Simplified models of neocortical pyramidal cells preserving somatodendritic voltage attenuation

Neurocomputing

Volumn 38-40, Issue , 2001, Pages 167-173

  Destexhe, Alain ^a,b,c  

^a Unite de Neurosciences Integratives et Computationnelles   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Computational models; Dendritic integration; Network; Synaptic background activity

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

SOMATIC CURRENT INJECTION;

NEUROLOGY;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SIMULATION; SYNAPSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

EID: 0035383994     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00428-3     Document Type: Article

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