Nelson Spruston is at the Department of Neurobiology
and Physiology and Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University,
2153 N Campus Drive, Evanston, Illinois
60208, USA. spruston@northwestern.edu
By showing that synaptic strength increases as a function of distance
from the soma, Magee and Cook have solved the long-standing puzzle of how
synapses on distal dendrites can influence action potential initiation.
