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Neural Excitability

Neural Excitability is a fundamental biophysical property of neurons that denotes their capacity to generate and modulate action potentials in response to intrinsic or extrinsic inputs, as determined by the ion channel composition and dynamics of their membrane potential.

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A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve

A. L. Hodgkin, A. F. Huxley · The Journal of Physiology · 1952 · 23.2K citations · Full text

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Long‐lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in the dentate area of the anaesthetized rabbit following stimulation of the perforant path

T.V.P. Bliss, Terje Lømo · The Journal of Physiology · 1973 · 7.3K citations · Full text

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Impulses and Physiological States in Theoretical Models of Nerve Membrane

Richard Fitzhugh · Biophysical Journal · 1961 · 6.3K citations

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Excitability changes induced in the human motor cortex by weak transcranial direct current stimulation

Michael A. Nitsche, Walter Paulus · The Journal of Physiology · 2000 · 5.7K citations · Full text

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An Active Pulse Transmission Line Simulating Nerve Axon

J. Nagumo, S. Arimoto, S. Yoshizawa · Proceedings of the IRE · 1962 · 4.2K citations

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    Stephen G. Waxman

    Yale University, United States

    93 publications · 10.9K citations

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    Mircea Steriade

    Université Laval, Canada

    48 publications · 8.6K citations

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    David A. Prince

    Stanford University, United States

    49 publications · 9K citations

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    K. Krnjević

    McGill University, Canada

    60 publications · 6.2K citations

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    Hugh Bostock

    University College London, United Kingdom

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  1. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

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  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

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    Seattle, United States

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    Evanston, United States

    87 h-index

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  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    84 h-index

    475 publications

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  6. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    82 h-index

    525 publications

    58.6K citations

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    Cambridge, United States

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