of-the-art and future challenges (Emery N Brown, et al. Nature Neuroscience)

Patch Clamp

• Methods for Study of Ion Channels

• Electrophysiology - The Patch Clamp Technique (Assmann Lab, Pennsylvania State University

• Patch Clamp Technique (direct electrical measurement of ion channel currents while simultaneously controlling the cell’s membrane potential)

• Patch Clamp Technique - Introducing patch clamp technique through flash movie

• Whole Cell Patch Clamp Technique (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

• High-resolution scanning patch-clamp: new insights into cell function (The FASEB Journal)

• Patch Clamp Measurements Applied to Neurons

• Ion-selective microelectrode, sharp electrode, whole-cell clamp and gramicidin perforated-patch recordings (K. Lamsa, Eccles Corner Neuroscience)

• Combined patch clamp recording and mRNA expression profiling in individual neurons (Douglas Coulter's Lab, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)

• A Novel Method for Characterizing Synaptic Noise in Cortical Neurons (Alain Destexhe, et al. Neurocomputing)

• High-resolution scanning patch-clamp: new insights into cell function (The FASEB Journal)

Microdialysis

• The Microdialysis Technique – The Principle (Microdialysis.se)

• Introduction to Microdialysis Technique (University of Groningen)

• Microdialysis - Neurotransmitter Measurement (Emory University)

• Simultaneous Determination of Caffeine From Blood, Brain and Muscle Using Microdialysis in an Awake Rat and Effect of Caffeine on Rat Activity

• Neurochemical: microdialysis and postmortem measures of dopamine and norepinephrine release using HPLC-EC

• A microdialysis method for the recovery of IL-1beta, IL-6 and nerve growth factor from human brain in vivo

• Microdialysis methods for measuring human metabolism

• Microdialysis techniques in the study of brain and skeletal muscle

• Microsensor and microdialysis technology. Advanced techniques in the management of severe head injury