Characterization of the planarian surface electroencephalogram.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite large morphological differences between the nervous systems of lower animals and humans, striking functional similarities have been reported. However, little is known about how these functional similarities translate to cognitive similarities. As a first step towards studying the cognitive abilities of simple nervous systems, we here characterize the ongoing electrophysiological activity of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. One previous report using invasive microelectrodes describes that the ongoing neural activity is characterized by a 1/f^x power spectrum with the exponent 'x' of the power spectrum close to 1. To extend these findings, we aimed to establish a recording protocol to measure ongoing neural activity safely and securely from alive and

SUBMITTER: Freiberg J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10157967 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature