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In Chapter I there is an extensive account of the structural features of the most remarkable elements of the cerebellar cortex, the Purkinje cells, and in Chapter III there is a full description of the synapses that parallel fibers make with the spiny branchlets of Purkinje cell dendrites. This Chapter will be devoted to accounts of the responses of Purkinje cells, firstly the propagation of impulses over their surfaces, then the responses evoked by parallel fiber volleys, either by direct excitatory synaptic action, or indirectly by the basket and outer stellate cells and their synapses on Purkinje cells. There is much evidence that these latter synapses account for the powerful inhibitory synaptic action that parallel fiber volleys exert on Purkinje cells.
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Eccles, J.C., Ito, M., Szentágothai, J. (1967). Purkinje Cells and their Responses. In: The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13147-3_6
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