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In this paper we study the dependency of the stationary solutions of the neural fields equations with respect to the stiffness of the nonlinearity and the contrast of the external inputs. This is done by using degree theory and bifurcation theory in the context of functional, in particular, infinite dimensional, spaces. The joint use of these two theories allows us to make new detailed predictions about the global and local behaviors of the solutions. We also provide a generic finite dimensional approximation of these equations which allows us to study in great detail two models. The first model is a neural mass model of a cortical hypercolumn of orientation sensitive neurons, the ring model [O. Shriki, D. Hansel, and H. Sompolinsky, Neural Comput., 15 (2003), pp. 1809\u20131841]. 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