Neurobiology: the nerve cell

Principle and tasks

To use a nerve function model to study the following aspects of a nerve cell: intercellular potential and actionpotential.

What you can learn about

• Comparison between low and high threshold levels
• Comparison between low and high stimulus levels
• Membrane time constant and low passfiltering
• Membrane time constant
• Low-pass filtering
• Excitatory Synapse
• Depolarisation
• Temporal summation
• Spatial summation
• Synaptic amplification by terminal branches
• Effect of decreasing stimulus
• Hebbian synapse
• Synaptic learning and forgetting
• Inhibitory synapse
• Hyperpolarization
• Spacial inhibitory-excitatory summation
• Veto synapse

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