Energy-Efficient Neuronal Computation via Quantal Synaptic Failures

This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants MH48161 to W.B.L. and MH57358 to N. Goddard (with subcontract 163194-54321 to W.B.L.), by the Department of Neurosurgery, and by the Meade-Munster Foundation. We thank Toby Berger, Costa Colbert, Read Montague, and Simon Laughlin for their useful comments that helped improve a previous version of this manuscript.

Correspondence should be addressed to William B Levy, University of Virginia Health System, P.O. Box 800420, Department of Neurosurgery, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0420. E-mail:wbl{at}virginia.edu.