The discharge variability of neocortical neurons during high-conductance states

Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 855-873

  Rudolph, M ^a   Destexhe, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Coefficient of variation; Computational models; Conductance based models; Poisson process

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONDUCTANCE; DENDRITE; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0038120125     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(03)00164-7     Document Type: Article

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