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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant NIH R01 MH115832 under the CRCNS program to SG) and by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under the Specific Grant Agreement No. 785907 (Human Brain Project SGA2) to MM.

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Gasparini, S., Migliore, M. (2019). Action Potential Back-Propagation. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_123-5

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    Action Potential Back-Propagation
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_123-5

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