Compensating for synaptic loss in Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-37

  Abuhassan, Kamal ^a   Coyle, Damien ^a   Belatreche, Ammar ^a   Maguire, Liam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Electroencephalography (EEG); Izhikevich neuron model; Large scale network model; Message passing interface; Synaptic compensation mechanisms; Synaptic loss

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MESSAGE PASSING; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

ALZHEIMERS DISEASE; COMPENSATION MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IZHIKEVICH NEURON MODEL; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK MODEL; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MESSAGE-PASSING; NETWORK MODELS; SYNAPTIC COMPENSATION MECHANISM; SYNAPTIC LOSS;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC COMPENSATION; SYNAPTIC DEGENERATION; SYNAPTIC LOSS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THETA RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84893802132     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-013-0462-8     Document Type: Article

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