Gail, Annette (2004). Bursting in a model with delay for networks of neurons. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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It is the intention of this thesis to analyse the mechanisms that lead to bursting in a neuron model. The neuron model used within the thesis describes the membrane potentials as well as the postsynaptic potentials of neurons. The neuron is modelled by a coupled nonlinear system of three differential equations with delay. It consists of a FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillator that is to be considered as an oscillation generator at the axon hillock of the neuron. Further, the model consists of a network equation that sums up all incoming signals and describes the synaptic properties of the neuron. The solutions of the neuron model display three different types of dynamics: stationary behaviour, bursting and spiking. Bursting is characterised by periodic oscillations that are separated by phases of quasistationary behaviour. Permanent oscillations however are called spiking. The different types of dynamics depend on the parameters of the neuron model. Bursting in the analysed model has been regarded up to now as a phenomenon that arises due to the interaction of different time scales within the model. Parameter values that lead to bursting were obtained empirically. It was the aim of this thesis to find a connection between the appearance of bursting and the bifurcation properties of the neuron model. For this purpose the neuron model was analysed using three different approaches. These were the analysis of the complete system for the limiting case of infinite delay time T of the model, the analysis of the stability of the stationary solutions of the model for finite and infinite delay and a bifurcation analysis of the complete system using a numerical bifurcation tool for delay differential equations. The investigations resulted in criteria for the occurence of bursting with respect to the bifurcation parameter for small/finite and large/infinite delay. Finally in this thesis the neuron model was used to describe qualitatively the behaviour of postsynaptic potentials of nerve cells. The idea of different time scales was applied to a small but realistic neural network of three neurons which made it possible to model different types of postsynaptic potentials.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-12329 | ||||||||
Date: | 2004 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Physics > Institute for Theoretical Physics | ||||||||
Subjects: | Physics | ||||||||
Date of oral exam: | 12 July 2004 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/1232 |
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