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. 2014 Nov 13;10(11):e1003924. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003924

Table 1. All parameters used in the model (including the neural and dopamine components) are provided according to their notation used in the paper, with their description, their value, and their basic units.

Parameter Description Value Units
Inline graphic Mean opening threshold of Ca channels −0.01 mV
Inline graphic Variance of of number of open Ca channels 0.15 mV
Inline graphic Average conductance of Ca channels 1.1 mS/ms
Inline graphic Nernst potential of Ca channels 1.0 mV
Inline graphic Mean opening threshold of K channels 0.0 mV
Inline graphic Variance of number of open K channels 0.3 mV
Inline graphic Average conductance of K channels 2.0 mS/ms
Inline graphic Nernst potential of K channels −0.7 mV
Inline graphic Mean opening threshold of open Na channels 0.3 mV
Inline graphic Variance of number of open Na channels 0.15 mV
Inline graphic Average conductance of Na channels 6.7 mS/ms
Inline graphic Nernst potential of Na channels 0.53 mV
Inline graphic Nernst potential of leak channels −0.5 mV
Inline graphic Average conductance of leaky ions 0.5 mS/ms
Inline graphic Mean potential of firing excitatory neurons 0.54 mV
Inline graphic Mean potential of firing inhibitory neurons 0.0 mV
Inline graphic Dispersion of potential of firing excitatory neurons 2.0 mV
Inline graphic Dispersion of potential of firing inhibitory neurons 0.7 mV
Inline graphic Noise current amplitude 0.3 ms−1
Inline graphic Excitatory-to-excitatory strength 0.4 mS
Inline graphic Excitatory-to-inhibitory strength 2.0 mS
Inline graphic Inhibitory-to-excitatory strength Inline graphic mS
Inline graphic Excitatory noise input strength Inline graphic mS
Inline graphic Inhibitory noise input strength 0.4 mS
Inline graphic Temperature scaling factor of K channels 0.7
Inline graphic Relaxation time of K channels 1.0 ms
Inline graphic NMDA-to-AMPA strength 0.25
Inline graphic Maximum rate of dopamine re-uptake 0.004 mM/ms
Inline graphic Michaelis–Menten constant 0.125 mM
Inline graphic Tonic dopamine level 0.05 mM
Inline graphic Minimum dopamine production rate 0.0005 mM/neural firing
Inline graphic Maximum dopamine production rate 0.01 mM/neural firing
Inline graphic Dopamine antagonist strength 0.2 mM−1
Inline graphic Maximum dopamine gain 50
Inline graphic Minimum dopamine gain 1.0
Inline graphic Maximum firing rate of exitatory neurons 1 kHz
Inline graphic Maximum firing rate of inhibitory neurons 1 kHz
Inline graphic Inhibitory noise current scaling factor 0.1

Abbreviations: mV  =  Millivolt, mS  =  Millisiemens, ms  =  Millisecond, mM  =  Millimole, kHz  =  Kilohertz.