Stable propagation of synchronous spiking in cortical neural networks

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6761, 1999, Pages 529-533

  Dlesmann, Markus ^a,b,c   Gewaltig, Marc Oliver ^a,b,c   Aertsen, Ad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^c Future Technology Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033518170     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/990101     Document Type: Article

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