A combined computational and intracellular study of correlated synaptic bombardment in neocortical pyramidal neurons in vivo

Neurocomputing

Volumn 32-33, Issue , 2000, Pages 113-119

  Destexhe, Alain ^a   Paré, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arousal; Cerebral cortex; Computational models; Dendritic integration; Synaptic background activity

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; CELL MEMBRANES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITIC INTEGRATION; SYNAPTIC BACKGROUND ACTIVITY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

TETRODOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 0033912812     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(00)00151-X     Document Type: Article

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