The analysis of synaptically generated traveling waves

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-208

  Ermentrout, Bard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysical models; Integrate and fire; Propagation; Waves

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC);

BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; COUPLED NEURONS; DECAY RATE; INTEGRATE AND FIRES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; POWER-LAW; PROPAGATION; TRAVELLING WAVES; VELOCITY SCALE;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0031979622     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008822117809     Document Type: Article

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