Control of epileptic activities in a cortex network of multiple coupled neural populations under electromagnetic induction (Q2690039)

It is a contribution to current investigations on better understanding brain activity and neurological diseases as the epilepsy, by means of neural networks technology. The idea here is to perform experiments by using neural mass models that describe the electroencephalography (EEG) activity in form of a connection between the average postsynaptic membrane potential and the average presynaptic pulse density. To model the high-frequency epileptic EEG activities, a cortex network of multiple coupled neural populations has been considered. The network construction is based on the model presented in the article of \textit{F. Wendling} et al. [``Epileptic fast activity can be explained by a model of GABAergic dendritic inhibition'', European J. Neurosci. 15, No. 9, 1499--1508 (2002; \url{doi:10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.01985.x})]. The second section is devoted to the description of the architecture, dynamics and interpretation of variables and parameters of the cortex network. For the numerical integration the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method is reported to have been used. Numerical results on control of various epilepsy waveforms are shown and largely discussed in the third section followed by some conclusions in the fourth section. Complementary mathematical elements are presented in the Appendix A and Appendix B.