They investigate neuron cascades by examining how the brain actually functions. Physicists don't and can't, so they make mathematical models instead. These models are extensively tested under all ...

A computerized model provides a detailed biophysical representation of a neuron’s firing pattern. (Allen Institute for Brain Science via YouTube) Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science ...

Recently, a team from Tokyo University of Science used a computationally simple neuron model to simulate some of the complex responses of neurons. The brain is inarguably the single most important ...

The study, published in the August 26th issue of the journal Neuron, describes a critical mechanistic link between a mutant protein and disease pathogenesis in an animal model of amyotrophic ...

Which is why it's somewhat ironic that all the original attempts to model a brain were forced to ... a memristor that behaves a bit more like a neuron: its recent activity influences how it ...

Philipp Schlegel: At the level of neuron-to-neuron connections, our brains and those of insects are extremely similar, which is why Drosophila is such a great model system for studying how brains ...