The electrical coupling confers to a network of interneurons the ability of transmitting excitatory inputs with high temporal precision

Brain Research

Volumn 1225, Issue , 2008, Pages 47-56

  Di Garbo, Angelo ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrical synapse; Information transmission; Inhibition; Interneuron; Noise

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; INTERNEURON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48349131365     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.05.021     Document Type: Article

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