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Instability of Firing Threshold and “Remote” Activation in Cortical Neurones

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  2. R. ELUL: On leave from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem.

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  1. Space Biology Laboratory, Brain Research Institute, and Department of Anatomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California

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ELUL, R., ADEY, W. Instability of Firing Threshold and “Remote” Activation in Cortical Neurones. Nature 212, 1424–1425 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121424a0

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