Computer model of clonazepam's effect in thalamic slice (Lytton 1997)

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Demonstration of the effect of a minor pharmacological synaptic change at the network level. Clonazepam, a benzodiazepine, enhances inhibition but is paradoxically useful for certain types of seizures. This simulation shows how inhibition of inhibitory cells (the RE cells) produces this counter-intuitive effect.
Reference:
1 . Lytton WW (1997) Computer model of clonazepam's effect in thalamic slice. Neuroreport 8:3339-43 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Realistic Network;
Brain Region(s)/Organism: Thalamus;
Cell Type(s): Thalamus geniculate nucleus/lateral principal GLU cell; Thalamus reticular nucleus GABA cell;
Channel(s): I Na,t; I T low threshold; I K; I CAN;
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): GabaA; Gaba;
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s): Gaba;
Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Activity Patterns; Bursting; Therapeutics; Epilepsy; Calcium dynamics;
Implementer(s): Lytton, William [bill.lytton at downstate.edu];
Search NeuronDB for information about:  Thalamus geniculate nucleus/lateral principal GLU cell; Thalamus reticular nucleus GABA cell; GabaA; Gaba; I Na,t; I T low threshold; I K; I CAN; Gaba;
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load_file("nrngui.hoc")
/*
All files, except this one, are "as is" from Bill Lytton. In particular,
when the simulation is launched by loading the init.hoc file, they
use some commands which are linux specific such as "grep -a".
To launch init.hoc or disp.hoc on other machines one may have
to change the lines in those files which read:

uname = "i586"
osname = "Linux"

The original files came in a compressed archive,
95nov29.tar.gz, which expanded into a directory named,
batch95nov29.01
*/

strdef grep
load_file("disp.hoc")

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