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Brain stem motoneuron models are mathematical representations of the input–output properties of motoneurons located in the different motor nuclei of the brain stem.
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Several classes of mathematical models have been developed to describe the input–output properties of the resident motoneurons of the different motor nuclei of the brain stem (i.e., abducens, facial, hypoglossal, oculomotor, trigeminal, and trochlear). These models range in complexity from simple “black box” analytical models (Poliakov et al. 1997; Powers et al. 2005) to complete Hodgkin-Huxley-type ionic conductance-based models with reconstructed dendritic trees (Kulagina 2011). The choice of model type has been largely dictated by the question at hand, i.e., responses to synaptic inputs, intrinsic properties, aggregate or pool behavior, and contribution to neural circuits. In all variants, these models have proved extremely useful in the quantitative analysis of electrophysiological...
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Binder, M.D. (2014). Brainstem Motoneurons, Models of. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_742-1
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