{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# NESTML active dendrite tutorial\n", "\n", "In this tutorial, we create a neuron model with a \"nonlinear\" or \"active\" dendritic compartment, that can, independently from the soma, generate a dendritic action potential. Instead of modeling the membrane potential of the dendritic compartment explicitly, the dendritic action potential (dAP) is modeled here as the injection of a rectangular (pulse shaped) dendritic current into the soma, parameterized by an amplitude and a duration. The rectangular shape can be interpreted as the approximation of an NMDA spike (Antic et al. 2010). A dendritic action potential is triggered when the total synaptic current exceeds a threshold.\n", "\n", "The model is an adapted version of the neuron model introduced by Memmesheimer et al. (2012) and Jahnke et al. (2012), and has been used in (Bouhadjar et al., 2022).\n", "\n", "**Table of contents**\n", "