Place fields of single spikes in hippocampus involve Kcnq3 channel-dependent entrainment of complex spike bursts

Abstract

Hippocampal pyramidal cells encode an animal’s location by single action potentials and complex spike bursts. The authors show that Kcnq3-containing M-channels synergistically with GABAergic inputs coordinate complex spike bursts during theta oscillations, which is a key mechanism for spatial coding by single spikes.