COMMENT
    Introduces a spine area scale factor as a range variable.
    This doesn't do magic: it will NOT automatically correct
    for spines. You will still have to multiply surface-dependent
    variables (capacitance, conductances) with scale_spines.
    Copied from 
    http://www.northwestern.edu/neurobiology/faculty/spruston/sk_models/JP_2005/Attenuation.zip
    last retrieved 02-2007
    Golding NL, Mickus TJ, Katz Y, Kath WL, Spruston N (2005)
    Factors mediating powerful voltage attenuation along CA1 
    pyramidal neuron dendrites. J Physiol (Lond) 568:69-82.
    
    2007-05-15, CSH, University of Freiburg 
ENDCOMMENT

NEURON {
    SUFFIX spines
    RANGE scale, count
}

PARAMETER {
    scale = 1
    count = 0
}