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Kernel: Python 3 (system-wide)

NEURON simulation environment

The NEURON simulation environment is used in laboratories and classrooms around the world for building and using computational models of neurons and networks of neurons.

https://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/

Kernel: Python 3 (system-wide)

CoCalc Setup

important unset DISPLAY, otherwise gui is loading and neron crashes

import os if 'DISPLAY' in os.environ: del os.environ['DISPLAY']

Add the library location to the search path

import sys sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/local/nrn/lib/python/')
from neuron import h, __version__ __version__
'7.7.2'
soma = h.Section(name='soma')
h.psection()
soma { nseg=1 L=100 Ra=35.4 /*location 0 attached to cell 0*/ /* First segment only */ insert morphology { diam=500} insert capacitance { cm=1} }
1.0
soma.insert('pas')
soma
print("type(soma) = {}".format(type(soma))) print("type(soma(0.5)) ={}".format(type(soma(0.5))))
type(soma) = <class 'nrn.Section'> type(soma(0.5)) =<class 'nrn.Segment'>
mech = soma(0.5).pas print(dir(mech))
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__next__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'e', 'g', 'i', 'is_ion', 'name', 'segment']
print(mech.g)
0.001
print(soma(0.5).pas.g)
0.001
asyn = h.AlphaSynapse(soma(0.5))
print("asyn.e = {}".format(asyn.e)) print("asyn.gmax = {}".format(asyn.gmax)) print("asyn.onset = {}".format(asyn.onset)) print("asyn.tau = {}".format(asyn.tau))
asyn.e = 0.0 asyn.gmax = 0.0 asyn.onset = 0.0 asyn.tau = 0.1
asyn.onset = 20 asyn.gmax = 1
h.psection()
soma { nseg=1 L=100 Ra=35.4 /*location 0 attached to cell 0*/ /* First segment only */ insert morphology { diam=500} insert capacitance { cm=1} insert pas { g_pas=0.001 e_pas=-70} insert AlphaSynapse { onset=20 tau=0.1 gmax=1 e=0} }
1.0
v_vec = h.Vector() # Membrane potential vector t_vec = h.Vector() # Time stamp vector v_vec.record(soma(0.5)._ref_v) t_vec.record(h._ref_t)
Vector[1]
h.load_file('stdrun.hoc') h.tstop = 40.0 h.run()
0.0
from matplotlib import pyplot pyplot.figure(figsize=(8, 4)) # Default figsize is (8,6) pyplot.plot(t_vec, v_vec) pyplot.xlabel('time (ms)') pyplot.ylabel('mV') pyplot.show()
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