Weak noise in neurons may powerfully inhibit the generation of repetitive spiking but not its propagation.

Many neurons have epochs in which they fire action potentials in an approximately periodic fashion. To see what effects noise of relatively small amplitude has on such repetitive activity we recently examined the response of the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) space-clamped system to such noise as the mean and...

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Main Authors: Henry C Tuckwell, Jürgen Jost
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2877724?pdf=render