Toward a full-scale computational model of the rat dentate gyrus

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Schneider, Calvin J ^a   Bezaire, Marianne ^a   Soltesz, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Dentate gyrus; Morphology; Parallel; Variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RAT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84869761919     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00083     Document Type: Article

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