Neurons are firing when emitting action potentials to communicate with each other. Action potentials generate fast electric currents (~2ms duration) across membrane and slow ones (~10–100ms) at postsynaptic side. These currents generate electric and magnetic fields detectable by scalp EEG and MEG, respectively. They detect the fields relatively far away (~20mm) from firing sources and are only sensitive to slow, easily-synchronized postsynaptic currents. Here we propose a new approach termed as magnetic resonance recording of local neuronal firings (mrLNF) that has a very high temporal resolution (0.25ms) and can non-invasively detect fast and slow neuronal currents at the firing sources.
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