Simulating a Neuron Soma

Abstract

In the previous chapter, we modeled the simple passive compartment shown in Fig. 12.1. The membrane resistance R _m is in series with a leakage battery E _rest , and is in parallel with a membrane capacitance C _m and a current source I _inject . Assembled into a script, the commands used would look something like the listing shown in Fig. 13.1. Note the use of “//” for comments. Multi-line comments may be entered by bracketing the commented lines with “/*” and “*/”, as in C. This script also illustrates the use of the backslash character, “\”, in order to continue a statement (the second addmsg command) to another line. This will be useful when entering lengthy setfield commands.