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Motor nerve conduction velocity studies revealed that conductance in diabetic rats was about 30% lower than that of the non-diabetic control group. In addition, activity along the Schmidt-Lanterman incisures was non-continuous and non-linear in the diabetic group, but linear and continuous in the control.
Additionally, the motor unit action potential is an all-or-none phenomenon - once the recruitment threshold (the stimulus intensity at which a motor unit begins to fire) is reached, it fires fully. Electrical stimulation of nerves reverses the recruitment order, due to the lower resistance of the larger motor neuron axons.
Figure. 1: Cable theory's simplified view of a neuronal fiber. In neuroscience, classical cable theory uses mathematical models to calculate the electric current (and accompanying voltage) along passive [a] neurites, particularly the dendrites that receive synaptic inputs at different sites and times.
As with most neuronal models, increasing the injected current will increase the firing rate of the neuron. One consequence of the Hopf bifurcation is that there is a minimum firing rate. This means that either the neuron is not firing at all (corresponding to zero frequency), or firing at the minimum firing rate.
A neuron is represented by an RC circuit with a threshold. Each input pulse (e.g. caused by a spike from a different neuron) causes a short current pulse. Voltage decays exponentially. If the threshold is reached an output spike is generated and the voltage is reset. where V m is the voltage across the cell membrane and R m is the membrane ...
Mathematically, a neuron's network function () is defined as a composition of other functions (), that can further be decomposed into other functions. This can be conveniently represented as a network structure, with arrows depicting the dependencies between functions.
At the time of Henneman’s initial study of motor neuron recruitment, [1] it was known that neurons varied greatly in size, that is in the diameter and extent of the dendritic arbor, size of the soma, and diameter of axon. However, the functional significance of neuron size was not yet known.
A motor neuron (or motoneuron or efferent neuron [1]) is a neuron whose cell body is located in the motor cortex, brainstem or the spinal cord, and whose axon (fiber) projects to the spinal cord or outside of the spinal cord to directly or indirectly control effector organs, mainly muscles and glands. [2]