Inhibitory autapses enhance coherence resonance of a neuronal network (Q2219580)

The authors investigate the enhancement of coherence resonance (CR) in a Hodgkin-Huxley neuronal network due to inhibitory autapses. They show that after introducing inhibitory autapses, multiple noise induced CR appear at multiple time delays of inhibitory autapses and discuss in detail this behavior i.e., the enhancement of the CR degree as signature of the stable focus near the Hopf bifurcation. They also discuss de reduction of the CR degree by inhibitory autapses for time delays almost equal multiples of the firing period. The CR dynamics are analyzed in detail as functions of autaptic strength and time delay. The above results concerning the counterintuitive phenomenon of CR enhancement by inhibitory autapses which contrasts to the conventional view that inhibitory effects suppress the neuronal activities are expected to improve the content of nonlinear dynamics, as well as representing an approach to modulate CR or the firing behavior of neuronal networks. Thus, the results of the paper enrich the phenomena induced by inhibitory effects via the post-inhibitory rebound spikes mechanism.