Undergraduate computer lab designed to teach quantitative thinking in the context of neurobiology. Ideally, this lab would be taught as a supplement to a concurrent lecture course. Students are assumed to have completed one year of undergraduate calculus.
Topics include Nernst equation, GHK equation, passive electrical spread, voltage clamp, action potentials, synaptic currents, reciprocal inhibition, lateral inhibition, and the swimming circuit of Tritonia. Math skills used include graphing, logarithms, differential equations, and discrete-time models.
The modules are designed to be self-contained lab exercises. They are Mathcad documents that the students complete for credit. Thus, students must have access to Mathcad (version 13 or higher). PDF versions of the modules are also provided for demonstration purposes.
