ULTITY SOFTWARE

UTILITY SOFTWARE:

Local Field Potential Analyser I: Matlab script LFPdataExporter - allows transfer of continuous variable (e.g. LFP) data recorded as *.plx or *.nex file format to EEGLAB [v 4.515] for Independent Component Analysis (ICA) (uploaded April 2005)
Local Field Potential Analyser II: Matlab script LFPanalyserSuite - LFP analysis suite v2006 (uploaded July 2006; bug fix/update#1 March 2007; #2 June 2007)
Local Field Potential Analyser III: Matlab script LFPdetector - for detection of fundamental frequencies in LFPs - [based on Masimore et al J Neuroscience Methods (2004) 138, 97-105] (uploaded July 2005)
Local Field Potential Analyser IV: Matlab script LFPaverager - this is a GUI update to the ADperievent script (written by Plexon Inc. for their on-line Matlab Client Development Kit available from their web site) implemented in Matlab v7.2 (uploaded September 2006)
Local Field Potential Analyser V: Matlab script advanced-LFPanalyser - LFP analyser v2009; includes phase-coherence (uploaded May 2009; bug fix June 2009); User Guide (Word *.doc format)
PLXspikeWaveformExtractor : Procedure for extracting spike waveform shape information from Plexon (*.plx) files (Dr Jill Suckling - uploaded June 2005)
Ultrasound Vocalisation Analyser: Matlab script USVisualiser - allows PCA characterisation of rodent US calls (New manual v1.05 installed 30.08.2007 - software uploading soon)
Sensory Gating Analyser: Matlab script TC-Ratio2008 - measurement of auditory-evoked Test:Conditioning (T:C) stimulus ratios (User-Guide / TC50 version)

· PDCanalyser(v2008r): Partial Directed Coherence (PDC) Matlab script

Partial Directed Coherence (PDC): Matlab script FUNcat-v2(2009) - PDC/Granger Causality analysis of spike train & LFPs [2010-pdf /mainPDC script uploaded Jan 2015]
LFP Up/Down-STATEanalysis utility: Matlab script Up/Down-StateAnalyser - allows characterisation of cortical recording Up-states & Down-states ( - uploaded November 2013)
Spike waveform Analysis (2014): Procedure for extracting spike waveform shape information from Plexon (*.plx) files (Dr Ian Devonshire - uploaded June 2014)
SpikeTrainAnalysis (2014): Matlab script to cluster (k-means/hierarchial) spike train firing rate rasters
CrossCorrelationGrid (2014): Matlab script to visualise x-correlograms (CCHs) in multiple unit data sets xCorrGrid (2014) utility
LFP Seizure-detection utility (2014) 2018 upload: Matlab script (Sarin Leigh & Christopher Tucker) to visualise “seizure-like events” in LFP/EEG recordings – UserGuide2 / UserGuide1 / UserGuide3 LFPseizureDetection utility

Spike Train Analysis–An Introductory Workshop [STA v0.991] draft edition: 28.12.2016 - under continual development

HARDWARE: laboratory custom-GIZZMO’s - constructed by School’s Medical Engineering Unit

Electrode manufacture:

· Glass-insulated tungsten microelectrode fabrication Workstation - image #1 - image #2

· Micro-iontophoresis electrode manufacture – images: (puller schematic - silicone-coating - signal:noise improvement (spike comparison image) - Scott, G. & Mason, R. (1992) A simple and rapid method for improving the recording characteristics of multi-barreled micropipettes J. Neurosci. Methods 43: 225-229 pdf