Characterizing neuronal activity by describing the membrane potential as a stochastic process

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 98-106

  Pospischil, Martin ^a   Piwkowska, Zuzanna ^a   Bal, Thierry ^a   Destexhe, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Computational models; Dynamic clamp; Fokker Planck; Membrane potential fluctuations; Synaptic noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICS; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 70249106025     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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