UTILITY SOFTWARE:

• Local Field Potential Analyser I: Matlab script LFPdataExporter - allows transfer of continuous variable (e.g. LFP) data recorded as *.plx or *.nex file format to EEGLAB [v 4.515] for Independent Component Analysis (ICA) (uploaded April 2005)
• Local Field Potential Analyser II: Matlab script LFPanalyserSuite - LFP analysis suite v2006 (uploaded July 2006; bug fix/update#1 March 2007; #2 June 2007)
• Local Field Potential Analyser III: Matlab script LFPdetector - for detection of fundamental frequencies in LFPs - [based on Masimore et al J Neuroscience Methods (2004) 138, 97-105] (uploaded July 2005)
• Local Field Potential Analyser IV: Matlab script LFPaverager - this is a GUI update to the ADperievent script (written by Plexon Inc. for their on-line Matlab Client Development Kit available from their web site) implemented in Matlab v7.2 (uploaded September 2006)
• Local Field Potential Analyser V: Matlab script advanced-LFPanalyser - LFP analyser v2009; includes phase-coherence (uploaded May 2009; bug fix June 2009); User Guide (Word *.doc format)
• PLXspikeWaveformExtractor : Procedure for extracting spike waveform shape information from Plexon (*.plx) files (Dr Jill Suckling - uploaded June 2005)
• Ultrasound Vocalisation Analyser: Matlab script USVisualiser - allows PCA characterisation of rodent US calls (New manual v1.05 installed 30.08.2007 - software uploading soon)
• Sensory Gating Analyser: Matlab script TC-Ratio2008 - measurement of auditory-evoked Test:Conditioning (T:C) stimulus ratios (User-Guide / TC50 version)
• Partial Directed Coherence (PDC): Matlab scripts (i) early version mainPDC (ii) FUNcat-v2(2009) - PDC/Granger Causality analysis of spike train & LFPs [2010-pdf / mainPDC script uploaded Jan 2012]

· LFP Up-Down_STATEanalysis utility:

· Hierarchial firing rate cluster analysis utility:

TUTORIAL WORKSHOP:

Spike Train Analysis–An Introductory Workshop [STA v0.95] draft edition: 26.10.2011 - under continual development

HARDWARE: laboratory custom-GIZZMO’s - constructed by School’s Medical Engineering Unit

Electrode manufacture:

· Glass-insulated tungsten microelectrode fabrication Workstation - image #1 - image #2

· Micro-iontophoresis electrode manufacture – images: (puller schematic - silicone-coating - signal:noise improvement spike comparison image) - Scott, G. & Mason, R. (1992) A simple and rapid method for improving the recording characteristics of multi-barreled micropipettes J. Neurosci. Methods 43: 225-229 pdf

· Chronic implantable microdrive for microwire electrode arrays

· Adaptor to allow 3-channel microiontophoresis pipette to “piggy-back” microwire MEAs

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in vitro:

· In vitro culture recording platform - modified Zeiss inverted microscope

· MEA interface connector - allows use of UNT MEAs or MCS MEAs to be used with Plexon Inc recording system

· Brain slice chamber – hold-down ring – used on our submerged slice system #1 or interface Haas-chamber#2

· UNTexas (Dr Guenter Gross) neuronal culture MMEP recording chamber

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in vivo:

· Syringe Safe-n-Tidy rack

· Auditory sensory-gating recording chamber -

· Stereotaxic frames – specialised for fMRI; ear bar modification for auditory stimulation

· Skull trephine

· Independently-controlled 8-channel microwire electrode screw-microdrive

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