Elucidating the mechanisms that underlie the physiological functions of the central nervous system remains an extraordinary challenge. In recent years, neurophysics has emerged as a new field. It provides powerful concepts and methods to link individual properties of neurons to collective phenomena in networks. At the same time, neurophysiologists have started to use in anaesthetized animals electrophysiological methods (Dynamic Clamp, Whole Cell Patch-Clamp recording...) that were (...)suite...