Dendritic computation

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue , 2005, Pages 503-532

  London, Michael ^a   Häusser, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coding; Dendrites; Ion channels; Spikes; Synaptic integration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; DENDRITE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 23244457444     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.28.061604.135703     Document Type: Review

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