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Basal Ganglia: Beta Oscillations

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Beta oscillations are defined as the oscillations in neural activity with frequencies between 13 and 30 Hz (Fig. 1). In the basal ganglia, the power of beta oscillations is significantly increased in Parkinson’s disease (Hammond et al. 2007).

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One second of local field potentials recorded from internal segment of globus pallidus (top panel) and subthalamic nucleus (bottom panel) from a patient with Parkinson’s disease who was off medications (Reproduced from Brown et al. (2001) with permission)

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Bogacz, R. (2014). Basal Ganglia: Beta Oscillations. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_82-1

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