The Complete Neuron
This is the current project and is unfinished. Always has been. Always will be.
A typical neuron with all its component parts (Synapses,Dendrites, Soma and Axon) has a membrane surface area of about 250,000 µm2. The surface area of the 86 billion neurons that make up the human brain is therefor about 25,000 m2 or roughly the size of four football fields.
This expanse of membrane constitutes the fabric of our minds.
This is an image of what can be setup with the NeuronLab simulator
Full Size image here:
Video - Download and install
Video - Quick Start
Video - First Complete Neuron
Video -Time Constant (TBD)
Video -Length Constant (TBD)
Video -Bursting Neurons (TBD)
Video -Dendrite In Action(TBD)
Video -EPSP Summation(TBD)
Video -Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity (TBD Purves 8.0)
Simple Model of Spiking Neurons
In Izhikevich's book 'Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience' he develops a model that is:
- Computationally simple
- Capable of producting firing patters exhibited by biological neurons
In chapter 8 he uses various parameter setting to achieve simulations of:
- Regular Spiking [RS]
- Intrinsically Bursting [IB]
- Cat primary visual chattering [CH]
- Low Threshold Spiking [LTS]
- Layer 5 rat visual cortex interneuron [FS]
- Cat Dorsal thalamocortical [TC]
- Rat reticular thalamic Nucleus [RTN]
The NeuronLab simulator can produce these waveforms and allow you experiment with the parameter stttings as you wish. This video will guid you through the setup and use of this feature.
