Small is beautiful: Models of small neuronal networks

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 670-675

  Lamb, Damon G ^a   Calabrese, Ronald L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING; CRUSTACEA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PROCESSING; HEART BEAT; HIRUDO; INVERTEBRATE; LYMNAEA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY SYSTEM; SMALL NERVE CELL NETWORK; STOMATOGASTRIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SWIMMING; TRITONIA SEA SLUG;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS;

EID: 84865981192     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.01.010     Document Type: Review

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