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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Shunting is an event in the neuron which occurs when an excitatory postsynaptic potential and an inhibitory postsynaptic potential are occurring close to each other on a dendrite, or are both on the soma of the cell.

See also

• Spatial summation
• Temporal summation

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