NEURON Summer Course

HANDS-ON EXERCISES

Table of Contents

1. Lipid Bilayer

3

2. Hodgkin - Huxley axon

5

3. Ball - Stick model

7

4. Model Control : Arbitrary forcing functions

23

5. Model Control : Simulation Families

29

6. Model Control : Inhomogeneous range variables

37

7. NMODL : HH type channels

47

8. NMODL : Kinetic Scheme : potassium channel

51

9. NMODL : Kinetic Scheme : calcium pump

73

10. MODLUNIT : changing pump units to picomoles/cm2

77

11. NMODL : Parameter Discontinuities : pulse stimulus

83

12. NMODL : Synapse : Sudden conductance change with exponential decay

85

13. NMODL : Synapse : G protein

91

14. Working with PostScript and idraw figures

97

15. Working with morphometric data

109

16. Vector/Matrix : Reading data

119

17. Vector/Matrix : Subtracting linear response

125

18. Network : cell templates and network connections

127

19. Analyzing electrotonus

131



Informal extras

Some useful hoc idioms

139

A short idraw exercise

141

SIMCTRL: Simulation Control for NEURON by Bill Lytton

(remote)

MyFirstNEURON by Arthur Houweling

(remote)


NEURON summer course
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