The mod-files contained in this directory implement the Khaliq-Raman model, described in the papers: 1. Khaliq ZM, Gouwens NW, Raman IM (2003) The contribution of resurgent sodium current to high-frequency firing in Purkinje neurons: an experimental and modeling study. J Neurosci 23:4899-912. 2. Raman IM, Bean BP (2001) Inactivation and recovery of sodium currents in cerebellar Purkinje neurons: evidence for two mechanisms. Biophys J 80:729-37. The following mod-files are the original ones (see entry 48332 on ModelDB) and they implement the deterministic equations of the model. bkpkj.mod ihpkj.mod kpkj.mod kpkj2.mod kpkjslow.mod pkjlk.mod rsg.mod cadiff.mod cap.mod The following mod-files are the modified versions of the correspondingly named ones and implement channel noise according to the algorithm described in Linaro, D., Storace, M., & Giugliano, M. (2011). Accurate and fast simulation of channel noise in conductance-based model neurons by diffusion approximation. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(3), e1001102. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001102 available on ModelDB via accession number 127992. bkpkj_cn.mod ihpkj_cn.mod kpkj_cn.mod kpkj2_cn.mod kpkjslow_cn.mod rsg_cn.mod One of the mod-files (rsg_cn.mod) implementing channel noise in the Khaliq-Raman model requires the usage of the GNU scientific library. This also requires recompiling NEURON so that nrnivmodl links the GSL when compiling the mod-files. In order to achieve this, first install the GSL on your system, either manually or using one of the many package managers available for this purpose. Then, go to the directory where you have installed NEURON: here, I will assume that you have followed the instructions for compiling NEURON from source on a Linux machine, which are available at the address http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/download/compile_linux. $ cd $HOME/neuron/nrn Set the environment variable $LDFLAGS to point to the additional libraries you want nrnivmodl to link, namely libgsl and libgslcblas. To do so, enter at a prompt $ export LDFLAGS='-lgsl -lgslcblas' This assumes that the library files are in a directory where the linker can find them. If that's not the case, you should add the path of that directory (here we will assume it is /usr/local/lib) to $LDFLAGS: $ export LDFLAGS='-L'$HOME'/local/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas' Additionally, it is necessary to set the variable $CFLAGS to point to the directory where the header files for the libraries are stored (in this example, /usr/local/include). This step is necessary only if they are in a folder not in the compiler path. $ export CFLAGS='-I'$HOME'/local/include' You can now reconfigure and recompile NEURON by issuing the commands $ make clean $ ./configure --prefix=`pwd` $ make $ make install This will cause nrnivmodl to _always_ link the gsl libraries whenever it compiles a MOD-file.