{"title":"Cortical dynamics of neural-connectivity fields.","authors":"Gerald K Cooray, Vernon Cooray, Karl J Friston","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00903-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00903-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Macroscopic studies of cortical tissue reveal a prevalence of oscillatory activity, that reflect a fine tuning of neural interactions. This research extends neural field theories by incorporating generalized oscillatory dynamics into previous work on conservative or semi-conservative neural field dynamics. Prior studies have largely assumed isotropic connections among neural units; however, this study demonstrates that a broad range of anisotropic and fluctuating connections can still sustain oscillations. Using Lagrangian field methods, we examine different types of connectivity, their dynamics, and potential interactions with neural fields. From this theoretical foundation, we derive a framework that incorporates Hebbian and non-Hebbian learning - i.e., plasticity - into the study of neural fields via the concept of a connectivity field.</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"373-391"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12181116/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inferring collective synchrony observing spiking of one or several neurons.","authors":"Arkady Pikovsky, Michael Rosenblum","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00900-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00900-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We tackle a quantification of synchrony in a large ensemble of interacting neurons from the observation of spiking events. In a simulation study, we efficiently infer the synchrony level in a neuronal population from a point process reflecting spiking of a small number of units and even from a single neuron. We introduce a synchrony measure (order parameter) based on the Bartlett covariance density; this quantity can be easily computed from the recorded point process. This measure is robust concerning missed spikes and, if computed from observing several neurons, does not require spike sorting. We illustrate the approach by modeling populations of spiking or bursting neurons, including the case of sparse synchrony.</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"305-320"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143694068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabriele Scheler, Martin L Schumann, Johann Schumann
{"title":"Localist neural plasticity identified by mutual information.","authors":"Gabriele Scheler, Martin L Schumann, Johann Schumann","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00901-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00901-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present a model of pattern memory and retrieval with novel, technically useful and biologically realistic properties. Specifically, we enter n variations of k pattern classes (n*k patterns) onto a cortex-like balanced inhibitory-excitatory network with heterogeneous neurons, and let the pattern spread within the recurrent network. We show that we can identify high mutual-information (MI) neurons as major information-bearing elements within each pattern representation. We employ a simple one-shot adaptive (learning) process focusing on high MI neurons and inhibition. Such 'localist plasticity' has high efficiency, because it requires only few adaptations for each pattern. Specifically, we store k=10 patterns of size s=400 in a 1000/1200 neuron network. We stimulate high MI neurons and in this way recall patterns, such that the whole network represents this pattern. We assess the quality of the representation (a) before learning, when entering the pattern into a naive network, (b) after learning, on the adapted network, and (c) after recall by stimulation. The recalled patterns could be easily recognized by a trained classifier. The recalled pattern 'unfolds' over the recurrent network with high similarity to the original input pattern. We discuss the distribution of neuron properties in the network, and find that an initial Gaussian distribution changes into a more heavy-tailed, lognormal distribution during the adaptation process. The remarkable result is that we are able to achieve reliable pattern recall by stimulating only high information neurons. This work provides a biologically-inspired model of cortical memory and may have interesting technical applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"321-331"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143694073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dopamine modulation of basolateral amygdala activity and function.","authors":"Alexey Kuznetsov","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00897-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00897-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The basolateral amygdala (BLA) is central to emotional processing, fear learning, and memory. Dopamine (DA) significantly influences BLA function, yet its precise effects are not clear. We present a mathematical model exploring how DA modulation of BLA activity depends on the network's current state. Specifically, we model the firing rates of interconnected neural groups in the BLA and their responses to external stimuli and DA modulation. BLA projection neurons are separated into two groups according to their responses-fear and safety. These groups are connected by mutual inhibition though interneurons. We contrast 'differentiated' BLA states, where fear and safety projection neurons exhibit distinct activity levels, with 'non-differentiated' states. We posit that differentiated states support selective responses and short-term emotional memory. On the other hand, non-differentiated states represent either the case in which BLA is disengaged, or the activation of the fear and safety neurons is at a similar moderate or high level. We show that, while DA further disengages BLA in the low activity state, it destabilizes the moderate activity non-differentiated BLA state. We show that in the latter non-differentiated state the BLA is hypersensitive, and the polarity of its responses (fear or safety) to salient stimuli is highly random. We hypothesize that this non-differentiated state is related to anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"359-372"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Jing, Sylvia Xi, Ivan Fransazov, Joshua H Goldwyn
{"title":"Axon initial segment plasticity caused by auditory deprivation degrades time difference sensitivity in a model of neural responses to cochlear implants.","authors":"Anna Jing, Sylvia Xi, Ivan Fransazov, Joshua H Goldwyn","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00902-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00902-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Synaptic and neural properties can change during periods of auditory deprivation. These changes may disrupt the computations that neurons perform. In the brainstem of chickens, auditory deprivation can lead to changes in the size and biophysics of the axon initial segment (AIS) of neurons in the sound source localization circuit. This is the phenomenon of axon initial segment (AIS) plasticity. Individuals who use cochlear implants (CIs) experience periods of hearing loss, and so we ask whether AIS plasticity in neurons of the medial superior olive (MSO), a key stage of sound location processing, would impact time difference sensitivity in the scenario of hearing with cochlear implants. The biophysical changes that we implement in our model of AIS plasticity include enlargement of the AIS and replacement of low-threshold potassium conductance with the more slowly-activated M-type potassium conductance. AIS plasticity has been observed to have a homeostatic effect with respect to excitability. In our model, AIS plasticity has the additional effect of converting MSO neurons from phasic firing type to tonic firing type. Phasic firing is known to have greater temporal sensitivity to coincident inputs. Consistent with this, we find AIS plasticity degrades time difference sensitivity in the auditory deprived MSO neuron model across a range of stimulus parameters. Our study illustrates a possible mechanism of cellular plasticity in a non-peripheral stage of neural processing that could impose barriers to sound source localization by bilateral cochlear implant users.</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"267-288"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12181223/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144065170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A generalized mathematical framework for the calcium control hypothesis describes weight-dependent synaptic plasticity.","authors":"Toviah Moldwin, Li Shay Azran, Idan Segev","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00894-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00894-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The brain modifies synaptic strengths to store new information via long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD). Evidence has mounted that long-term synaptic plasticity is controlled via concentrations of calcium ([Ca<sup>2+</sup>]) in postsynaptic dendritic spines. Several mathematical models describe this phenomenon, including those of Shouval, Bear, and Cooper (SBC) (Shouval et al., 2002, 2010) and Graupner and Brunel (GB) (Graupner & Brunel, 2012). Here we suggest a generalized version of the SBC and GB models, the fixed point - learning rate (FPLR) framework, where the synaptic [Ca<sup>2+</sup>] specifies a fixed point toward which the synaptic weight approaches asymptotically at a [Ca<sup>2+</sup>]-dependent rate. The FPLR framework offers a straightforward phenomenological interpretation of calcium-based plasticity: the calcium concentration tells the synaptic weight where it is going and how quickly it goes there. The FPLR framework can flexibly incorporate various experimental findings, including the existence of multiple regions of [Ca<sup>2+</sup>] where no plasticity occurs, or plasticity observed experimentally in cerebellar Purkinje cells, where the directionality of calcium-based synaptic changes is reversed relative to cortical and hippocampal neurons. We also suggest a modeling approach that captures the dependency of late-phase plasticity stabilization on protein synthesis. We demonstrate that due to the asymptotic nature of synaptic changes in the FPLR rule, the plastic changes induced by frequency- and spike-timing-dependent plasticity protocols are weight-dependent. Finally, we show how the FPLR framework can explain the weight-dependence observed in behavioral time scale plasticity (BTSP).</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"333-357"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12181224/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claudio Di Geronimo, Alain Destexhe, Matteo Di Volo
{"title":"Biologically realistic mean field model of spiking neural networks with fast and slow inhibitory synapses.","authors":"Claudio Di Geronimo, Alain Destexhe, Matteo Di Volo","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00904-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00904-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present a mean field model for a spiking neural network of excitatory and inhibitory neurons with fast GABA <math><mmultiscripts><mrow></mrow> <mi>A</mi> <mrow></mrow></mmultiscripts> </math> and nonlinear slow GABA <math><mmultiscripts><mrow></mrow> <mi>B</mi> <mrow></mrow></mmultiscripts> </math> inhibitory conductance-based synapses. This mean field model can predict the spontaneous and evoked response of the network to external stimulation in asynchronous irregular regimes. The model displays theta oscillations for sufficiently strong GABA <math><mmultiscripts><mrow></mrow> <mi>B</mi> <mrow></mrow></mmultiscripts> </math> conductance. Optogenetic activation of interneurons and an increase of GABA <math><mmultiscripts><mrow></mrow> <mi>B</mi> <mrow></mrow></mmultiscripts> </math> conductance caused opposite effects on the emergence of gamma oscillations in the model. In agreement with direct numerical simulations of neural networks and experimental data, the mean field model predicts that an increase of GABA <math><mmultiscripts><mrow></mrow> <mi>B</mi> <mrow></mrow></mmultiscripts> </math> conductance reduces gamma oscillations. Furthermore, the slow dynamics of GABA <math><mmultiscripts><mrow></mrow> <mi>B</mi> <mrow></mrow></mmultiscripts> </math> synapses regulates the appearance and duration of transient gamma oscillations, namely gamma bursts, in the mean field model. Finally, we show that nonlinear GABA <math><mmultiscripts><mrow></mrow> <mi>B</mi> <mrow></mrow></mmultiscripts> </math> synapses play a major role to stabilize the network from the emergence of epileptic seizures.</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"289-303"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143996642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brianna Marsh, Sylvain Chauvette, Mingxiong Huang, Igor Timofeev, Maxim Bazhenov
{"title":"Network effects of traumatic brain injury: from infra slow to high frequency oscillations and seizures.","authors":"Brianna Marsh, Sylvain Chauvette, Mingxiong Huang, Igor Timofeev, Maxim Bazhenov","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00895-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00895-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have a multitude of effects on neural functioning. In extreme cases, TBI can lead to seizures both immediately following the injury as well as persistent epilepsy over years to a lifetime. However, mechanisms of neural dysfunctioning after TBI remain poorly understood. To address these questions, we analyzed human and animal data and we developed a biophysical network model implementing effects of ion concentration dynamics and homeostatic synaptic plasticity to test effects of TBI on the brain network dynamics. We focus on three primary phenomena that have been reported in vivo after TBI: an increase in infra slow oscillations (<0.1 Hz), increase in Delta power (1 - 4 Hz), and the emergence of broadband Gamma bursts (30 - 100 Hz). Using computational network model, we show that the infra slow oscillations can be directly attributed to extracellular potassium dynamics, while the increase in Delta power and occurrence of Gamma bursts are related to the increase in strength of synaptic weights from homeostatic synaptic scaling triggered by trauma. We also show that the buildup of Gamma bursts in the injured region can lead to seizure-like events that propagate across the entire network; seizures can then be initiated in previously healthy regions. This study brings greater understanding of the network effects of TBI and how they can lead to epileptic activity. This lays the foundation to begin investigating how injured networks can be healed and seizures prevented.</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"247-266"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12181067/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143525251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural waves and computation in a neural net model III: preplay, working memory and bursts.","authors":"S A Selesnick","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00899-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00899-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Evidence in favor of an earlier conjecture, namely that the low frequency autonomic regime of neural waves acts as a governing or operating system, processing incoming stimuli in various ways for the purposes of conducting computations, is presented in the context of our network model. The rôle of this low frequency regime in the implementation of preplay compares favorably with recent experimental findings in mice. This is followed by a discussion and analysis of three problems arising from considerations of Working Memory processes. Namely, distinguishability, garbage collection and distractor avoidance. The rôle of inhibitory bursts arises spontaneously in the last two scenarios.</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"199-218"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143652034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Damien Depannemaecker, Federico Tesler, Mathieu Desroches, Viktor Jirsa, Alain Destexhe
{"title":"Modeling impairment of ionic regulation with extended Adaptive Exponential integrate-and-fire models.","authors":"Damien Depannemaecker, Federico Tesler, Mathieu Desroches, Viktor Jirsa, Alain Destexhe","doi":"10.1007/s10827-025-00893-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10827-025-00893-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To model the dynamics of neuron membrane excitability many models can be considered, from the most biophysically detailed to the highest level of phenomenological description. Recent works at the single neuron level have shown the importance of taking into account the evolution of slow variables such as ionic concentration. A reduction of such a model to models of the integrate-and-fire family is interesting to then go to large network models. In this paper, we introduce a way to consider the impairment of ionic regulation by adding a third, slow, variable to the adaptive Exponential integrate-and-fire model (AdEx). We then implement and simulate a network including this model. We find that this network was able to generate normal and epileptic discharges. This model should be useful for the design of network simulations of normal and pathological states.</p>","PeriodicalId":54857,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11868341/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}