axial currents

[mflynn]

Does NEURON use voltages to calculate currents or vice versa? I am trying to calculate axial currents, do I need to take into account the current leaving through the membrane? I think if NEURON uses the currents to calculate the voltage, then I can just use the potential difference between segments and divide by the axial resistance, since other current sources would automatically be factored into the voltage. I just want to make sure I am doing this accurately.

Thanks,
Mark

[ted]

Does NEURON use voltages to calculate currents or vice versa?

It calculates both from each other. For more details see chapter 4 of The NEURON Book,
or read
Hines, M.L. and Carnevale, N.T.
The NEURON simulation environment.
Neural Computation 9:1179-1209, 1997.
which you can obtain from http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/bib/nrnpubs.html

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