Balanced excitatory and inhibitory inputs to cortical neurons decouple firing irregularity from rate modulations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 50, 2007, Pages 13802-13812

  Miura, Keiji ^a,b   Tsubo, Yasuhiro ^b   Okada, Masato ^a,b   Fukai, Tomoki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balanced synaptic input; Brain machine interface; Firing irregularity; Gammadistribution; Information geometry; Neural code

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; PATCH CLAMP; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 37249044144     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2452-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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