This is the readme for the model associated with paper

Crook SM, Dur-E-Ahmad M, Baer SM (2007) A model of activity-dependent
changes in dendritic spine density and spine structure. Math Biosci
Eng 4:617-31

These matlab files were supplied by Dr Sharon Crook.

Usage:

After extracting the archive start matlab and cd to the mbe folder
created by expanding the archive Run with the command

run run_sp

After finishing (7 minutes on a 3 GHz 2007 Pentium 4) the program
reproduces figure 8 from the paper, for example the spine head voltage:



and the Ca concentration:



A figure8 data file is also created that stores these traces.