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- Third Party Resource Title: Simulating Passive Properties of Neurons Using MATLAB
- Third Party Resource Link: https://serc.carleton.edu/teaching_computation/workshop_2018/activities/211224.html
- Description: This lab activity simulates a fundamental concept in cellular neuroscience; namely that all neurons can be modelled as circuits (i.e., the equivalent circuit) composed of resistors and capacitors in parallel. The students interact with a MATLAB script that simulates a simple neuron and shows how changes in resistance and/or capacitance produce quantitative and qualitative changes in the response of the model. Students then use MATLAB to test their quantitative predictions of the model cell's responses by fitting the response to an exponential function. In this way, students get a practical experience with this fundamental concept prior to using the same protocols on biological neurons.
- Publish Year: 2018
- Institution: California State University Sacramento
