Existence and stability of traveling pulses in a continuous neuronal network

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 954-984

  Pintot, David J ^a   Jackson, Russell K ^b   Wayne, C Eugene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Epileptic waves; Evans functions; Nonlocal equations

Indexed keywords

EPILEPTIC WAVES; EVANS FUNCTIONS; NONLOCAL EQUATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; WAVE EFFECTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 23944491928     PISSN: 15360040     EISSN: 15360040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040613020     Document Type: Article

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