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Synchrony and the single neuron

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In synaptic integration, timing is everything. A new study demonstrates that voltage-activated ion channels transform spatially distributed synaptic input into a coherent neuronal output by countering time delays in the dendritic tree.

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Figure 1: Effect of HCN channels on dendritic time delay.

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