Neuronal Stochastic Variability: Influences on Spiking Dynamics and Network Activity

• Main Author: Benjamin Lindner (auth)
• Other Authors: Joshua H. Goldwyn (auth), Mark D. McDonnell (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Balanced network; Hodgkin-Huxley model; neuronal variability; Channel noise; neural networks; heterogeneity; stochastic dynamics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Stochastic fluctuations are intrinsic to and unavoidable at every stage of neural dynamics. For example, ion channels undergo random conformational changes, neurotransmitter release at synapses is discrete and probabilistic, and neural networks are embedded in spontaneous background activity. The ma...