A realistic large-scale model of the cerebellum granular layer predicts circuit spatio-temporal filtering properties

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2010, Pages

  Solinas, Sergio ^a,b   Nieus, Thierry ^c   D'Angelo, Egidio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebellar cortex; Electrophysiological modeling; GABA receptors; Granular layer; Neural networks; NMDA receptors; Spatio temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898687448     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2010.00012     Document Type: Article

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