Thousands of active synapses on the dendrites drastically increase membrane conductance. Williams now shows that local processing is unaffected by conductance changes in distant regions, highlighting how functionally independent dendritic regions interact.
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London, M., Segev, I. Conducting synaptic music in dendrites. Nat Neurosci 7, 904–905 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0904-904
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