herwin at mason1.gmu.edu (HARRY R. ERWIN) writes:
>GABAergic synapses are generally assumed to be inhibitory, but it was a
>GABAergic synapse that Tom Vogl predicted would be switchable from
>inhibitory to excitatory, and that Dan Alkon eventually confirmed to be
>so. Walter Freeman indicates that no one who has studied the GABAergic
>synapse has investigated the effect of chloride concentration on its
>excitatory/inhibitory nature. Has there been any work done here? I'm
>reaching the point in my Katchalsky network modeling where I'm beginning
>to substitute up-to-date neuronal models, and this area is important.
Maybe this is old hat, but in a lecture last week at the First
International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, Malcolm Slaughter
suggested a model of attention in the retina using GABA for selective
inhibition. You might want to look him up.
Jake.
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