Neurons are poised near the edge of chaos

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Chua, Leon ^a,b   Sbitnev, Valery ^a,c   Kim, Hyongsuk ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Action potential; axons; basin of attraction; complexity; complexity function; edge of chaos; eigenvalues; Hodgkin Huxley axon; Hodgkin Huxley equations; Hopf bifurcation; limit cycles; local activity; memristor; neurons; spikes; stability; subcritical Hopf bifurcation; super critical Hopf bifurcation

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; NEURONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AXONS; BASIN OF ATTRACTION; COMPLEXITY; COMPLEXITY FUNCTIONS; EDGE OF CHAOS; EIGENVALUES; HODGKIN-HUXLEY AXON; HODGKIN-HUXLEY EQUATIONS; LIMIT-CYCLE; LOCAL ACTIVITY; MEMRISTOR; SPIKES; SUBCRITICAL HOPF BIFURCATION;

HOPF BIFURCATION;

EID: 84860214648     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127412500988     Document Type: Article

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