From the Research Institute on Health Sciences (I.C., C.S., M.Á.M., A.G.-R., M.M.-J., P.M.), University of Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain; Consejo Nacional deInvestigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (D.F., P.B., D.R.C.); Departamento de Ciencias (D.F.), Universidad de San Andres; Departamento de Física (P.B.), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology (N.B.), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Ospedale San Camillo (N.B.), Instituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Venezia, Italy; and Department of Physiology (D.R.C.), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Pedro Montoya, PhD, Research Institute on Health Sciences, University of the Balearic Islands, Cra. Valldemossa km 7.5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Plan Nacional de I+D+I and European Regional Development Funds; grant numbers SEJ2007-62312 and JCI-2008-03074); National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (grant number NS58661 to Dr. Chialvo); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (Argentina); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research; and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (Germany).
No conflicts of interest were declared by any of the authors.
Received for publication March 24, 2011; revision received September 5, 2011.