New Light on Gamma Oscillations

Cristin G Welle; Diego Contreras

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.01.003

New Light on Gamma Oscillations

Neuron. 2017 Jan 18;93(2):247-249. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.01.003.

Authors

Cristin G Welle¹, Diego Contreras²

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Neurosurgery and Bioengineering, University of Colorado, Denver, CO 80045, USA; Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
² Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: diegoc@upenn.edu.

PMID: 28103471
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.01.003

Abstract

Two papers in this issue of Neuron by Saleem et al. (2017) and Storchi et al. (2017) show that increases in background light intensity trigger proportional increases in narrowband gamma oscillations with a peak at 60 Hz in retina, lateral geniculate, and primary visual cortex of the mouse visual system.

MeSH terms

Animals
Geniculate Bodies
Light*
Mice
Neurons
Retina
Visual Cortex*