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Nature Neuroscience  6, 9 - 11 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nn0103-9

Activity-dependent synapse development: changing the rules

Timothy H. Murphy

The author is in the Kinsmen Laboratory and Brain Research Centre and the Departments of Psychiatry and Physiology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada. thmurphy@interchange.ubc.ca

In a recent Nature paper, reduction of postsynaptic activity within single neurons of an active network reveals a new role for Hebbian competition during early development.

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