How effective delays shape oscillatory dynamics in neuronal networks

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Abstract: Synaptic, dendritic and single-cell kinetics generate significant time delays that shape the dynamics of large networks of spiking neurons. Previous work has shown that such effective delays can be taken into account with a rate model through the addition of an explicit, fixed delay [Roxin et al. PRL 238103 (2005)]. Here we extend this work to account for arbitrary symmetric patterns of synaptic connectivity and generic nonlinear transfer functions. Specifically, we conduct a weakly nonlinear analysis of the dynamical states arising via primary instabilities of the asynchronous state. In this way we determine analytically how the nature and stability of these states depend on the choice of transfer function and connectivity. We arrive at two general observations of physiological relevance that could not be explained in previous works. These are: 1 - Fast oscillations are always supercritical for realistic transfer functions. 2 - Traveling waves are preferred over standing waves given plausible patterns of local connectivity. We finally demonstrate that these results show a good agreement with those obtained performing numerical simulations of a network of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons.


In this paper, the authors extended the work of [\textit{A. Roxin, N. Brunel} and \textit{D. Hansel}, Phys. Rev. Lett 94, 238103 (2005) and Prog. Theor. Phys. 161, 68 (2006)] to account for arbitrary symmetric patterns of synaptic connectivity and generic nonlinear transfer functions. They formulated the rate model and conducted a linear stability analysis of the stationary uniform (SU) state. They presented a weakly nonlinear analysis for the four possible primary instabilities of the SU state (asynchronous unpatterned state in a network model), thereby deriving amplitude equations for steady, Turing (bumps), Hopf (global oscillations), and Turing-Hopf (waves) bifurcations. Furthermore, they observed the delay-driven instabilities, i.e. Hopf and Turing-Hopf. And they studied the interactions of pairs of solutions: bumps and global oscillations, and global oscillations and waves.











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