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Why is saltatory conduction faster than continuous conduction?
How does spacing apart sodium and potassium channels allow the action potential to travel faster down the axon? This is the reason always cited for saltatory conduction and myelination, but my mental ...
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Is there a biophysical causation from local field potential (LFP) to spikes?
Many experiments showed that neurons tend to fire at some phase (usually trough) of local field potential (LFP) oscillations, such as theta or gamma rhythm. LFP is supposedly generated by a population ...
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Is “exhaustion” of the Hodgkin-Huxley membrane at constant stimulation a real phenomenon?
I was playing around with a simulation of the Hodgkin-Huxley model using their original parameters for the squid giant axon.
By applying a constant stimulation current to the model in resting state, ...
