Neuronal-Based Synaptic Compensation: A Computational Study in Alzheimer's Disease

Neural Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1227-1243

  Horn, David ^a   Levy, Nir ^a   Ruppin, Eytan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS;

EID: 0030586660     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1996.8.6.1227     Document Type: Article

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