Developing Gain Control in Single Cortical Neurons

From the Univ. Cal. San Diego neurosciences dept. Your doctor should know exactly how much amplitude is required to fire a response and whether your damaged neurons have that ability. I expect my doctor to know one hell of a lot more than I do and that doctor better be a super-mensan.
http://ucsdneuro.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/developing-gain-control-in-single-cortical-neurons/
First, a definition of “gain control” according to Dr. Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington, Seattle) and others in their 2013 Journal of Neuroscience article¹:

“…a neural system’s mapping between inputs and outputs adjusts to dynamically span the varying range of incoming stimuli. In this form of adaptive coding, the nonlinear function relating input to output has the property that the gain with respect to the input scales with the [standard deviation] of the input.”

Your doctor can compare

The single neuron insufficiency principle to this writeup.