A protocol to investigate cellular and circuit mechanisms generating sharp wave ripple oscillations in rodent...

Basolateral amygdala circuits generate oscillatory network activity to process and remember emotion-tagged events. Ex vivo preparations that recapitulate network activities seen in vivo provide an ideal system to investigate the mechanisms driving these network oscillations. Here we describe an ex vivo preparation of basolateral amygdala slices from rodents for measuring the generated sharp wave ripple oscillations (SWs) using local field potential recording and targeted recording from chandelier neurons that initiate SWs. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Perumal et al. (2021).