Author: Justas

Below are some common problems/puzzling behavior I have encountered when working with NEURON.  Understand the difference between Sections, Segments, and 3D Points You will mostly be working with Sections which are subdivided into iso-potential compartments called Segments. NEURON takes care of the details of managing the compartments, but you can set the number of compartments … Continue reading Important NEURON Gotchas and Tips

Tested working as of: 6/30/2019 NEURON simulator is a popular computational neuroscience tool for creating biophysically realistic models of neurons and neural networks. Many model building tasks can be accomplished using Python. However, the default NEURON installation will not allow scripting NEURON from an external Python file. The goal of this tutorial is to show … Continue reading Tutorial: Installing NEURON 7.6 simulator with Python and MPI on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS