Nonparametric modeling of single neuron

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008:2008:2469-72. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649700.

Abstract

Nonlinear dynamic models were built with Volterra Lagurre kernel method to characterize the input-output properties of single hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. Broadband Poisson random impulse trains with a 2 Hz mean frequency, which include the majorities of the spike patterns in behaving rats, were used to stimulate the Schaffer collaterals. Corresponding random-interval post-synaptic potential (PSP) and spike train data were recorded from the cell bodies using whole-cell recording technique and then analyzed with the nonlinear dynamic model. The model consists of two major components, i.e., a feedforward three order Volterra kernel model characterizing the transformation of presynaptic stimulations to pre-threshold PSPs, and a feedback one order Volterra kernel model capturing the spike-triggered after-potential. Results showed that the model could predict 1) the sub-threshold PSPs trace with a normalized mean square error around 10% and 2) the spikes with accuracy higher than 80%.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Electrodes
  • Electrophysiology / methods
  • Male
  • Models, Neurological
  • Models, Statistical
  • Neurons / metabolism
  • Neurons / physiology*
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Poisson Distribution
  • Pyramidal Cells / pathology*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Synaptic Potentials