This article relates to a neurological event; for the railway-related activity, see shunter and shunt (railway operations). A switcher or shunter ( Great Britain: shunter; Australia: shunter or yard pilot; USA: switcher (or

Shunting is an event in the neuron which occurs when an excitatory postsynaptic potential and an inhibitory postsynaptic potential are occurring close to each other on a dendrite, or are both on the soma of the cell. Neurons (ˈnjuːɹɒn also known as neurones and nerve cells) are responsive cells in the Nervous system that process and transmit information In Neuroscience, an excitatory postsynaptic potential ( EPSP) is a temporary depolarization of postsynaptic Membrane potential caused by the flow of positively An Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potential (commonly abbreviated as IPSP) is the change in membrane voltage of a postsynaptic Neuron which results from synaptic Dendrites (from Greek δένδρον déndron, “tree” are the branched projections of a Neuron that act to conduct the electrochemical The soma, or cyton or perikaryon, is the bulbous end of a Neuron, containing the Cell nucleus.

See also

• Spatial summation
• Temporal summation

Spatial summation is a way of achieving Action potential in a Neuron which involves input from multiple cells Temporal summation is an effect generated by a single Neuron as a way of achieving Action potential.

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