{
  "id": "1106.5862",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2011-06-29T07:47:03.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-06-29T07:47:03.000Z",
  "title": "Comment on \"Energy and information in Hodgkin-Huxley neurons\"",
  "authors": [
    "Hideo Hasegawa"
  ],
  "comment": "7 pages, 2 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "q-bio.NC"
  ],
  "abstract": "In a recent paper [A. Moujahid, A. d'Anjou, F. J. Torrealdea and F. Torrealdea, Phys. Rev. E {\\bf 83}, 031912 (2011)], the authors have calculated the energy consumed in firing neurons by using the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) model. The energy consumption rate adopted for the HH model yields a {\\it negative} energy consumption meaning an energy transfer from an HH neuron to a source which is physically strange, although they have interpreted it as a biochemical energy cost. I propose an alternative expression for the power consumption which leads to a {\\it positive} energy consumed in an HH neuron, presenting some model calculations which are compared to those in their paper.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2011-06-29T07:47:03.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "hodgkin-huxley neurons",
      "information",
      "hh neuron",
      "hh model yields",
      "model calculations"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2011arXiv1106.5862H"
    }
  }
}