Communication and wiring in the cortical connectome

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages

  Budd, Julian M L ^a   Kisvárday, Zoltán F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Axon; Cerebral cortex; Communication; Connectome; Dendrite; Networks; Optimization; Ram n y Cajal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE;

EID: 85052272572     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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