Consequence of morphological alterations on synaptic function

Neurocomputing

Volumn 26-27, Issue , 1999, Pages 17-27

  Ghaffari Farazi, Taraneh ^a   Liaw, Jim Shih ^a   Berger, Theodore W ^a  

^a Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BRAIN MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL NEURAL STIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

CALCIUM DIFFUSION; HIPPOCAMPAL SYNAPSE; MORPHOLOGICAL ALTERATIONS; SYNAPTIC FUNCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

CALCIUM;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DIFFUSION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032878918     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(99)00084-3     Document Type: Article

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