Publication Date:
2009
abstract:
Our overall aim here is to discuss the hypothesis of astrocytes as non-neuronal elements that may contribute to generate and/or maintain on the one hand, the neuronal synchrony that could be physiologically relevant to information processing, and on the other, the hypersynchronous neuronal bursting that characterizes epileptic activities.
Iris type:
02.01 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Keywords:
neurons; astrocytes; pathology; epilepsy; synchrony
List of contributors:
Carmignoto, Piergiorgio; Zonta, Micaela
Book title:
Astrocytes in (Patho)Physiology of the Nervous System