A Local Rebalancing Act Leads to Global Benefit
Barnes et al. (2017) reveal that in the visual cortex of sensory-deprived mice, dendritic spine enlargement correlates with recent spine loss from the same dendritic branch. Such branch-specific homeostatic plasticity highlights dendritic branches as key computational units.
Publisher URL: http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)31029-2
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.001
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