Network bursts in cortical neuronal cultures: 'noise - versus pacemaker'- driven neural network simulations

Gritsun, T. and Stegenga, J. and Feber le, J. and Rutten, W.L.C. (2009) Network bursts in cortical neuronal cultures: 'noise - versus pacemaker'- driven neural network simulations. In: 4th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, April 29 - May 2, 2009, Antalya, Turkey.

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Abstract:	In this paper we address the issue of spontaneous bursting activity in cortical neuronal cultures and explain what might cause this collective behavior using computer simulations of two different neural network models. While the common approach to acivate a passive network is done by introducing synaptic noise, we show that a small subset of pacemaker neurons can trigger network bursts which better resemble experimental bursts.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2009 IEEE
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Biomedical Signals and Systems (BSS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/62813
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NER.2009.5109374
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