In article <3FDFB0A3.4B1D74 at shaw.ca>, SeeBelow at SeeBelow.Nut wrote:
> Which suggests that these autapses are likely to be inhibitory, but I
> don't believe that's necessary.
The assertion that they implement negative feedback would suggest they
were inhibitory, but in the case of glutamatergic cells (most cortical
neurons) they aren't inhibitory, and hence do not implement negative
feedback.
>Does anyone know whether most of them
> are inhibitory?
There are no large-scale surveys of autapses that I know of - the
difficulty of identifying a synapse as autaptic is immense. Hence most
of the material I have seen is in cultures, and descriptions of isolated
examples in vivo.
Matthew.