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Science 14 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5451, pp. 244 - 246
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5451.244
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Perspectives

NEUROBIOLOGY:
Diversity in Inhibition

Richard Miles

The seamless balance between inhibitory and excitatory nerve cells is necessary for the correct functioning of the brain. In a Perspective, Miles discusses a series of new findings (Martina et al.; Gupta et al.) that enable inhibitory neurons to be classified into three groups and characterized according to their properties.

The author is at the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Cellulaire, INSERM U261, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. E-mail: rmiles{at}pasteur.fr

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