| Title | Recruitment of neurons into neural ensembles based on dendritic plateau potentials |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Gao, P. P., Graham J. W., Angulo S. L., Dura-Bernal S., Hines M. L., Lytton WW., & Antic S. D. |
| Conference Name | Society for Neuroscience 2018 (SFN '18) |
| Keywords | SFN, Society for Neuroscience |
| Abstract | Experimental observations have shown that glutamatergic inputs to the basal dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons activate AMPA and NMDA receptors, which can bring the dendrites into a long-lasting depolarized state: a dendritic plateau potential. These sustained depolarizations push the cell body towards spike threshold and reduce the membrane time constant. In such a `` |