The main impetus for our writing this review was the plethora of recent findings relating to the intrinsic electrophysiological properties of central neurons and to the characteristics of various synaptic networks. Indeed, the study of the thalamus has seen a true renaissance based on the combination of modern in vitro electrophysiological techniques with the more classical in vivo approaches to the study of thalamocortical physiology. Although we represent different levels of neurobiological research (MS.
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