NEURON is a simulation environment for modeling individual neurons and networks of neurons. It provides tools for conveniently building, managing, and using models in a way that is numerically sound and computationally efficient. It is particularly well-suited to problems that are closely linked to experimental data, especially those that involve cells with complex anatomical and biophysical properties.

NEURON offers * "natural syntax", which allows one to specify model properties in familiar idioms * efficient and painless spatial and temporal discretization * several different, user-selectable numerical integration methods * convenient user interface (interpreters + GUI) * user-extendable library of biophysical mechanisms