Thalamic network model of deep brain stimulation in essential tremor (Birdno et al. 2012)

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"... Thus the decreased effectiveness of temporally irregular DBS trains is due to long pauses in the stimulus trains, not the degree of temporal irregularity alone. We also conducted computer simulations of neuronal responses to the experimental stimulus trains using a biophysical model of the thalamic network. Trains that suppressed tremor in volunteers also suppressed fluctuations in thalamic transmembrane potential at the frequency associated with cerebellar burst-driver inputs. Clinical and computational findings indicate that DBS suppresses tremor by masking burst-driver inputs to the thalamus and that pauses in stimulation prevent such masking. Although stimulation of other anatomic targets may provide tremor suppression, we propose that the most relevant neuronal targets for effective tremor suppression are the afferent cerebellar fibers that terminate in the thalamus."
References:
1 . Birdno MJ, Kuncel AM, Dorval AD, Turner DA, Gross RE, Grill WM (2012) Stimulus features underlying reduced tremor suppression with temporally patterned deep brain stimulation. J Neurophysiol 107:364-83 [PubMed]
2 . Yi G, Grill WM (2018) Frequency-dependent antidromic activation in thalamocortical relay neurons: effects of synaptic inputs. J Neural Eng 15:056001 [PubMed]
Model Information (Click on a link to find other models with that property)
Model Type: Realistic Network; Axon;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:
Cell Type(s): Thalamus geniculate nucleus/lateral principal GLU cell;
Channel(s):
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): GabaA; GabaB; AMPA; NMDA; Glutamate; Gaba;
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s): Gaba; Ions;
Simulation Environment: NEURON; MATLAB;
Model Concept(s): Action Potential Initiation; Temporal Pattern Generation; Axonal Action Potentials; Therapeutics; Deep brain stimulation;
Implementer(s):
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TITLE McCormick and Huguenard Na and K leak channels

INDEPENDENT {t FROM 0 TO 1 WITH 1 (ms)}

NEURON {
	SUFFIX tcleakdepol
	NONSPECIFIC_CURRENT inal
	USEION k READ ek WRITE ik
	RANGE gnal, gkl, ena, minc , tau_m, stimon, nsm, iksub
	POINTER vext, pmodyn		: vext turns into a dummy variable to determine whether a stim pulse is ON
}


UNITS {
	(mA) = (milliamp)
	(mV) = (millivolt)
}

PARAMETER {
	gnal	= 0.00000086	(mho/cm2)
	gkl  	= 0.03	(mho/cm2)
	m_inf = 1 
	mmin = 0
	tau_m = 2000 (ms)
	minc = 0.0025 (/ms)
	stimon = 0
	nsm = 1

:	ek	= -95	(mV)
	ena	= 45	(mV)

	celsius		(degC)
	dt              (ms)
	v               (mV)
}

STATE {
	m
}

ASSIGNED {
	ek (mV)
	inal	(mA/cm2)
	iksub	(mA/cm2)
	ik	(mA/cm2)
	vext	: vext turns into a dummy variable to determine whether a stim pulse is ON
	pmodyn
}


BREAKPOINT {
	SOLVE states METHOD euler
	
	inal = gnal * (v - ena)
	
	if (m < 0) {
		m = 0
	}
	iksub = gkl * m * (v - ek)
	ik = iksub
}

DERIVATIVE states {   : exact Hodgkin-Huxley equations
	eval_stimon(vext)
	m' = (m_inf - m) / tau_m - nsm*pmodyn*minc
}

INITIAL {
	m=m_inf
}

PROCEDURE eval_stimon(vext) {  : vext turns into a dummy variable to determine whether a stim pulse is ON
	if(vext==0) {
		stimon=0
	}else{
		stimon=1
	}
}

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