Contribution of dendritic Ca- and Na-spikes to burst firing in hippocampal place cells
…by the complex interplay between the currents directly evoked by the synaptic stimulus and intrinsic currents controlled by the internal state (e.g. voltage or Ca2+) of the cell. Moreover, the spatially extended dendritic tree of the neurons makes the state variables local. Recruiting local intrinsic currents can fundamentally change the form of input-integration. However, network models ignore the state dependence of neuronal input integration partly because of the lack of information on how intrinsic currents contribute