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Coupled Solitary Waves in Neurophysics

“…and the velocity, U , corresponded closely t o those observed on an experimental fiber. Later numerical studies by Huxley [ 6 ] revealed a second traveling wave solution of slower velocity and lower amplitude indicated as curve (b) in Fig. 2.…”

“…A myelinated nerve fiber can be described by the differencedifferential equations v,+, -2v, + vm-l -RCv,,t = RI, ( 6 4 that correspond to the nonlinear diffusion equation (1) in the limit of small differences. In (6), Cis the total capacitance of an active node plus the internode capacitance, R is the total fiber resistance from one node to the next, and I, is the ion current through the mth active node. Assuming…”