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BMC Neuroscience publishes selected collections of research articles, conference proceedings, reviews and reports as supplements, which are free to access online. All articles published in supplements are subject to peer review; meeting abstracts undergo review and selection by the conference. Find out more about publishing a supplement with BioMed Central.

Volume 9 Supplement 1

Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2008

Meeting abstracts

Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2008

Portland, OR, USA

19-24 July 2008

Edited by William R Holmes

Publication of this supplement was sponsored by Royal Society Publishing, Neuralynx, Springer, MIT Press and National Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience

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Introduction   Open Access

Computational Neuroscience (CNS*2008)

William R Holmes, Ranu Jung, Patrick Roberts BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):I1 (11 July 2008)

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Alternating perceptions of ambiguous scenes: what's out there?

John Rinzel BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):L1 (11 July 2008)

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Modules in molecular memory

Upinder S Bhalla BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):L2 (11 July 2008)

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Signaling pathways underlying striatal synaptic plasticity and reward learning

Kim T Blackwell BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):L3 (11 July 2008)

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Computational neuroscience and systems biology: the past, the now and the future

Erik De Schutter BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):L4 (11 July 2008)

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CaM kinases and AMPA receptor subunit recomposition in hippocampal synaptic plasticity

Victor Derkach BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):L5 (11 July 2008)

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Single-molecule tracking of raft-based signal transduction: a system of digital signal transduction?

Akihiro Kusumi BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):L6 (11 July 2008)

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Kalman filter control of a model of spatiotemporal cortical dynamics

Steven J Schiff, Tim Sauer BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O1 (11 July 2008)

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Bin-width selected for Brain-Machine Interfaces optimizes rate decoding

Miriam Zacksenhouse, Mikhail A Lebedev, Miguel AL Nicolelis BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O2 (11 July 2008)

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Information flow in local cortical networks is not democratic

Aonan Tang, Christopher J Honey, Jon Hobbs, Alexander Sher, Alan M Litke, Olaf Sporns, John M Beggs BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O3 (11 July 2008)

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Parameter dependent changes in strength of phase locking in a stochastic simulated central pattern generator

David L Boothe, Avis H Cohen, Todd W Troyer BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O4 (11 July 2008)

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Noise-induced bursting in stochastic models of single cells and electrically coupled ensembles

Georgi Medvedev BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O5 (11 July 2008)

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Local inhibition shapes afferent excitatory drive of output neurons in the songbird basal ganglia network

Arthur Leblois, David J Perkel BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O6 (11 July 2008)

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Characterizing the transient K+ current contribution to subthreshold membrane potential oscillations in a hippocampal interneuron model

Darrell Haufler, France Morin, Jean-Claude Lacaille, Frances Skinner BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O7 (11 July 2008)

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One cell, two bursting mechanisms. In vivo conditions change the in vitro burst in pyramidal cells of the ElectroLateral Lobe (ELL) of electric fish

Natalia Toporikova, Maurice J Chacron BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O8 (11 July 2008)

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Ion concentration dynamics: mechanisms for bursting and seizing

JR Cressman, G Ullah, J Ziburkus, SJ Schiff, E Barreto BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O9 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling of the receptor, G-protein and effector reactions in vertebrate olfactory receptor neurons

Geir Halnes, Erik Ulfhielm, Jeanette Kotaleski, Jean-Pierre Rospars BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O10 (11 July 2008)

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A neural-glial network for modeling spreading depression in cortex

William Gibson, Les Farnell, Max Bennett BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O11 (11 July 2008)

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Synaptic integration in the deep cerebellar nuclei: comparing dynamic clamp results with a computer model of somatic or distributed dendritic input

Risa Lin, Svenja Metz, Dieter Jaeger BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O12 (11 July 2008)

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An online Hebbian learning rule that performs independent component analysis

Claudia Clopath, André Longtin, Wulfram Gerstner BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O13 (11 July 2008)

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Symmetry breaking induced by Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity in the presence of recurrent connections

Matthieu Gilson, David B Grayden, Doreen A Thomas, J Leo van Hemmen, Anthony N Burkitt BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):O14 (11 July 2008)

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Cerebellar timing and negative patterning

Horatiu Voicu BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P1 (11 July 2008)

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Investigating the effect of Cortical Discharge Variability on the accuracy of population decoders

Mehdi Aghagolzadeh, Karim Oweiss BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P2 (11 July 2008)

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Inhibition dominates in shaping in vitro spontaneous hippocampal network rhythms

Ernest CY Ho, Liang Zhang, Frances K Skinner BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P3 (11 July 2008)

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Temporal spike pattern learning

Sachin S Talathi, Henry DI Abarbanel, William L Ditto BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P4 (11 July 2008)

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Network effects of age-related NMDA reduction in a model of working memory

Patrick J Coskren, Jennifer I Luebke, Aniruddha Yadav, Patrick R Hof, Susan L Wearne BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P5 (11 July 2008)

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On the propagation of firing rate and synchrony in a model of cortical network

Arvind Kumar, Stefan Rotter, Ad Aertsen BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P6 (11 July 2008)

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Capturing correlation structure within a simplified population density framework

Chin-Yueh Liu, Duane Q Nykamp BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P7 (11 July 2008)

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Electric field modulation of theta and gamma rhythms: probe into network connectivity

Julia Berzhanskaya, Steven J Schiff, Giorgio A Ascoli BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P8 (11 July 2008)

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Synchrony-asynchrony transitions in neuronal networks

Ramana Dodla, Charles J Wilson BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P9 (11 July 2008)

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BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P10 (11 July 2008)

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BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P11 (11 July 2008)

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Study of additional mechanism of short time delay detection in input signal by the homological neural network

Viacheslav A Vasilkov, Ruben A Tikidji-Hamburyan BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P12 (11 July 2008)

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BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P13 (11 July 2008)

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Sparse network models reproduce experimentally observed spike timing jitter during inspiratory population rhythms in the pre-Bötzinger complex

Michael S Carroll, Jan-Marino Ramirez BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P14 (11 July 2008)

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Optimal neural connection mechanism in cortical network

Qingbai Zhao, Yi-Yuan Tang BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P15 (11 July 2008)

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Analysis of stochastic integration with a network of bistable units

Rita Almeida, Anders Ledberg BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P16 (11 July 2008)

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Information transmission between recurrent neural networks by sparsely electrical connections

Andreas Herzog, Bernd Michaelis, Ana D de Lima, Thomas Baltz, Thomas Voigt BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P17 (11 July 2008)

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Functional structure from dynamic clustering of spike train data

Sarah Feldt, Jack Waddell, Vaughn L Hetrick, Joshua D Berke, Michal Zochowski BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P18 (11 July 2008)

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Inferring neuronal functional connectivity using dynamic Bayesian networks

Seif Eldawlatly, Yang Zhou, Rong Jin, Karim Oweiss BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P19 (11 July 2008)

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Large-scale synapse-level neuronal wiring diagrams in silico and in vitro

Upinder S Bhalla, Radhika Madhavan, Ashesh Dhawale, Mehrab Modi, Raamesh Deshpande, Niraj Dudani, Subhasis Ray BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P20 (11 July 2008)

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Intrinsic current generated, omnidirectional phase precession and grid field scaling in toroidal attractor model of medial entorhinal path integration

Zaneta Navratilova, Jean-Marc Fellous, Bruce L McNaughton BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P21 (11 July 2008)

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Is hippocampal phase precession a useful temporal code?

Omar J Ahmed, Mayank R Mehta BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P22 (11 July 2008)

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Neural network model of the lateral accessory lobe and ventral protocerebrum of Bombyx mori to generate the flip-flop activity

Ikuko Nishikawa, Masayoshi Nakaumura, Yoshiki Igarashi, Tomoki Kazawa, Hidetoshi Ikeno, Ryohei Kanzaki BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P23 (11 July 2008)

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Approximating the phase response curves of square wave bursting neurons

Ikemefuna Agbanusi, Alborz Yarahmadi, Amitabha Bose, Jorge Golowasch, Farzan Nadim BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P24 (11 July 2008)

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System identification of the crab cardiac neuromuscular transform by a new method

Estee Stern, Keyla García-Crescioni, Mark W Miller, Charles S Peskin, Vladimir Brezina BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P25 (11 July 2008)

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Mathematical modeling of isoflurane action on lamprey spinal neurons

Tamara J Schlichter, Anne C Smith, Steven L Jinks, Timothy J Lewis BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P26 (11 July 2008)

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Effects of muscle strength and activation profile on foot drag in a simulated SCI rat

Brian K Hillen, James Abbas, Devin Jindrich, Ranu Jung BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P27 (11 July 2008)

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Temporal variability in a synfire chain model of birdsong

Christopher M Glaze, Todd W Troyer BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P28 (11 July 2008)

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A memoryless, stochastic mechanism of timing of phases of behavior by a neural network controller

Saaniya Contractor, Nataliya Kozlova, Vladimir Brezina BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P29 (11 July 2008)

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Measuring spike train reliability

Thomas Kreuz, Daniel Chicharro, Ralph G Andrzejak, Julie S Haas, Henry DI Abarbanel, Alessandro Torcini, Antonio Politi BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P30 (11 July 2008)

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Transcriptional regulation network analysis of the hypertension-perturbed nucleus tractus solitarius

Gregory E Gonye, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Haiping Hao, James S Schwaber BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P31 (11 July 2008)

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Probabilistic models and inference algorithms for neuronal decoding of UP and DOWN states

Zhe Chen, Sujith Vijayan, Riccardo Barbieri, Matthew A Wilson, Emery N Brown BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P32 (11 July 2008)

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The reverse connectivity pattern between Broca's area and the left visual word form area in the processing of Chinese words and English characters

Yi-Yuan Tang, Shigang Feng, Qingbao Yu, Qilin Lu BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P33 (11 July 2008)

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Effective connectivity analysis of global and local mental imagery by dynamic causal modeling

Jian Li, Danni Sui, Yi-Yuan Tang BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P34 (11 July 2008)

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Roles of prefrontal cortical GABAergic interneurons in psychosis and cognitive deficits in schizophrenia

Shoji Tanaka BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P36 (11 July 2008)

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Dynamics of self-sustained microcircuits examined with regular-spiking readouts

Raul C Mureşan BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P37 (11 July 2008)

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Biologically plausible statistics from a Markov model of spiking cortical networks

Marc Benayoun, Edward Wallace, Tanya Baker, Jack Cowan, Wim van Drongelen BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P38 (11 July 2008)

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A novel method for modelling nonlinear dynamical systems applied to the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron

Caitriona Boushel, Paul Curran BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P39 (11 July 2008)

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Information dynamics in dopaminergic networks

Amir Assadi, Hesam Dashti-Torabi, Mary Kloc, Gregory Michelotti, Tong H Lee BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P40 (11 July 2008)

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Effects of the axonal leak conductance on energy and information

Patrick Crotty, Jeffrey Seely BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P41 (11 July 2008)

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Calcium sensor properties for activity-dependent homeostatic regulation of pyloric network rhythms in the lobster stomatogastric ganglion

Cengiz Günay, Ryan M Hooper, K Richard Hammett, Astrid A Prinz BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P42 (11 July 2008)

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Using axon models to interpret electrodiagnostic nerve tests

Karl Jensen, Thu NA Luu, Kelvin E Jones BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P43 (11 July 2008)

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Active dendritic conductances enhance processing of plastic synaptic stimuli

Vladislav Volman, Herbert Levine, Terrence J Sejnowski BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P44 (11 July 2008)

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KA channels reduce dendritic depolarization from synchronized synaptic input: implication for neural processing and epilepsy

Jenny Tigerholm, Erik Fransén BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P45 (11 July 2008)

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Nicotine and the dopaminergic output of the ventral tegmental area

Michael Graupner, Boris Gutkin BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P46 (11 July 2008)

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Multi-scale modeling of angiotensin II induced neuronal regulatory mechanisms in the brain

Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Dirk Fey, James S Schwaber BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P47 (11 July 2008)

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Topological ion channel noise and its implications for the neuronal dynamics

Marifi Güler BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P48 (11 July 2008)

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Non-conductive vs. conductive cell membranes – a reassessment of this assumption when modeling cells under magnetic field stimulation

Hui Ye, Marija Cotic, Peter L Carlen BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P49 (11 July 2008)

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Wiener kernel estimation and frequency domain analysis of cortical pyramidal cells

Jennifer Dwyer, Amber Martell, Hyong C Lee, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Wim van Drongelen BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P50 (11 July 2008)

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Why are pyramidal cell firing rates increased with aging, and what can we do about it?

A Yadav, Christina M Weaver, Yuan Z Gao, Jennifer I Luebke, Susan L Wearne BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P51 (11 July 2008)

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Cost of linearization for different time constants

Danielle Morel, William B Levy BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P52 (11 July 2008)

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Systematic selection of model parameter values matching biological behavior under different simulation scenarios

Tomasz G Smolinski, Cristina Soto-Treviño, Pascale Rabbah, Farzan Nadim, Astrid A Prinz BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P53 (11 July 2008)

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The self-sustained regulation of PKMζ activity during the maintenance of L-LTP

Naveed Aslam, Harel Z Shouval BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P54 (11 July 2008)

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Voltage attenuation in reconstructed type-identified motor neurons as a constraint for reduced models

Hojeong Kim, Lora A Major, Kelvin E Jones BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P55 (11 July 2008)

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Effect of membrane property modulations by dopamine on synchronous/asynchronous activity in a network of globus pallidus externus

Katsunori Kitano, Tomohiro Fujita, Tomoki Fukai BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P56 (11 July 2008)

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Modulation of synaptically induced burst strength and spike onset timing by inactivating KIR currents in medium spiny neurons

John Steephen, Rohit Manchanda BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P57 (11 July 2008)

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Investigating the interaction of transcranial magnetic stimulation with a model cortical neuron

David McKay, Allan D Coop, Jack L Lancaster, Peter T Fox BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P58 (11 July 2008)

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Signal processing in posterior-canal bouton vestibular primary afferents

Jose Ambros-Ingerson, Michael H Rowe, Ellengene H Peterson, William R Holmes BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P59 (11 July 2008)

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Integration of anatomical and physiological connectivity data sets for layered cortical network models

Tobias C Potjans, Markus Diesmann BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P60 (11 July 2008)

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A computational model of the basal ganglia as a rewarded activity selection circuit with non-specific output

David RJ Hunn, Stephen I Helms Tillery BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P61 (11 July 2008)

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Self-sustaining non-repetitive activity in a large scale neuronal-level model of the hippocampal circuit

Ruggero Scorcioni, David J Hamilton, Giorgio A Ascoli BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P62 (11 July 2008)

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Optimizing artificial neurons to be successful Reichardt detectors

Benjamin Torben-Nielsen, Klaus M Stiefel BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P63 (11 July 2008)

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Assessment of tamoxifen effects on nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in rat developing hippocampus

Maliheh Nobakht, Maasoumeh Shafiee, Parvaneh Tabatabaeei BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P64 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling of potentiation as cascaded gated processes; relevance to learning and seizure

Steve Adkins BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P65 (11 July 2008)

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Computation by neural and cortical systems

Robert L Fry BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P66 (11 July 2008)

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Determinants of pattern recognition by cerebellar Purkinje cells

Giseli de Sousa, Rod Adams, Neil Davey, Volker Steuber BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P67 (11 July 2008)

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Automatic recognition and statistical quantification of spatial patterns of gene expression in zebra finch brain in response to auditory stimulation

Ovidiu D Iancu, Tarciso Velho, Patrick Roberts, Claudio V Mello BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P68 (11 July 2008)

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Properties of synaptic plasticity rules implementing actor-critic temporal-difference learning

Wiebke Potjans, Abigail Morrison, Markus Diesmann BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P69 (11 July 2008)

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From multiple neural cortical networks to motor mechanical behavior: the importance of inherent learning over separable space-time length scales

Kanuresh Ganguly, Elizabeth B Torres, Jorge V José, Jose M Carmena BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P70 (11 July 2008)

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Learning Bayesian network structure based on the classification and regression tree

Yan Sun, Yi-Yuan Tang BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P71 (11 July 2008)

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Spike-based reinforcement learning of navigation

Eleni Vasilaki, Robert Urbanczik, Walter Senn, Wulfram Gerstner BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P72 (11 July 2008)

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A new synthetic face generation method for gender discrimination

Ali Borji BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P73 (11 July 2008)

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Structured control from self-organizing arm movements

Katja Fiedler, Georg Martius, Frank Hesse, J Michael Herrmann BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P74 (11 July 2008)

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Operant behavior controlled by position of a moving object – a reinforcement learning model

Cyril Brom, Daniel Klement, Michal Preuss BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P75 (11 July 2008)

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Neurocomputational modeling of imitation deficits

Biljana Petreska, Aude G Billard BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P76 (11 July 2008)

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Nonlinear diffusion models of detection

Daniel Martí, Anders Ledberg, Gustavo Deco BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P77 (11 July 2008)

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Emergence of sensory selection mechanisms in Artificial Life simulations

Carolina Feher da Silva, Nestor Caticha, Marcus Baldo BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P78 (11 July 2008)

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Theoretical derivation of EMOTION-I model for emotional feel of sensation

David Tam BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P79 (11 July 2008)

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Theoretical derivation of EMOTION-II model for happy and unhappy emotions

David Tam BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P80 (11 July 2008)

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Improved automatic midline tracing of neurites with Neuromantic

Darren R Myatt, Slawomir J Nasuto BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P81 (11 July 2008)

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Database analysis and visualization of simulated and recorded electrophysiological data with PANDORA's Toolbox in Matlab

Cengiz Günay, Dieter Jaeger BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P82 (11 July 2008)

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A general method for creating realistic reduced compartmental models from electrophysiological traces

Eric B Hendrickson, Jeremy R Edgerton, Dieter Jaeger BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P83 (11 July 2008)

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Using Neurofitter to fit a Purkinje cell model to experimental data

Werner Van Geit, Erik De Schutter BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P84 (11 July 2008)

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Reaction-diffusion in complex 3D geometries: mesh construction and stochastic simulation with STEPS

Stefan Wils, Erik De Schutter BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P85 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling stochastic calcium dynamics in the dendritic spines: a hybrid algorithm

Georgios Kalantzis, Yoshihisa Kubota, Harel Z Shouval BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P86 (11 July 2008)

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The role of the Neurospaces project browser in the GENESIS 3 software federation: Design and targets

Hugo Cornelis, Allan D Coop, James M Bower BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P87 (11 July 2008)

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The CBI architecture for computational simulation of realistic neurons and circuits in the GENESIS 3 software federation

Hugo Cornelis, Michael Edwards, Allan D Coop, James M Bower BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P88 (11 July 2008)

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A new software center for the neuroinformatics community

Raphael Ritz, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Per Strandberg, Anders Larsson, Ylva Lillberg, Elli Chatzopoulou, Pontus Holm, Mikael Naeslund, Hui Wang, Jan G Bjaalie BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P89 (11 July 2008)

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Genetic algorithm modification to speed up parameter fitting for a multicompartment neuron model

Ruben A Tikidji-Hamburyan BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P90 (11 July 2008)

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NeuroCAD – the modular simulation environment for effective biologically plausible neuromodeling

Ruben A Tikidji-Hamburyan, Sergey N Markin BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P91 (11 July 2008)

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Brian: a simulator for spiking neural networks in Python

Dan Goodman, Romain Brette BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P92 (11 July 2008)

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A general biological simulator: the multiscale object oriented simulation environment, MOOSE

Subhasis Ray, Raamesh Deshpande, Niraj Dudani, Upinder S Bhalla BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P93 (11 July 2008)

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Spike overlap resolution of electrode and tetrode data from primary visual cortex

Yasamin Mokri, Shih-Cheng Yen BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P94 (11 July 2008)

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Axon guidance simulation: a multi-agent approach

Rui P Costa, Luís Macedo BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P95 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling the development of maps of complex cells

Jan Antolik, James A Bednar BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P96 (11 July 2008)

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A mechanism for temporal sequence learning and recognition in neural systems

Sean Byrnes, Anthony N Burkitt, Hamish Meffin, Chris Trengove, David B Grayden BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P97 (11 July 2008)

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Role of plasticity in coincidence detection in the avian auditory brainstem

Lakshmi Chandrasekaran, Amitabha Bose BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P98 (11 July 2008)

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The effect of Hebbian plasticity on the attractors of a dynamical system

Junmei Zhu BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P99 (11 July 2008)

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Synaptic symmetry breaking by spike timing dependent synaptic plasticity

Chang-Woo Shin, Seunghwan Kim BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P100 (11 July 2008)

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Can calcium ion contribute to morphological plasticity of a spine?

Keiji Nozawa, Kazuhisa Ichikawa BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P101 (11 July 2008)

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Translational switch for long term maintenance of synaptic plasticity

Naveed Aslam, Yoshi Kubota, Harel Z Shouval BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P102 (11 July 2008)

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Spatiotemporal molecular dynamics and synaptic plasticity

Georgios Kalantzis, Harel Z Shouval BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P103 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling structural plasticity in dendrites with multiple spine types

Steven Baer, Sharon Crook, Michael McCamy BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P104 (11 July 2008)

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GABAergic control of backpropagating action potentials in striatal medium spiny neurons

Johannes Hjorth, Misha Zilberter, Rodrigo F Oliveira, Kim T Blackwell, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P105 (11 July 2008)

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Cellular Dynamic Simulator: an event driven molecular simulation environment

Michael J Byrne, M Neal Waxham, Yoshihisa Kubota BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P106 (11 July 2008)

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Results from a novel Cellular Dynamics Simulator reveal a quantitative mechanism for Ca2+-CaM activation in dendritic spines

Yoshihisa Kubota, Michael J Byrne, M Neal Waxham BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P107 (11 July 2008)

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Neurogranin provides a kinetic proof reading mechanism for decoding Ca2+ signals that may govern the induction of synaptic plasticity

Yoshihisa Kubota, M Neal Waxham BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P108 (11 July 2008)

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A computational model of dopamine and tyramine interactions in striatal storage vesicles

Lane J Wallace, Laura E Connell BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P109 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling the GABA and ephaptic feedback mechanisms in cat outer retina

Shaojie Chang, Steven M Baer, Sharon M Crook, Carl L Gardner, Christian Ringhofer BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P110 (11 July 2008)

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A hierarchical predictive coding model of visual processing

Boris Vladimirskiy, Walter Senn, Robert Urbanczik BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P111 (11 July 2008)

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Simulating mirror-neuron responses using a neural model for visual action recognition

Falk Fleischer, Antonino Casile, Martin A Giese BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P112 (11 July 2008)

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Evaluating feedforward spiking neuron networks using a novel decoding strategy

Nathan D VanderKraats, Arunava Banerjee BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P113 (11 July 2008)

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Adaptation in the anuran auditory system contributes to nonlinear response properties of peripheral and midlevel neurons

Janine M Wotton, Michael J Ferragamo, Katie L Halvorson BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P114 (11 July 2008)

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How gamma-band oscillatory activity participates in encoding of naturalistic stimuli in random networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons

Alberto Mazzoni, Nicolas Brunel, Stefano Panzeri BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P115 (11 July 2008)

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Independence of space-based and feature-based attention in the determination of figure direction

Nobuhiko Wagatsuma, Ryohei Shimizu, Ko Sakai BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P116 (11 July 2008)

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Optimal sigmoidal tuning curves for intensity encoding sensory neurons with quasi-Poisson variability

Mark D McDonnell, Nigel G Stocks BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P117 (11 July 2008)

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Computing linear approximations to nonlinear neuronal responses

Melinda E Koelling, Duane Q Nykamp BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P118 (11 July 2008)

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Amplitude modulation discrimination in a model of the electrically stimulated auditory nerve

Joshua H Goldwyn, Eric Shea-Brown BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P119 (11 July 2008)

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Effects of passive dendritic properties on the dynamics of an oscillating neuron

Michael A Schwemmer, Timothy J Lewis BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P120 (11 July 2008)

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What you show is what you get: sampling biases in determining biological sensory function

Alexander G Dimitrov BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P121 (11 July 2008)

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Spike sorting should be biased for optimal neural control prostheses

Ilan N Goodman, Don H Johnson BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P122 (11 July 2008)

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Fuzzy interval representation of olfactory stimulus concentration in an olfactory glomerulus model

Malin Sandström, Thomas Proschinger, Anders Lansner BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P123 (11 July 2008)

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Computing a generative model for neural codes

Carlos M Herrera, Curtis T Luce, Joe Song, Patricia M Di Lorenzo BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P124 (11 July 2008)

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Responses of primary visual cortical neurons to natural movies in anesthetized cat

Shih-Cheng Yen, Jonathan Baker, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Charles M Gray BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P125 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling the transformation from LGN to V1 color-opponent receptive fields

Sarah M Maynard, Bevil R Conway, Mark S Goldman BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P126 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling spike-count dependence structures with multivariate Poisson distributions

Arno Onken, Klaus Obermayer BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P127 (11 July 2008)

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Multidimensional patterns of neuronal activity: how do we see them?

Ovidiu F Jurjut, Danko Nikolić, Wolf Singer, Dirk Metzler, Raul C Mureşan BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P128 (11 July 2008)

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Neural representations of visual salience in primary visual cortex

Jit Bong, Shih-Cheng Yen, Rodrigo F Salazar, Charles M Gray BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P129 (11 July 2008)

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A simple spiking retina model for exact video stimulus representation

Aurel A Lazar, Eftychios A Pnevmatikakis BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P130 (11 July 2008)

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Comparison of methods to calculate exact spike times in integrate-and-fire neurons with exponential currents

Alexander Hanuschkin, Susanne Kunkel, Moritz Helias, Abigail Morrison, Markus Diesmann BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P131 (11 July 2008)

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The effect of rectifying gap junctions on phase-locking in neuronal networks

Donald French, Tamara J Schlichter, Timothy J Lewis BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P132 (11 July 2008)

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Predicting phase-locking in excitatory hybrid circuits

Fred H Sieling, Carmen C Canavier, Astrid A Prinz BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P133 (11 July 2008)

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Predicting excitatory phase resetting curves in bursting neurons

Selva K Maran, Fred H Sieling, Astrid A Prinz, Carmen C Canavier BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P134 (11 July 2008)

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Phase response curves determine network activity of all to all networks of pulse coupled oscillators

Srisairam Achuthan, Carmen C Canavier BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P135 (11 July 2008)

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Predicting n:1 locking in pulse coupled two-neuron networks using phase resetting theory

Fatma Gurel Kazanci, Selva K Maran, Astrid A Prinz, Carmen C Canavier BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P136 (11 July 2008)

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A neurobiological model of the human sleep/wake cycle

Michael J Rempe, Janet Best, David Terman BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P137 (11 July 2008)

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Signal discrimination performed by population of spiking neurons enhanced by a background gamma oscillations

Naoki Masuda, Brent Doiron BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P138 (11 July 2008)

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Noise-induced transitions in slow wave neuronal dynamics

Sukbin Lim, John Rinzel BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P139 (11 July 2008)

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A simplified model of dopaminergic neuron

Sorinel Oprisan BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P140 (11 July 2008)

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Correlation susceptibility and single neuron computation

Sungho Hong, Erik De Schutter BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P141 (11 July 2008)

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Phase and frequency synchronization analysis of NMDA-induced network oscillation

Amber Martell, Hyong C Lee, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Wim van Drongelen BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P142 (11 July 2008)

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Theory of neuronal spike densities for synchronous activity in cortical feed-forward networks

Sven Goedeke, Tilo Schwalger, Markus Diesmann BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P143 (11 July 2008)

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The Type II phase resetting curve is optimal for noise-induced synchrony: a mathematical proof

Aushra Abouzeid, Bard Ermentrout BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P144 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling the interplay between interneuron and pyramidal cell during seizures

Ghanim Ullah, John R Cressman, Steven J Schiff BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P145 (11 July 2008)

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Predicting synchrony and asynchrony in basket cell networks coupled by multiple dendritic gap junctions

Tariq Zahid, Frances K Skinner BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P146 (11 July 2008)

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Interaction of membrane dynamics with network structure and its effects on spatio-temporal network patterning

Andrew Bogaard, Michal Zochowski, Victoria Booth BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P147 (11 July 2008)

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A new measure for the detection of directional couplings based on rank statistics

Daniel Chicharro, Anders Ledberg, Ralph G Andrzejak BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P148 (11 July 2008)

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Loss of synchrony in an inhibitory network of type-I oscillators

Myongkeun Oh, Victor Matveev BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P149 (11 July 2008)

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Intermittent patterns of synchronous activity in human basal ganglia

Choongseok Park, Robert M Worth, Leonid L Rubchinsky BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P150 (11 July 2008)

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The role of burst duration in inhibitory synchronization

Igor Belykh, Andrey Shilnikov BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P151 (11 July 2008)

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Modeling perceptual multi-stability with Hodgkin-Huxley neurons

David Chik, Roman Borisyuk BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P152 (11 July 2008)

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Multichannel analysis of neural oscillations in a simple model network – towards a better understanding of the spatiotemporal structure of brain oscillations

Eckehard Olbrich, Thomas Wennekers BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P153 (11 July 2008)

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Bicoherence and synchrony characteristics of sleep, wakeful and seizure electroencephalograms

Cauchy Pradhan, Nithyananda Pradhan BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P154 (11 July 2008)

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The cerebellum connectivity in mathematics cognition

Shigang Feng, Yaxin Fan, Qingbao Yu, Qilin Lu, Yi-Yuan Tang BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P155 (11 July 2008)

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The dual route model in Chinese-English bilinguals

Qilin Lu, Li Zhou, Yi-Yuan Tang BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P156 (11 July 2008)

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Functional connectivity of brain network during character imagery

Qingbao Yu, Yi-Yuan Tang BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P157 (11 July 2008)

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Investigating the interaction of transcranial magnetic stimulation with a model cortical neuron

David McKay, Allan D Coop, Jack L Lancaster, Peter T Fox BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P158 (11 July 2008)

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