An inside look at hippocampal silent cells.

Neuron

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Published: April 2011

Hippocampal pyramidal cells can be divided into place cells, which fire action potentials when an animal is in specific locations, and silent cells, which are not spatially selective. In this issue of Neuron, Epsztein et al. find intracellular differences between place and silent cells by using whole-cell recordings in freely moving rats.

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