Analysis of axonal and dendritic signal propagation - finite difference and finite element techniques
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The prevalent model to describe propagation of neural membrane voltage responses to ion currents is the cable equation. The cable equation is a parabolic-type partial differential equation, which is frequently studied with the use of compartmental models. This paper explores other solution techniques for this type of partial differential equation, specifically the finite difference and finite element methods, and compares these methods to the traditional compartmental model solutions.
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