Emergent bursting and synchrony in computer simulations of neuronal cultures

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MARCH 2012, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Maheswaranathan, Niru ^a   Ferrari, Silvia ^a   VanDongen, Antonius M J ^b   Henriquez, Craig S ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bursting; Computer simulations; Neuronal cultures; Small world networks; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

BURSTING; CORTICAL NEURONS; CORTICAL TISSUES; EXCITATORY NEURONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIRING PATTERNS; FIRING RATES; FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS; IN-SILICO; IN-VITRO; LONG-RANGE CONNECTION; NETWORK PARAMETERS; NEURONAL CULTURES; POPULATION LEVELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; SMALL WORLD NETWORKS; SPIKING NETWORKS; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS; SYNCHRONY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; NERVE CELL CULTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 84859072020     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00015     Document Type: Article

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