Ephaptic coupling to endogenous electric field activity: Why bother?

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 95-103

  Anastassiou, Costas A ^a   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; EPHAPTIC COUPLING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; ANIMAL; BRAIN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84907692641     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.09.002     Document Type: Review

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