Using the image above, let’s examine the three major components of a neuron. The soma is the cell body and contains the nucleus and other components of a typical cell. There are different types ...

Figure 2: Dendritic distribution of active channels in different neuron types ... or it increases with increasing distance from the soma. As mentioned above, I h has also been suggested to ...

Activation of a small fraction of the tens of thousands of excitatory synapses on a pyramidal neuron can probably evoke dendritic spikes, but these events do not always propagate to the soma and ...