Professor Laurence F Abbott

Sloan-Swartz Centre for Theoretical Neurobiology, Brandeis University
Email: abbott@brandeis.edu
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My research involves the mathematical modelling and analysis of neurons and neural networks. Analytic techniques and computer simulation are used to study how different conductances contribute to the electrical characteristics of a neuron, how neurons interact to produce functioning neural circuits, and how large populations of neurons represent, store, and process information. Areas of particular interest are mechanisms that control the development and maintenance of neural circuits, dynamic properties of large neural networks, and methods used by populations of spiking neurons to represent and process information.-