Outline of "Construction and Use of Models: Part 1. Elementary tools"

This outline is based on my first talk at our course "Using the NEURON Simulation Environment" that was presented on Oct. 25, 1997 at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, LA. It will help you get started creating models and managing them with the graphical user interface.

This link will get you a pkzipped collection of these html files and images. Unzip this file to create a new directory subtree whose root is a directory called element. The entry to this outline is element/outline.htm

If you have any questions after reviewing these slides, please let me know!

--Ted Carnevale [ted dot carnevale at yale dot edu]

Introduction

Example

Step 1: Write the hoc source code

Step 2: Execute hoc source code

Step 3: Build user interface

	Our starting point: NEURON Main Panel
	We need a "Run" button: Bringing up the RunControl window The RunControl window Init, Init & Run Stop, Continue til, Continue for, Single Step t, Tstop, dt, Points plotted/ms
	We need to plot results: Bringing up a Graph window The v(t) Graph window
	We need a stimulator: Bringing up the PointProcessManager The PointProcessManager window Create a current clamp The current clamp parameters

Step 4: Use interface

	Setting stimulus parameters 1. "Spinner" 2. "Direct entry" into numeric field 3. "Mathematical expression" in numeric field
	Running the simulation What the interface looks like Run the simulation Decrease stimulus and rerun
	Changing the model by revising model code or by using the graphical interface The Distributed Mechanism Inserter Rerunning the simulation The new interface

Step 5: Save/Retrieve interface

	How to save what we built All the NEURON graphical windows that are open Choosing which to save Saving the selected windows Naming the "saved session" file
	Suppose you have exited NEURON and now you want to start over. How do you get back what you had saved? Using the file chooser It's baaack . . . . . . and it works!

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