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ArticleNeural computation2011

Synaptic scaling stabilizes persistent activity driven by asynchronous neurotransmitter release.

Vladislav Volman, Richard C Gerkin

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Article in Neural computation, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Time-coded neurotransmitter release at excitatory and inhibitory synapses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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  8. Neural masses and fields in dynamic causal modeling.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2013
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2 authors.

Vladislav VolmanCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. volman@salk.edu
Richard C Gerkin

Funding

TEMPORAL PRECISION AND DYNAMICAL CODING IN THE OLFACTORY BULBF32DC010535 · NIDCD · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI GERKIN, RICHARD C · 2010 to 2012
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NIDCD NIH HHS F32 DC010535
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small networks of cultured hippocampal neurons respond to transient stimulation with rhythmic network activity (reverberation) that persists for several seconds, constituting an in vitro model of synchrony, working memory, and seizure. This mode of activity has been shown theoretically and experimentally to depend on asynchronous neurotransmitter release (an essential feature of the developing hippocampus) and is supported by a variety of developing neuronal networks despite variability in the size of populations (10-200 neurons) and in patterns of synaptic connectivity. It has previously been reported in computational models that "small-world" connection topology is ideal for the propagation of similar modes of network activity, although this has been shown only for neurons utilizing synchronous (phasic) synaptic transmission. We investigated how topological constraints on synaptic connectivity could shape the stability of reverberations in small networks that also use asynchronous synaptic transmission. We found that reverberation duration in such networks was resistant to changes in topology and scaled poorly with network size. However, normalization of synaptic drive, by reducing the variance of synaptic input across neurons, stabilized reverberation in such networks. Our results thus suggest that the stability of both normal and pathological states in developing networks might be shaped by variance-normalizing constraints on synaptic drive. We offer an experimental prediction for the consequences of such regulation on the behavior of small networks.

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Neural Networks, ComputerSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionAnimalsCells, CulturedNeuronsNeurotransmitter AgentsRandom AllocationRatsNeurotransmitter Agents

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PMID21222524
PMCPMC3113703

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