Effects of neural refractoriness on spatio-temporal variability in spike initiations with electrical stimulation

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 273-280

  Mino, Hiroyuki ^a,b,c   Rubinstein, Jay T ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c KANTO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; Auditory nerve fiber; Cochlear implants; Computer modeling; Computer simulation; Electrical stimulation; Fluctuations; Neural prosthesis; Refractoriness; Spike initiations; Stochastic ion channels; Temporal jitter

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AUDITORY NERVE FIBER; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER MODELING; ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; FLUCTUATIONS; NEURAL PROSTHESIS; REFRACTORINESS; SPIKE INITIATIONS; STOCHASTIC ION CHANNELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); PROSTHETICS; REFRACTORY MATERIALS;

NEUROLOGY;

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; HISTOGRAM; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANVIER NODE; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPIKE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 33749605617     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2006.881590     Document Type: Article

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