Python Simulation of Hyperpolarization-activated graded persistent activity in the prefrontal cortex Reference: Winograd M, Destexhe A, Sanchez-Vives, MV. Hyperpolarization-activated graded persistent activity in the prefrontal cortex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105: 7298-7303, 2008 Python Translation of: http://senselab.med.yale.edu/ModelDB/ShowModel.asp?model=113997 From Destexhe's Readme, A description of the intrinsic current: Intrinsic currents: INa, IKd for action potentials, IM for spike-frequency adaptation, ICaL for calcium currents, calcium dynamics and the hyperpolarization-activated current Ih. There is also a calcium regulation of Ih, which was taken from thalamic neurons (Destexhe et al., J Neurophysiol., 1996) demo_HPGA_non_saturating.py: "non-saturating" model (Fig 4 of the paper) demo_HPGA_non_saturating_noIh.py: "non-saturating" model, no Ih (Fig 4 of the paper) demo_HPGA_saturating.py: "saturating" model (supplementary Fig S7 of the paper) Usage: After going to the Directory anr running nrnivmodl Autorun by opening the file called simgui.py. This will give you a dialog box to be able to choose which figure you would like to see. Choose a figure. If you would like to see a different figure, reopen simgui.py Directions: Under Linux: Download the archive. In the directory type nrnivmodl to compile the mod files Then type nrngui -python In python import simgui by typing from simgui import *