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The Hodgkin–Huxley model, widely regarded as one of the great achievements of 20th-century biophysics, describes how [[action potential]]s in neurons are initiated and propagated in axons via [[voltage-gated ion channel]]s. It is a set of [[nonlinearity|nonlinear]] [[ordinary differential equation]]s that were introduced by [[Alan Lloyd Hodgkin]] and [[Andrew Huxley]] in 1952 to explain the results of [[voltage clamp]] experiments on the [[squid giant axon]]. Analytic solutions do not exist, but the [[Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm]], a modified [[Gauss–Newton algorithm]], is often used to [[curve fitting|fit]] these equations to voltage-clamp data.

The [[FitzHugh–Nagumo model]] is a simplicationsimplification of the Hodgkin–Huxley model. The [[Hindmarsh–Rose model]] is an extension which describes neuronal spike bursts. The Morris–Lecar model is a modification which does not generate spikes, but describes slow-wave propagation, which is implicated in the inhibitory synaptic mechanisms of [[central pattern generator]]s.

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