http://neurodudes.com/2007/01/29/do-sodium-channels-behave-independently/ at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:01:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://neurodudes.com/2007/01/29/do-sodium-channels-behave-independently/comment-page-1/#comment-38547 bohemianscientist blog Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:48:07 +0000 http://neurodudes.com/?p=359#comment-38547 [...] another example, of equal import and hilarity, has taken place over the last few weeks. about six months ago, nature published a report from some german theorists claiming that the hodgkin-huxley model of membrane potential (an essential model in quantitative neuroscience) was wrong! their argument had to do with some features of experimental recordings that didn’t square with model predictions. one of the two main differences they saw was a “kink” in the beginning of the action potential deflection. see the difference at the arrowheads? at any rate, it generated quite a buzz (here’s a neurodudes post on it, which i really appreciate, despite what i’ll say below). [...] [...] another example, of equal import and hilarity, has taken place over the last few weeks. about six months ago, nature published a report from some german theorists claiming that the hodgkin-huxley model of membrane potential (an essential model in quantitative neuroscience) was wrong! their argument had to do with some features of experimental recordings that didn’t square with model predictions. one of the two main differences they saw was a “kink” in the beginning of the action potential deflection. see the difference at the arrowheads? at any rate, it generated quite a buzz (here’s a neurodudes post on it, which i really appreciate, despite what i’ll say below). [...]

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