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Mechanisms Explaining Transitions between Tonic and Phasic Firing in Neuronal Populations as Predicted by a Low Dimensional Firing Rate Model

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  • Anca R Radulescu

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Several firing patterns experimentally observed in neural populations have been successfully correlated to animal behavior. Population bursting, hereby regarded as a period of high firing rate followed by a period of quiescence, is typically observed in groups of neurons during behavior. Biophysical membrane-potential models of single cell bursting involve at least three equations. Extending such models to study the collective behavior of neural populations involves thousands of equations and can be very expensive computationally. For this reason, low dimensional population models that capture biophysical aspects of networks are needed. The present paper uses a firing-rate model to study mechanisms that trigger and stop transitions between tonic and phasic population firing. These mechanisms are captured through a two-dimensional system, which can potentially be extended to include interactions between different areas of the nervous system with a small number of equations. The typical behavior of midbrain dopaminergic neurons in the rodent is used as an example to illustrate and interpret our results. The model presented here can be used as a building block to study interactions between networks of neurons. This theoretical approach may help contextualize and understand the factors involved in regulating burst firing in populations and how it may modulate distinct aspects of behavior.

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  • Anca R Radulescu, 2010. "Mechanisms Explaining Transitions between Tonic and Phasic Firing in Neuronal Populations as Predicted by a Low Dimensional Firing Rate Model," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 5(9), pages 1-14, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0012695
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012695
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