title: Noise-enhanced neuronal reliability.
abstract: This work shows that noise can enhance the discharge time reliability in Hodgkin-Huxley neuron models stimulated by weak periodic and aperiodic inputs. By expanding the Fokker-Planck equation of an elementary model for excitable systems, the dependence of the optimal noise intensity on input characteristics is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems and Human Science, School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-8531 Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanabe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pakdaman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009474:Neurons / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors