Electrical activity of the acutely isolated pons in cats
Abstract
The cat's pons was isolated by two brainstem transections, at the junction of medulla and pons and at the junction of pons and midbrain. In the deafferented pons the EEG activity was virtually absent, whereas the spatial density of active units and the rate of their spontaneous spike activity were at a high level. In the pons of control preparations with brainstem transected only at the ponto-midbrain junction the EEG activity was present, while the single-unit activity was such as in the isolated pons. The electrical activity of the isolated pons was similar to that previously described in the cat's isolated midbrain. The discrepancy between EEG and single-unit activity suggests that in the deafferented pons or midbrain many neurones are asynchronously autoactive. Also, these results show that a flat EEG record is not necessarily a sign of absence of the neural activity and neural death.
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