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Computational Modeling of Retinal Neurons for Visual Prosthesis Research - Fundamental Approaches
Published on: June 21, 2022
Various firing activities and finite-time synchronization of an improved Hindmarsh-Rose neuron model under electric
K Marcel Wouapi1, B Hilaire Fotsin1, F Patrick Louodop1
11Unité de Recherche de Matière Condensée, d'Electronique et de Traitement du Signal (URMACETS), Department of Physics, University of Dschang, P.O. Box 67, Dschang, Cameroon.
Abstract:
Nowadays, it is important to realize systems that can model the electrical activity of neurons taking into account almost all the properties of the intracellular and extracellular environment in which they are located. It is in this sense that we propose in this paper, the improved model of Hindmarsh-Rose (HR) which takes into account the fluctuation of the membrane potential created by the variation of the ion concentration in the cell. Considering the effect of the electric field that is produced on the dynamic behavior of neurons, the essential properties of the model such as equilibrium point and its stability, bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov spectrum, frequency spectra, time series of the membrane potential and phase portraits are thoroughly investigated. We thus prove that Hopf bifurcation occurs in this system when the parameters are chosen appropriately. We also observe that by varying specific parameters of the electric field, the model presents a very rich and striking event, namely hysteresis phenomenon, which justifies the coexistence of multiple attractors. Besides, by applying a suitable sinusoidal excitation current, we prove that the neuron under electric field effect can present several important electrical activities including quiescent, spiking, bursting and even chaos. We propose the improved HR model under electric field effect (mHR) to study the finite-time synchronization between two neurons when performing synapse coupling across the membrane potential and the electric field coupling. As a result, we find that the synchronization between the two neurons is weakly influenced by the variation of the intensity of the electric field coupling while it is strongly impacted when the intensity of the synapse coupling is modified. From these results, it is obvious that the electric field can be another effective bridge connection to encourage the exchange and coding of the signal. Using the finite-time synchronization algorithm, we theoretically quantify the synchronization time between these neurons. Finally, Pspice simulations are presented to show the feasibility of the proposed model as well as that of the developed synchronization strategy.
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