Biology – Quantitative Biology – Neurons and Cognition
Scientific paper
2011-01-07
Chaos 20, 045106 (2010)
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Neurons and Cognition
Scientific paper
Occurrence of strong or mass synchronization of a large number of neuronal populations in the brain characterizes its pathological states. In order to establish an understanding of the mechanism underlying such pathological synchronization we present a model of coupled populations of phase oscillators representing the interacting neuronal populations. Through numerical analysis, we discuss the occurrence of mass synchronization in the model, where a source population which gets strongly synchronized drives the target populations onto mass synchronization. We hypothesize and identify a possible cause for the occurrence of such a synchronization, which is so far unknown: Pathological synchronization is caused not just because of the increase in the strength of coupling between the populations but also because of the strength of the strong synchronization of the drive population. We propose a demand-controlled method to control this pathological synchronization by providing a delayed feedback where the strength and frequency of the synchronization determines the strength and the time delay of the feedback. We provide an analytical explanation for the occurrence of pathological synchronization and its control in the thermodynamic limit.
Chandrasekar V. K.
Lakshmanan Meenakshi
Sheeba Jane H.
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