title: When pyramidal neurons lock, when they respond chaotically, and when they like to synchronize.
abstract: We give an overview on the locking properties of perturbed regularly firing pyramidal neurons, as a function of perturbation strength, self-spiking frequency and perturbation frequency. For inhibitory perturbations, instead of locking chaotic response emerges for a whole range of parameters. This suggests that global synchronization on the set of inhibitory connections may easily be achieved.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Neuroinformatik, ETHZ/UNIZH, Zürich, Switzerland. ruedi@ini.phys.ethz.ch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stoop
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schindler
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Bunimovich
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D003344:Cortical Synchronization; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats