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Morphologically detailed motoneuron models refer to a class of motoneuron (MN) models that are developed using experimentally-derived three-dimensional digital reconstructions of MN anatomy (Fig. 1, left panel). In contrast to models with reduced morphological detail (Fig. 1, right panel), morphologically detailed models offer more accurate spatial resolution and allow realistic distribution of electrical properties.
A morphologically detailed model (left) versus its reduced counterpart for the same MN (cell 43c5 originally published in Cullheim et al. 1987)
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Elbasiouny, S.M. (2014). Morphologically Detailed Motoneuron Models. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_371-1
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