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Chemical Synapses

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An Introduction to Modeling Neuronal Dynamics

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We now think about neuronal communication via (chemical) synapses; see Section 1.1 for a brief general explanation of what this means. In this chapter, we describe how to model chemical synapses in the context of differential equations models of neuronal networks.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA

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Börgers, C. (2017). Chemical Synapses. In: An Introduction to Modeling Neuronal Dynamics. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 66. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51171-9_20

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