A recently identified plasticity mechanism—'synaptic scaling'—is now shown to operate in vivo to promote the stability of network function in the face of changing input activity.
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Feldman, D. Synapses, scaling and homeostasis in vivo. Nat Neurosci 5, 712–714 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0802-712
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