title: Plasticity to the Rescue.
abstract: The balance between excitatory and inhibitory inputs is critical for the proper functioning of neural circuits. Landau and colleagues show that, in the presence of cell-type-specific connectivity, this balance is difficult to achieve without either synaptic plasticity or spike-frequency adaptation to fine-tune the connection strengths.
authors.affiliation: Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: sharpee@snl.salk.edu.
authors.forename: Tatyana O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Sharpee
mesh_terms: D009473:Neuronal Plasticity
keywords: E/I balance; chaotic behavior; correlations; homeostatic plasticity; recurrent networks