Neurophysiology

December 05, 2009

Signal-to-noise ratio in neuroscience

By Simon R Schultz (2007), Scholarpedia, 2(6):2046 Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) generically means the dimensionless ratio of signal power to noise power. It has a long history of being used in neuroscience as a measure of the fidelity of signal transmission...

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Neurophysiology

June 03, 2009

Classic neuroscience papers

Society for Neuroscience provides access to a sample of high impact classic papers addressing a range of neuroscience topics....

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Neurophysiology

March 04, 2009

NeuroConstruct

NeuroConstruct is a software for developing biologically realistic 3D neural network. It has been developed in the Silver Lab in the Department of Physiology at UCL....

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Neurophysiology

September 09, 2008

Performance evaluation of PCA-based spike sorting algorithms

Adamos DA, Kosmidis EK and Theophilidis G Deciphering the electrical activity of individual neurons from multi-unit noisy recordings is critical for understanding complex neural systems. A widely used spike sorting algorithm is being evaluated for single-electrode nerve trunk recordings. The...

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Neurophysiology

August 30, 2008

HHSim, a Hodgkin-Huxley graphical simulator

HHsim is a graphical simulation of a section of excitable neuronal membrane using the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. It provides full access to the Hodgkin-Huxley parameters, membrane parameters, stimulus parameters, and ion concentrations....

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Neurophysiology

August 21, 2008

Neural Ensemble Project

NeuralEnsemble is a multilateral effort to coordinate and organise Neuroscience software development efforts into a larger meta-simulator software system, a natural and alternate approach to incrementally address what is known as the complexity bottleneck, presently a major roadblock for neural...

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Posted to Neural Networks | Neurophysiology | Software | Statistical Analysis

Neurophysiology

July 21, 2008

Review: Reliability, synchrony and noise

This review describes a constructive role for noise in synchronizing populations of neurons. Trends Neurosci. 2008 Jul 4. [Epub ahead of print] Reliability, synchrony and noise. Ermentrout GB, Galán RF, Urban NN....

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Neurophysiology

April 04, 2008

New datasharing website for computational neuroscience

The new website http://www.crcns.org is available for sharing resources for computational neuroscience, such as high-quality experimental data sets, analytical tools and models....

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Neurophysiology

December 13, 2006

The Dana Guide to Brain Health: A Practical Family Reference from Medical Experts

The brain is probably the most important and yet mysterious organ of the human. As a major home health reference on the brain, Dana Guide to Brain Health "emphasizes how the latest scientific findings are being translated into actual...

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Neurophysiology

July 05, 2006

BrainML : a standard XML metaformat for exchanging neuroscience data

BrainML is a developing initiative to provide a standard XML metaformat for exchanging neuroscience data. It focuses on layered definitions built over a common core in order to support community-driven extension. One such extension is provided by the new NIH-supported...

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Neurophysiology

June 03, 2006

Membrane and Action Potential : Properties of Excitable Membranes

Neurophysiology is a study of neurons, nerves, and nervous systems, what they do and how they do it. A neuron is a cell that is specialized in two of the fundamental properties of living matter, namely excitability and conductivity. Excitability...

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