Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2009-05-28
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
27 pages, 14 figures
Scientific paper
According to the conventional approach to model neural ensembles the extracellular environment has fixed ionic concentrations. However, in many cases the extracellular concentration of potassium ions can not be regarded as constant. That represents specific chemical pathway for neurons to interact and can influence strongly the behavior of a single neuron as well as large ensembles. The released chemical agent follows a diffusive dynamics in the external medium, that lowers the threshold of individual excitable units. We address this problem by studying simplified excitable units given by a modified FitzHugh-Nagumo dynamics. In our model neurons interact only chemically via the released and diffusing potassium in the surrounding non-active medium. We study the dynamics of a single excitable unit embedded in the extracellular matter. That leads to a number of noise-induced effects, like self-modulation of firing rate in an individual neuron. In the spatially extended situation various patterns appear ranging from spirals and traveling waves to oscillons and inverted structures depending on the parameters of the medium.
Muller Francois
Postnov D. E.
Schimansky-Geier Lutz
Schuppner R. B.
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