Do neurons generate monopolar current sources?

According to the “standard model,” electric potentials such as the local field potential (LFP) or the electroencephalogram (EEG) are generated by current dipoles made by cerebral cortex neurons arranged in parallel. In this issue of Journal of Neurophysiology , [Riera et al. (2012)][1] present

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