title: Formation of excitation-inhibition balance: inhibition listens and changes its tune.
abstract: Recently, Xue, Atallah, and Scanziani reported that excitation/inhibition ratios across cortical pyramidal neurons are equalized by activity-dependent modulations of parvalbumin-neuron mediated feedforward inhibition. Their results raise questions about the developmental formation of this excitation-inhibition balance and the potential activity-dependent synaptic plasticity rules that mediate this process.
authors.affiliation: Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Electronic address: htao@usc.edu.
authors.forename: Huizhong W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.affiliation: Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
authors.forename: Ya-tang
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Electronic address: liizhang@usc.edu.
authors.forename: Li I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*