Hence, researchers often simulate the brain as a network of coupled neural masses, each described by a mean-field model. These models capture the essential features of neuronal populations while ...

The Hodgkin-Huxley (H-H) theory of the action potential, formulated 50 years ago, remains one of the great success stories in biology, and ranks among the most significant conceptual breakthroughs ...

Hodgkin's and Huxley's picture of how ion channels behave ... as a theorist because of the quantitative flavor of many of his papers, he was in reality a consummate experimentalist.