Random Response Fluctuations Lead to Spurious Paired-Pulse Facilitation

This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants RO1 NS36612 and RO1 NS30219 to B.E.A. J.K. was supported by the Training Program in Neuroscience T32 DE1474. We thank Scott Thompson and Darrin Brager for help with Stella in the modeling studies and for their comments on this manuscript. We also thank Greg Carlson and Namita Varma for reading and commenting on this manuscript.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Bradley E. Alger, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 655 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. E-mail: balger{at}umaryland.edu.