The Impact of Structural Heterogeneity on Excitation-Inhibition Balance in Cortical Networks

Neuron

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1106-1121

  Landau, Itamar D ^a   Egger, Robert ^a,b   Dercksen, Vincent J ^a,c   Oberlaender, Marcel ^a,b,d   Sompolinsky, Haim ^a,e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^d CENTER OF ADVANCED EUROPEAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH CAESAR   (Germany)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; balance; cortical networks; dynamics; homeostatic plasticity; inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY PARAMETERS; EXCITATION INHIBITION BALANCE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS;

EID: 85003707570     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.10.027     Document Type: Article

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