Stevens J R
Ann Neurol. 1977 Apr;1(4):309-14. doi: 10.1002/ana.410010402.
Enhanced neuronal excitability or coherence, leading to a rapid-bursting mode of unit discharge or to synchronous polarization, underlies the electroencephalographic spike. The propensity for EEG spike activity to occur in relation to events that require absolute command of neural circuitry suggests that the EEG spike represents a mode of discharge of underlying neural elements which is employed for communication of imperative messages. Normal when confined to certain axial nuclei of the brain during sleep or during photic or sexual excitation, compensatory in response to deafferentation or hypoxia, this powerful transmission mode must have certain advantages to have persisted throughout evolutionary history.
增强的神经元兴奋性或连贯性，导致单位放电的快速爆发模式或同步极化，是脑电图棘波的基础。脑电图棘波活动与需要绝对控制神经回路的事件相关发生的倾向表明，脑电图棘波代表了潜在神经元件的一种放电模式，用于传达紧急信息。这种强大的传输模式在睡眠期间、光刺激或性兴奋期间局限于大脑的某些轴核时是正常的，对去传入或缺氧有代偿作用，它一定具有某些优势才得以在整个进化史上持续存在。
