Hence, researchers often simulate the brain as a network of coupled neural masses, each described by a mean-field model. These models capture the essential features of neuronal populations while ...

Through measuring membrane potentials of cells in response to TI stimulation, Martinez found that when Pyr neurons are disconnected from the rest of the neural network, they no longer respond to ...

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A research team led by Professor Kazuaki Sawada and Project Assistant Professor Hideo Doi of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology has ...

Membrane biophysics is the study of the physical ... Animal toxins can modulate action potentials and are important leads for therapeutics. Here, the authors use cryo-EM to show the interaction ...

A research team led by Professor Kazuaki Sawada and Project Assistant Professor Hideo Doi of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information ...

Ion transport is the movement of ions across a membrane, passively through ion ... Animal toxins can modulate action potentials and are important leads for therapeutics. Here, the authors use ...

disconnected target membrane by tens of microvolts for tenths of a microsecond. Longer effects are simulated for target locations a few microns away. To simulate action potentials (APs), the paper ...

This additional neuronal dynamic will integrate well with other dynamic membrane potentials (e.g., the leaky integrated-and-fire, LIF) for a stronger temporal information computation. • Second, the ...

The semiconductor sensor developed by Toyohashi University enables real-time visualization of neurotransmitter and ion movements in biological samples.

Our nerve cells, or neurons, communicate by sending fast electrical signals called action potentials. These signals always begin ... the number of sodium channels in the plasma membrane increases to ...

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