title: Balancing excitation and inhibition.
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, D'amour and Froemke (2015) examine how inhibitory spike-time-dependent plasticity (STDP) interacts with co-activated excitatory STDP to regulate excitatory-inhibitory balance in auditory cortex.
authors.affiliation: The Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: kirkwood@jhu.edu.
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kirkwood
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000502:physiology*