Simultaneous large-scale recordings in dorsal hippocampus, basolateral amygdala and neighbouring deep nuclei and structures in rats performing a spatial aversive task and sleeping.

This data set consists of simultaneous recordings from 4 rats in the dorsal
hippocampus and amygdala (including BLA, CeN and neighboring nuclei and structures
such as piriform cortex) during sleep and behavior. Histological reconstructions are
provided as maps with corresponding structure for each electrode shank (8-shank
Neuronexus silicon probes) and recording day.
The behavior consists of running on a linear track for water rewards. In one location
and one direction, an aversive airpuff is delivered. The location and direction
change everyday in a pseudo-random manner.
Each session consists of a track training session preceded and followed by sleep and
rest in the homecage. At the beginning and end of each daily recording, a test is
recorded with the animal running a few laps on the track without airpuff.
This dataset contains
- Filtered LFP files at 1250Hz (134 or 166 channels)
- Sorted Spike information as given by the Neuroscope suite, klustakwik followed by
manual sorting.
- Videos (tracking by LED on the animal’s head) and position files.
- Events for ripples, airpuffs and rewards in the Neuroscope format (.evt)
- xml files for channel ordering and descriptions.
The data is organized in folders per animal and session (1 session/day).
A set of analysis and thorough description of the dataset and methods are described in:
G. Girardeau, I. Inema, G. Buzsaki. Reactivations of emotional memory in the
hippocampus-amygdala system during sleep. Nature Neuroscience (2017) doi: 10.1038/nn.4637.