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Taylor JD, Chauhan AS, Taylor JT, Shilnikov AL, Nogaret A. Noise-activated barrier crossing in multiattractor dissipative neural networks. Phys Rev E 2022; 105:064203. [PMID: 35854623 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.105.064203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Noise-activated transitions between coexisting attractors are investigated in a chaotic spiking network. At low noise level, attractor hopping consists of discrete bifurcation events that conserve the memory of initial conditions. When the escape probability becomes comparable to the intrabasin hopping probability, the lifetime of attractors is given by a detailed balance where the less coherent attractors act as a sink for the more coherent ones. In this regime, the escape probability follows an activation law allowing us to assign pseudoactivation energies to limit cycle attractors. These pseudoenergies introduce a useful metric for evaluating the resilience of biological rhythms to perturbations.
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- Joseph D Taylor
- Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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- Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Petit Science Center, 100 Piedmont Avenue Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Petit Science Center, 100 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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Bursting in cerebellar stellate cells induced by pharmacological agents: Non-sequential spike adding. PLoS Comput Biol 2020; 16:e1008463. [PMID: 33315892 PMCID: PMC7769625 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2020] [Revised: 12/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Cerebellar stellate cells (CSCs) are spontaneously active, tonically firing (5-30 Hz), inhibitory interneurons that synapse onto Purkinje cells. We previously analyzed the excitability properties of CSCs, focusing on four key features: type I excitability, non-monotonic first-spike latency, switching in responsiveness and runup (i.e., temporal increase in excitability during whole-cell configuration). In this study, we extend this analysis by using whole-cell configuration to show that these neurons can also burst when treated with certain pharmacological agents separately or jointly. Indeed, treatment with 4-Aminopyridine (4-AP), a partial blocker of delayed rectifier and A-type K+ channels, at low doses induces a bursting profile in CSCs significantly different than that produced at high doses or when it is applied at low doses but with cadmium (Cd2+), a blocker of high voltage-activated (HVA) Ca2+ channels. By expanding a previously revised Hodgkin–Huxley type model, through the inclusion of Ca2+-activated K+ (K(Ca)) and HVA currents, we explain how these bursts are generated and what their underlying dynamics are. Specifically, we demonstrate that the expanded model preserves the four excitability features of CSCs, as well as captures their bursting patterns induced by 4-AP and Cd2+. Model investigation reveals that 4-AP is potentiating HVA, inducing square-wave bursting at low doses and pseudo-plateau bursting at high doses, whereas Cd2+ is potentiating K(Ca), inducing pseudo-plateau bursting when applied in combination with low doses of 4-AP. Using bifurcation analysis, we show that spike adding in square-wave bursts is non-sequential when gradually changing HVA and K(Ca) maximum conductances, delayed Hopf is responsible for generating the plateau segment within the active phase of pseudo-plateau bursts, and bursting can become “chaotic” when HVA and K(Ca) maximum conductances are made low and high, respectively. These results highlight the secondary effects of the drugs applied and suggest that CSCs have all the ingredients needed for bursting. Excitable cells, including neurons, fire action potentials (APs) in their membrane voltage that allow them to communicate with each other and to serve certain physiological purposes. They do so either tonically by firing APs periodically, or episodically by repeatedly firing clusters of APs (called bursts) separated by quiescent periods. Each one of those firing patterns can be neuron-specific and dependent on synaptic inputs and/or their physiological environment. Cerebellar stellate cells (CSCs) that synapse onto Purkinje cells, the sole output of the cerebellum responsible for motor control, are spontaneously active inhibitory interneurons that fire APs tonically. We previously studied the excitability properties of these neurons and showed that they possess several important key features, including type I excitability, runup, non-monotonic first spike latency and switching in responsiveness. In this study, we show that CSCs can also exhibit two modes of burst firing, called square-wave and pseudo-plateau, when treated with certain pharmacological agents. Using bifurcation theory, we demonstrate that spike adding in the square-wave burst is non-sequential, changing by several spikes when certain conductances are altered gradually. This study thus sheds lights onto the overall effects of the pharmacological agents and highlights the ability of CSCs to burst in certain biological conditions.
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Bashkirtseva I, Ryashko L, Slepukhina E. Noise-induced spiking-bursting transition in the neuron model with the blue sky catastrophe. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:062408. [PMID: 31330693 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.062408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We study a special variant of the noise-induced transition between spiking and bursting regimes associated with the blue sky catastrophe bifurcation in the Hindmarsh-Rose neuron model. We show that in the parameter region close to the bifurcation value, where the only attractor of the system is the limit cycle of tonic spiking type, noise can transform the spiking oscillatory regime to the bursting one. This phenomenon is studied by means of power spectral density and interspike intervals statistics. We show that noise shifts the bifurcation value, so that bursting activity can be observed for a wider parameter range. Moreover, we reveal that the stochastic spiking-bursting transitions in this system are accompanied by the change in sign of the Lyapunov exponent. We perform a detailed quantitative analysis of these phenomena with an approach that uses a concept of the stochastic sensitivity function, the confidence domains method, and Mahalanobis metrics.
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- Irina Bashkirtseva
- Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Lenina 51, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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- Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Lenina 51, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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- Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Lenina 51, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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Ju H, Neiman AB, Shilnikov AL. Bottom-up approach to torus bifurcation in neuron models. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2018; 28:106317. [PMID: 30384623 DOI: 10.1063/1.5042078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Accepted: 09/24/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We study the quasi-periodicity phenomena occurring at the transition between tonic spiking and bursting activities in exemplary biologically plausible Hodgkin-Huxley type models of individual cells and reduced phenomenological models with slow and fast dynamics. Using the geometric slow-fast dissection and the parameter continuation approach, we show that the transition is due to either the torus bifurcation or the period-doubling bifurcation of a stable periodic orbit on the 2D slow-motion manifold near a characteristic fold. Various torus bifurcations including stable and saddle torus-canards, resonant tori, the co-existence of nested tori, and the torus breakdown leading to the onset of complex and bistable dynamics in such systems are examined too.
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- Huiwen Ju
- Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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Ryashko L, Slepukhina E. Noise-induced torus bursting in the stochastic Hindmarsh-Rose neuron model. Phys Rev E 2017; 96:032212. [PMID: 29346914 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96.032212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We study the phenomenon of noise-induced torus bursting on the base of the three-dimensional Hindmarsh-Rose neuron model forced by additive noise. We show that in the parametric zone close to the Neimark-Sacker bifurcation, where the deterministic system exhibits rapid tonic spiking oscillations, random disturbances can turn tonic spiking into bursting, which is characterized by the formation of a peculiar dynamical structure resembling that of a torus. This phenomenon is confirmed by the changes in dispersion of random trajectories as well as the power spectral density and interspike intervals statistics. In particular, we show that as noise increases, the system undergoes P and D bifurcations, transitioning from order to chaos. We ultimately characterize the transition from stochastic (tonic) spiking to bursting by stochastic sensitivity functions.
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- Lev Ryashko
- Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Lenina 51, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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- Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Lenina 51, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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Bertram R, Rubin JE. Multi-timescale systems and fast-slow analysis. Math Biosci 2016; 287:105-121. [PMID: 27424950 DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2016.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2016] [Revised: 07/01/2016] [Accepted: 07/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Mathematical models of biological systems often have components that vary on different timescales. This multi-timescale character can lead to problems when doing computer simulations, which can require a great deal of computer time so that the components that change on the fastest time scale can be resolved. Mathematical analysis of these multi-timescale systems can be greatly simplified by partitioning them into subsystems that evolve on different time scales. The subsystems are then analyzed semi-independently, using a technique called fast-slow analysis. In this review we describe the fast-slow analysis technique and apply it to relaxation oscillations, neuronal bursting oscillations, canard oscillations, and mixed-mode oscillations. Although these examples all involve neural systems, the technique can and has been applied to other biological, chemical, and physical systems. It is a powerful analysis method that will become even more useful in the future as new experimental techniques push forward the complexity of biological models.
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- Richard Bertram
- Department of Mathematics and Programs in Neuroscience and Molecular Biophysics Florida State University, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Han X, Chen Z, Bi Q. Inverse period-doubling bifurcations determine complex structure of bursting in a one-dimensional non-autonomous map. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2016; 26:023117. [PMID: 26931598 DOI: 10.1063/1.4942503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We propose a simple one-dimensional non-autonomous map, in which some novel bursting patterns (e.g., "fold/double inverse flip" bursting, "fold/multiple inverse flip" bursting, and "fold/a cascade of inverse flip" bursting) can be observed. Typically, these bursting patterns exhibit complex structures containing a chain of inverse period-doubling bifurcations. The active states related to these bursting can be period-2(n) (n = 1, 2, 3,…) attractors or chaotic attractors, which may evolve to quiescence by a chain of inverse period-doubling bifurcations when the slow excitation decreases through period-doubling bifurcation points of the map. This accounts for the complex inverse period-doubling bifurcation structures observed in bursting patterns. Our findings enrich the possible routes to bursting as well as the underlying mechanisms of bursting.
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- Xiujing Han
- Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, People's Republic of China
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- Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, People's Republic of China
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- Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, People's Republic of China
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Mishra N, Hasse M, Biswal B, Singh HP. Reliability of unstable periodic orbit based control strategies in biological systems. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2015; 25:043104. [PMID: 25933652 DOI: 10.1063/1.4916899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Presence of recurrent and statistically significant unstable periodic orbits (UPOs) in time series obtained from biological systems is now routinely used as evidence for low dimensional chaos. Extracting accurate dynamical information from the detected UPO trajectories is vital for successful control strategies that either aim to stabilize the system near the fixed point or steer the system away from the periodic orbits. A hybrid UPO detection method from return maps that combines topological recurrence criterion, matrix fit algorithm, and stringent criterion for fixed point location gives accurate and statistically significant UPOs even in the presence of significant noise. Geometry of the return map, frequency of UPOs visiting the same trajectory, length of the data set, strength of the noise, and degree of nonstationarity affect the efficacy of the proposed method. Results suggest that establishing determinism from unambiguous UPO detection is often possible in short data sets with significant noise, but derived dynamical properties are rarely accurate and adequate for controlling the dynamics around these UPOs. A repeat chaos control experiment on epileptic hippocampal slices through more stringent control strategy and adaptive UPO tracking is reinterpreted in this context through simulation of similar control experiments on an analogous but stochastic computer model of epileptic brain slices. Reproduction of equivalent results suggests that far more stringent criteria are needed for linking apparent success of control in such experiments with possible determinism in the underlying dynamics.
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- Nagender Mishra
- Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
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- Institut für Höchstleistungsrechnen, Universität Stuttgart, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Cluster Innovation Center, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
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- Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
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Marin B, Pinto RD, Elson RC, Colli E. Noise, transient dynamics, and the generation of realistic interspike interval variation in square-wave burster neurons. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 90:042718. [PMID: 25375534 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.042718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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First return maps of interspike intervals for biological neurons that generate repetitive bursts of impulses can display stereotyped structures (neuronal signatures). Such structures have been linked to the possibility of multicoding and multifunctionality in neural networks that produce and control rhythmical motor patterns. In some cases, isolating the neurons from their synaptic network reveals irregular, complex signatures that have been regarded as evidence of intrinsic, chaotic behavior. We show that incorporation of dynamical noise into minimal neuron models of square-wave bursting (either conductance-based or abstract) produces signatures akin to those observed in biological examples, without the need for fine tuning of parameters or ad hoc constructions for inducing chaotic activity. The form of the stochastic term is not strongly constrained and can approximate several possible sources of noise, e.g., random channel gating or synaptic bombardment. The cornerstone of this signature generation mechanism is the rich, transient, but deterministic dynamics inherent in the square-wave (saddle-node and homoclinic) mode of neuronal bursting. We show that noise causes the dynamics to populate a complex transient scaffolding or skeleton in state space, even for models that (without added noise) generate only periodic activity (whether in bursting or tonic spiking mode).
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- Bóris Marin
- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, California 92093-0402, USA
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- Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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Schwabedal JTC, Neiman AB, Shilnikov AL. Robust design of polyrhythmic neural circuits. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 90:022715. [PMID: 25215766 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.022715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Neural circuit motifs producing coexistent rhythmic patterns are treated as building blocks of multifunctional neuronal networks. We study the robustness of such a motif of inhibitory model neurons to reliably sustain bursting polyrhythms under random perturbations. Without noise, the exponential stability of each of the coexisting rhythms increases with strengthened synaptic coupling, thus indicating an increased robustness. Conversely, after adding noise we find that noise-induced rhythm switching intensifies if the coupling strength is increased beyond a critical value, indicating a decreased robustness. We analyze this stochastic arrhythmia and develop a generic description of its dynamic mechanism. Based on our mechanistic insight, we show how physiological parameters of neuronal dynamics and network coupling can be balanced to enhance rhythm robustness against noise. Our findings are applicable to a broad class of relaxation-oscillator networks, including Fitzhugh-Nagumo and other Hodgkin-Huxley-type networks.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA and Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhni Novgorod 603950, Russia
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Maturana MI, Kameneva T, Burkitt AN, Meffin H, Grayden DB. The effect of morphology upon electrophysiological responses of retinal ganglion cells: simulation results. J Comput Neurosci 2013; 36:157-75. [PMID: 23835760 PMCID: PMC3950609 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-013-0463-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2012] [Revised: 04/15/2013] [Accepted: 05/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) display differences in their morphology and intrinsic electrophysiology. The goal of this study is to characterize the ionic currents that explain the behavior of ON and OFF RGCs and to explore if all morphological types of RGCs exhibit the phenomena described in electrophysiological data. We extend our previous single compartment cell models of ON and OFF RGCs to more biophysically realistic multicompartment cell models and investigate the effect of cell morphology on intrinsic electrophysiological properties. The membrane dynamics are described using the Hodgkin - Huxley type formalism. A subset of published patch-clamp data from isolated intact mouse retina is used to constrain the model and another subset is used to validate the model. Two hundred morphologically distinct ON and OFF RGCs are simulated with various densities of ionic currents in different morphological neuron compartments. Our model predicts that the differences between ON and OFF cells are explained by the presence of the low voltage activated calcium current in OFF cells and absence of such in ON cells. Our study shows through simulation that particular morphological types of RGCs are capable of exhibiting the full range of phenomena described in recent experiments. Comparisons of outputs from different cells indicate that the RGC morphologies that best describe recent experimental results are ones that have a larger ratio of soma to total surface area.
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- Matias I Maturana
- Centre for Neural Engineering, University of Melbourne, 203 Bouverie St, Carlton, Vic, 3053, Australia
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Samengo I, Mato G, Elijah DH, Schreiber S, Montemurro MA. Linking dynamical and functional properties of intrinsically bursting neurons. J Comput Neurosci 2013; 35:213-30. [PMID: 23575806 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-013-0449-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2012] [Revised: 02/05/2013] [Accepted: 02/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Several studies have shown that bursting neurons can encode information in the number of spikes per burst: As the stimulus varies, so does the length of individual bursts. There presented stimuli, however, vary substantially among different sensory modalities and different neurons.The goal of this paper is to determine which kind of stimulus features can be encoded in burst length, and how those features depend on the mathematical properties of the underlying dynamical system.We show that the initiation and termination of each burst is triggered by specific stimulus features whose temporal characteristsics are determined by the types of bifurcations that initiate and terminate firing in each burst. As only a few bifurcations are possible, only a restricted number of encoded features exists. Here we focus specifically on describing parabolic, square-wave and elliptic bursters. We find that parabolic bursters, whose firing is initiated and terminated by saddle-node bifurcations, behave as prototypical integrators: Firing is triggered by depolarizing stimuli, and lasts for as long as excitation is prolonged. Elliptic bursters, contrastingly, constitute prototypical resonators, since both the initiating and terminating bifurcations possess well-defined oscillation time scales. Firing is therefore triggered by stimulus stretches of matching frequency and terminated by a phase-inversion in the oscillation. The behavior of square-wave bursters is somewhat intermediate, since they are triggered by a fold bifurcation of cycles of well-defined frequency but are terminated by a homoclinic bifurcation lacking an oscillating time scale. These correspondences show that stimulus selectivity is determined by the type of bifurcations. By testing several neuron models, we also demonstrate that additional biological properties that do not modify the bifurcation structure play a minor role in stimulus encoding. Moreover, we show that burst-length variability (and thereby, the capacity to transmit information) depends on a trade-off between the variance of the external signal driving the cell and the strength of the slow internal currents modulating bursts. Thus, our work explicitly links the computational properties of bursting neurons to the mathematical properties of the underlying dynamical systems.
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- Inés Samengo
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina,
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Kohno T, Aihara K. Improving noise resistance of intrinsic rhythms in a square-wave burster model. Biosystems 2013; 112:276-83. [PMID: 23541604 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2013.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2012] [Revised: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 03/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The square-wave burster (Wang and Rinzel, 2003) is a class of autonomous bursting cells that share a bifurcation structure. It is known that this class of cells is involved in the generation of various life-supporting rhythms. In our research to realize an electronic circuit that mimics the rhythm generating mechanism in the square-wave burster, our circuit experimentally exhibited severe fluctuations in its rhythmic activity. We have found a noise-sensitive region in the phase portrait of the ideal model and have proposed modifications of the model that can reduce this fluctuation. A possible modification to ionic-conductance neuron models (Kohno and Aihara, 2011) was inspired by them. This modification, however, cannot be applied to a group of square-wave bursters, including the Butera-Rinzel-Smith model (Butera et al., 1999; Del Negro et al., 2001), which is a model of the pre-Bötzinger complex bursting neuron that plays a crucial role in the generation of respiration rhythms, because this modification premises that the slow dynamics originates from an activation gate variable of a hyperpolarizing ionic current. However, in some square-wave bursters, they are controlled by an inactivation gate variable of a depolarizing ionic current. In this study, we proposed a similar modification with a completely different mechanism that can be applied to this group of square-wave bursters. In the presence of noises, the modified Butera-Rinzel-Smith model can generate rhythmic activity that is more stable and similar to biological observations than the original model. The mechanisms underlying this modification are explained with noisy bifurcation diagrams.
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- Takashi Kohno
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan.
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Ji L, Zhang J, Lang X, Zhang X. Coupling and noise induced spiking-bursting transition in a parabolic bursting model. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2013; 23:013141. [PMID: 23556978 DOI: 10.1063/1.4795281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The transition from tonic spiking to bursting is an important dynamic process that carry physiologically relevant information. In this work, coupling and noise induced spiking-bursting transition is investigated in a parabolic bursting model with specific discussion on their cooperation effects. Fast/slow analysis shows that weak coupling may help to induce the bursting by changing the geometric property of the fast subsystem so that the original unstable periodical solution are stabilized. It turned out that noise can play the similar stabilization role and induce bursting at appropriate moderate intensity. However, their cooperation may either strengthen or weaken the overall effect depending on the choice of noise level.
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- Lin Ji
- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China.
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Manchanda K, Yadav AC, Ramaswamy R. Scaling behavior in probabilistic neuronal cellular automata. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 87:012704. [PMID: 23410356 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.012704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2012] [Revised: 11/16/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We study a neural network model of interacting stochastic discrete two-state cellular automata on a regular lattice. The system is externally tuned to a critical point which varies with the degree of stochasticity (or the effective temperature). There are avalanches of neuronal activity, namely, spatially and temporally contiguous sites of activity; a detailed numerical study of these activity avalanches is presented, and single, joint, and marginal probability distributions are computed. At the critical point, we find that the scaling exponents for the variables are in good agreement with a mean-field theory.
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- Kaustubh Manchanda
- School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
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Lu M, Li D, Wei X, Deng B, Wang J. The intrinsic phase response properties of an interneuron model. Neurocomputing 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2012.02.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Pereira FAC, Colli E, Sartorelli JC. Period adding cascades: experiment and modeling in air bubbling. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2012; 22:013135. [PMID: 22463011 DOI: 10.1063/1.3695345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Period adding cascades have been observed experimentally/numerically in the dynamics of neurons and pancreatic cells, lasers, electric circuits, chemical reactions, oceanic internal waves, and also in air bubbling. We show that the period adding cascades appearing in bubbling from a nozzle submerged in a viscous liquid can be reproduced by a simple model, based on some hydrodynamical principles, dealing with the time evolution of two variables, bubble position and pressure of the air chamber, through a system of differential equations with a rule of detachment based on force balance. The model further reduces to an iterating one-dimensional map giving the pressures at the detachments, where time between bubbles come out as an observable of the dynamics. The model has not only good agreement with experimental data, but is also able to predict the influence of the main parameters involved, like the length of the hose connecting the air supplier with the needle, the needle radius and the needle length.
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Neiman AB, Dierkes K, Lindner B, Han L, Shilnikov AL. Spontaneous voltage oscillations and response dynamics of a Hodgkin-Huxley type model of sensory hair cells. JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL NEUROSCIENCE 2011; 1:11. [PMID: 22282726 PMCID: PMC3265390 DOI: 10.1186/2190-8567-1-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2011] [Accepted: 10/31/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We employ a Hodgkin-Huxley type model of basolateral ionic currents in bullfrog saccular hair cells to study the genesis of spontaneous voltage oscillations and their role in shaping the response of the hair cell to external mechanical stimuli. Consistent with recent experimental reports, we find that the spontaneous dynamics of the model can be categorized using conductance parameters of calcium activated potassium, inward rectifier potassium, and mechano-electrical transduction ionic currents. The model is demonstrated to exhibit a broad spectrum of autonomous rhythmic activity, including periodic and quasiperiodic oscillations with two independent frequencies as well as various regular and chaotic bursting patterns. Complex patterns of spontaneous oscillations in the model emerge at small values of the conductance of Ca(2+) activated potassium currents. These patterns are significantly affected by thermal fluctuations of the mechano-electrical transduction current. We show that self-sustained regular voltage oscillations lead to enhanced and sharply tuned sensitivity of the hair cell to weak mechanical periodic stimuli. While regimes of chaotic oscillations are argued to result in poor tuning to sinusoidal driving, chaotically oscillating cells do provide a high sensitivity to low-frequency variations of external stimuli.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alexander B Neiman
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Neuroscience Program, Ohio University,
Athens, OH 45701, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str.
38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str.
38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Physics Department Humboldt
University Berlin, Philippstr. 13, Haus 2, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Neuroscience Program, Ohio University,
Athens, OH 45701, USA
- School of Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081 Beijing, People's
Republic of China
| | - Andrey L Shilnikov
- Neuroscience Institute and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia
State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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Barrio R, Shilnikov A. Parameter-sweeping techniques for temporal dynamics of neuronal systems: case study of Hindmarsh-Rose model. JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL NEUROSCIENCE 2011; 1:6. [PMID: 22656867 PMCID: PMC3365907 DOI: 10.1186/2190-8567-1-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2011] [Accepted: 07/11/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND Development of effective and plausible numerical tools is an imperative task for thorough studies of nonlinear dynamics in life science applications. RESULTS We have developed a complementary suite of computational tools for two-parameter screening of dynamics in neuronal models. We test a 'brute-force' effectiveness of neuroscience plausible techniques specifically tailored for the examination of temporal characteristics, such duty cycle of bursting, interspike interval, spike number deviation in the phenomenological Hindmarsh-Rose model of a bursting neuron and compare the results obtained by calculus-based tools for evaluations of an entire spectrum of Lyapunov exponents broadly employed in studies of nonlinear systems. CONCLUSIONS We have found that the results obtained either way agree exceptionally well, and can identify and differentiate between various fine structures of complex dynamics and underlying global bifurcations in this exemplary model. Our future planes are to enhance the applicability of this computational suite for understanding of polyrhythmic bursting patterns and their functional transformations in small networks.
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- Roberto Barrio
- Departamento de Matemática Aplicada and IUMA, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009, Zaragoza, Spain
| | - Andrey Shilnikov
- Neuroscience Institute and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 30303, USA
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