Identification of a free energy functional in an integro-differential equation model for neuronal network activity

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1047-1051

  French, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bump solutions; Energy functional; Integro differential equations; Neuronal networks

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

BUMP SOLUTIONS; ENERGY FUNCTIONAL; NEURONAL ACTIVITY;

INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 10644281036     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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