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resonance, again

Richard Norman rsnorman at mediaone.net
Fri Jun 2 09:47:26 EST 2000


My reaction against the "new-age" resonance theorists did
lead me to over-react.

The paper of  L. Stan Leung and Hui-Wen Yu,
     Theta-Frequency Resonance in Hippocampal CA1 Neurons
     In Vitro Demonstrated by Sinusoidal Current Injection,
     J Neurophysiol 79:1592-1596(1998)

is, indeed, a real physiological investigation of repetitive
activity in terms of physical resonance.  My apologies to the
authors.

Sturla Molden <sturla at --delete--molden.net> wrote in message
news:3937abeb.1491900 at newscache.ntnu.no...
> On Wed, 31 May 2000 01:38:06 GMT, "Richard Norman"
> <rsnorman at mediaone.net> wrote:
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> >If you believe that a newsgroup named "neuroscience" is supposed to
> >involve actual science, the answer to your question is simple.
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> >There is NO phenomenon of resonance in actual neurophysiology.
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> Teach your self some biophysics before you speak.
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> Both neural cricuits and neurons can have resonant properties
> for certain frequencies. One example is the paper by Stan Leung on
> theta frequency resonance in the hippocampus:
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> http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/79/3/1592.pdf
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> This type of resonance is not to be confused with new-age ideas,
> though.
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