Single Neuron Models

Neurons are generally considered as both the structural and functional units of the nervous system and also as its basic units for information processing. A single neuron and its models have been well studied. As examples to show how computational neuroscientists use mathematical and informatic ideas and approaches to solve neurobiological problems, a variety of single neuron models are discussed in this chapter, including the Hodgkin–Huxley model, the multi-compartmental model, the simplified model, and some simplified or generalized models of the H–H model. Dynamic analysis of some models mentioned above is also given, to show how such analysis might give us a theoretical framework to elucidate the variability of neuron behaviors.

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