MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF EXCITATION AND PROPAGATION IN NERVES

Abstract

Interest In the cUnical syplUattcn of IS I .ti 1 + of rv.s,, 'both pari**sraUy centrally s gin rapidly, %%M of patiatta orr now being treated for comic pain using both ertLeisl and ii31antsd etactree Glenn hays develOped an lectrophr.niotor ihLch has been ilwMd In near*y 100 pattsn w4th b*deqi*ta or no reap tory Mtc► , Waters have reported on a series of smoke viatia. in s aralyzed $150111 of the leg irs activated electrically during a tion Wales. E~ mantel workis under way to flopopnsurost.ctrja pXOse ase► for the deaf and blind, As these clinical efforts ieiltiply, It bieoees i,iirattvs that a model of nerve sue c*t be available provide an analyticalfOWId*tLOI* a* # study of signal propagation and nerve xcitaticn, over the am" of the last tea dentrij" neny Dhyaicei syst have bean linicad to names and Mw uistheeetic.1 models propoeed as representingnot" hsr.ot.ri.tics.