Dendritic excitability modulates dendritic information processing in a purkinje cell model

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Coop, Allan D ^a   Cornelis, Hugo ^a   Santamaria, Fidel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Compartmental modeling; Dendritic computation; Dendritic conductances; Firing rate; Information theory; Modulatory synapses; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CEREBELLUM; COMPARTMENTAL MODELING; DENDRITIC CONDUCTANCES; FIRING RATES; MODULATORY SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY; COMPARTMENTAL MODEL;

CALCIUM; CELLS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION THEORY; POTASSIUM;

NEURONS;

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONDUCTANCE; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOGRAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; PURKINJE CELL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

EID: 84856516365     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2010.00006     Document Type: Article

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