... feature of neurons. However, the principles determining their structure are poorly understood. By employing cable theory and, for the firsttime, graph theory, we describe dendritic anatomy solely ... Alexander Borst3,4 and Idan Segev5,6Address: 1Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, Department of Physiology, University College London, UK, 2Department of Physiology, University ... taperingdiameters and homogenous integration of spatially dis-tributed inputs are characteristic of many dendrites; these principles may well therefore be applicable for manyother systems. In recent years,...