STABLE MODES OF ACTIVITY IN PACEMAKER NEURONS WITH OPEN-LOOP SYNAPTIC INPUT,

Abstract

The consequences of inhibitory or excitatory interactions between pacemaker neurons were predicted mathematically and through digital-computer simulations, and were then confirmed experimentally in abdominal ganglia of Aplysia califor nica and in stretch receptors of Procambarus clarkii. Characteristic self-stablizing discharge patterns occur under conditions that do not involve feedback. Increased arrival rates of inhibitory (or excitatory) input can cause a paradoxical increase (or decrease) in firing rate. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0431869

Entities

People

  • Donaldh. Perkel
  • George P. Moore
  • Jose P. Segundo
  • Joseph H. Schulman
  • Theodore H. Bullock

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Simulators
  • Digital Computers
  • Feedback
  • Firing Rate
  • Fish
  • Pacemakers
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Neuroscience