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[Neuroscience] Re: Constant Current Vs. Constant Voltage stimulators.

Bill via neur-sci%40net.bio.net (by connelly.bill from gmail.com)
Sat Feb 24 21:59:32 EST 2007


Yeah, I was talking about extracellular electrical stimulators.

On Feb 24, 12:10 am, usene... from out-of-phase.de (Christian Wilms) wrote:
> ian.vitro <ian.vi... from gmail.com> wrote:
> > Also depends on what you want to measure - under constant current, you
> > measure changes in membrane voltage in response to stimuli; under
> > voltage clamp you can examine currents.
>
> OK, maybe I was assuming the wrong thing here: I thought we were talking
> about extracellular stimulation.
>
> The differences between voltage-clamping and voltage-recording require a
> much more thorough discussion of course.
>
> All the best,
>
> Christian




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