Python practice in Neuroscience

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• The Driving Force

  Electrophysiologist computing how hard an ion is pushed across the membrane.

  membrane. Free room.

• Hold the Line

  Electrophysiologist predicting where a current clamp will hold the voltage.

  membrane. Free room.

• The Membrane Clock

  New student timing how fast a cell responds to a current step.

  membrane. Free room.

• Stored Charge

  Lab tech checking how much charge a patch of membrane holds.

  membrane. Free room.

• Count the Spikes

  Simulation engineer running a LIF neuron under a current step.

  integrate-fire, simulation. Account access required.

• Rate from the Interval

  Analyst turning an inter-spike interval into an instantaneous firing rate.

  coding. Account access required.

• Rate Readout

  Recording technician converting a spike count into a firing rate.

  integrate-fire. Account access required.

• Refractory Ceiling

  Modeler estimating the fastest a neuron could possibly fire.

  integrate-fire. Account access required.

• The Balance Point

  Synaptic physiologist finding where excitation and inhibition balance.

  synapse. Account access required.

• Channel Activation

  Biophysicist evaluating a channel's steady-state activation curve.

  channels. Account access required.

• Leak Audit

  Modeler checking the leak current at a range of voltages.

  hodgkin-huxley. Account access required.

• Sodium Gate

  Channel biophysicist computing the open sodium conductance.

  hodgkin-huxley. Account access required.

• The Hebb Update

  Plasticity modeler applying the simplest correlation-based learning rule.

  plasticity. Account access required.

• Stability Gate

  Network analyst deciding whether a recurrent loop will blow up.

  networks. Account access required.

• The Timing Window

  Plasticity researcher computing the STDP weight change.

  plasticity. Account access required.

• The Tuned Cell

  Systems neuroscientist evaluating a neuron's tuning curve.

  neural-coding. Account access required.

• The Euler Step

  Simulation engineer advancing a membrane voltage one integration step.

  integration. Account access required.

• Find the Rest State

  Dynamicist locating a FitzHugh-Nagumo fixed point by bisection.

  dynamics. Account access required.

• The Membrane Equation

  Computational neuroscientist evaluating the Hodgkin-Huxley membrane equation.

  hodgkin-huxley. Account access required.

• Read the Population

  Decoding specialist reading a stimulus out of a population bump.

  decoding. Account access required.