Spikes Synchronization in Neural Networks with Synaptic Plasticity

TL;DR

This study explores how synaptic plasticity influences neural spike synchronization in Hodgkin-Huxley neuron networks under external perturbations, highlighting potential implications for neural disorder control.

Contribution

It provides new insights into the role of synaptic plasticity in neural synchronization dynamics under external perturbations.

Findings

Synaptic plasticity can induce synchronization despite external perturbations.

External perturbations alone tend to produce non-synchronized neural regimes.

The study offers implications for neural disorder interventions.

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the neural spikes synchronisation in a neural network with synaptic plasticity and external perturbation. In the simulations the neural dynamics is described by the Hodgkin Huxley model considering chemical synapses (excitatory) among neurons. According to neural spikes synchronisation is expected that a perturbation produce non synchronised regimes. However, in the literature there are works showing that the combination of synaptic plasticity and external perturbation may generate synchronised regime. This article describes the effect of the synaptic plasticity on the synchronisation, where we consider a perturbation with a uniform distribution. This study is relevant to researches of neural disorders control.