Synapse Elimination

Fundamental Neuroscience: Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 437-455

  Tapia, Juan C ^a   Lichtman, Jeff W ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent synaptic change; Connectome; Divergence (fan out); Emergent properties of neural circuits; Neural circuit development; Neuromuscular junction convergence (fan in); Synapse elimination; Synaptic competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944601917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385870-2.00019-6     Document Type: Chapter

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