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In synaptic integration, timing is everything. A new study demonstrates that voltage-activated ion channels transform spatially distributed synaptic input into a coherent neuronal output by countering time delays in the dendritic tree.

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Figure 1: Effect of HCN channels on dendritic time delay.

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Williams, S. Synchrony and the single neuron. Nat Neurosci 16, 1714–1715 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3586

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