Physiology and impact of horizontal connections in rat neocortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3818-3835

  Schnepel, Philipp ^a   Kumar, Arvind ^a   Zohar, Mihael ^a   Aertsen, Ad ^a   Boucsein, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical network; Horizontal connections; Laser uncaging; Noise correlation; Pyramidal neuron

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS; SYNAPSE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84948696923     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu265     Document Type: Article

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