07.06.06
Posted in Computational Neuroscience at 10:24 am by Gabriel Gonzalez
This September I will attend to a interesting summer school organized by the Nicolas Cabrera Institute (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid). I know I will enjoy it for sure since I love this field but I think it is not going to be easy, a lot of advanced mathematics are going to be used to explain these engines of life.
I paste the program below with the links to the abstracts:
Biophysics of genetic networks
Bela Novak. ‘Mathematical modeling of molecular regulatory networks’
Mark Goulian. ‘Two-component signaling in bacteria’
Pablo Iglesias. ‘Feedback control in biological signaling pathways’
Biophysics of neuronal circuits
Björn Brembs. ‘Brains as output/input devices’
Fabrizio Gabbiani. ‘An introduction to neural information processing and coding’
Dmitri Chklovskii. ‘Statistical theory of brain design’
Biophysics of single molecules and cell organization
Patricia Bassereau. ‘Molecular motors and intracellular traffic’
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05.20.06
Posted in Computational Neuroscience at 8:30 pm by Gabriel Gonzalez
After some suggestion from Gonzalo G. de Polavieja, the director of the NeuroLab, I have updated my CPG to be more biologically plausible.
I have kept the Izhikevich’s model but now the two neurons exhibits fast rebound spiking. The Action Potentials plots looks absolutely better.
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05.16.06
Posted in Computational Neuroscience at 1:03 am by Gabriel Gonzalez
Finally I have managed to finished two half-center oscillators. I have used the model developed by Izhikevich which needs few floating point operations but still shows the desired biological properties.
Please refer to the Central Pattern Generatos section to a more detailed explanation I have included the Matlab files used to generate the graphics. It will be growing up in the next days.
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04.16.06
Posted in Computational Neuroscience at 5:38 pm by Gabriel Gonzalez
This is the first post in the category of Computational Neuroscience and shouldn’t be the last. When I have read this papers I will post a summary of them, highlighting the main ideas.
These two papers are needed for the most astonishing project I have ever worked, hold on for a half a year and you will see 
Central Pattern Generators
CPG for swimming
The papers below have been found trying to find projects which use any models of CPGs or whatever information that could help to understand the behavior and interconnection of these amazing bunch of neurons.
CPG to control a pyloric-based system
Rethinking CPGs
CPG for artificial locomotion
Distributed CPG for a serpentine Robot
If you are reading this and have any useful comment, please POST it below! Thank you
More related stuff
Raptor Central pattern generators
Swimming simulation from Neurobiology
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