Specificity and randomness: Structure-function relationships in neural circuits

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 801-807

  Lee, Wei Chung Allen ^a,b   Reid, R Clay ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNEURON; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; REVIEW; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RETINA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 82855175195     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.07.004     Document Type: Review

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