Anping Chai

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In order to elicit an action potential, how many synapses should be activated?

It has been estimated that one neuron may have thousands of synapses. In physiological condition, it seems like one pre-synaptic neuron can only elicit small EPSP in a post-synaptic neuron. How...

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Is there any difference between action potential and spike?

I noticed that people prefer to choose AP when using patch clamp recording, and spike when using MEA recording. To my understanding, a AP must be a spike, but a spike is not necessarily a action...

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