What are the classic firing patterns of cortical neurons called? · Lobeworks/17

Regular spiking, fast spiking and intrinsically bursting, the names McCormick and colleagues gave in 1985 to how cortical cells answer a step of current.

What are the classic firing patterns of cortical neurons called?

Regular spiking, fast spiking and intrinsically bursting, the names McCormick and colleagues gave in 1985 to how cortical cells answer a step of current. Regular spiking cells, most pyramidal neurons, fire a train that slows down; fast-spiking cells, the parvalbumin interneurons, fire at hundreds of hertz without slowing; intrinsically bursting cells, some layer 5 pyramidal neurons, answer with a tight cluster of spikes first. Other cells fire only once at the start of the step.