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Competition for AP initiation sites in a circuit controlling simple learning (Cruz et al. 2007)
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"The spatial and temporal patterns of action potential initiations were studied in a behaving leech preparation to determine the basis of increased firing that accompanies sensitization, a form of non-associative learning requiring the
S-interneurons.
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The S-interneurons, one in each ganglion and linked by electrical synapses with both neighbors to form a chain, are interposed between sensory
and motor neurons.
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the single site with the largest initiation rate, the S-cell in the
stimulated segment, suppressed initiations in adjacent ganglia.
Experiments showed this was both because (1) it received the earliest, greatest input and (2) the delayed synaptic
input to the adjacent S-cells coincided with the action potential refractory period.
A compartmental model of the S-cell and its inputs showed that a simple, intrinsic mechanism of inexcitability after each action potential may account for suppression of impulse initiations.
Thus, a non-synaptic competition between neurons alters synaptic integration in the chain.
In one mode, inputs to different sites sum independently, whereas in another, synaptic input to a single site precisely specifies the overall pattern of activity."
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MDD: the role of glutamate dysfunction on Cingulo-Frontal NN dynamics (Ramirez-Mahaluf et al 2017)
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" ...Currently, no mechanistic framework describes how network dynamics, glutamate, and serotonin interact to explain MDD symptoms and treatments. Here, we built a biophysical computational model of 2 areas (vACC and dlPFC) that can switch between emotional and cognitive processing. (Major Depression Disease) MDD networks were simulated by slowing glutamate decay in vACC and demonstrated sustained vACC activation. ..." |
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Reconstrucing sleep dynamics with data assimilation (Sedigh-Sarvestani et al., 2012)
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We have developed a framework, based on the unscented Kalman filter, for estimating hidden states and parameters of a network model of sleep. The network model includes firing rates and neurotransmitter output of 5 cell-groups in the rat brain. |
