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. 2019 Mar 2;13(4):393–407. doi: 10.1007/s11571-019-09526-z

Bifurcation analysis and diverse firing activities of a modified excitable neuron model

Argha Mondal 1,2, Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay 1,, Jun Ma 3, Binesh Kumar Yadav 1, Sanjeev Kumar Sharma 1, Arnab Mondal 1
PMCID: PMC6624231  PMID: 31354884

Abstract

Electrical activities of excitable cells produce diverse spiking-bursting patterns. The dynamics of the neuronal responses can be changed due to the variations of ionic concentrations between outside and inside the cell membrane. We investigate such type of spiking-bursting patterns under the effect of an electromagnetic induction on an excitable neuron model. The effect of electromagnetic induction across the membrane potential can be considered to analyze the collective behavior for signal processing. The paper addresses the issue of the electromagnetic flow on a modified Hindmarsh–Rose model (H–R) which preserves biophysical neurocomputational properties of a class of neuron models. The different types of firing activities such as square wave bursting, chattering, fast spiking, periodic spiking, mixed-mode oscillations etc. can be observed using different injected current stimulus. The improved version of the model includes more parameter sets and the multiple electrical activities are exhibited in different parameter regimes. We perform the bifurcation analysis analytically and numerically with respect to the key parameters which reveals the properties of the fast-slow system for neuronal responses. The firing activities can be suppressed/enhanced using the different external stimulus current and by allowing a noise induced current. To study the electrical activities of neural computation, the improved neuron model is suitable for further investigation.

Keywords: Improved H–R model, Electromagnetic induction effect, Bifurcation, Various neuronal responses, Noise

Introduction

The dynamics of electrical activities in the nervous system mainly responds to the propagation and transmission of signals (Coombes and Bressloff 2005; Izhikevich 2007; Wang and Ma 2018). The basic functional unit of the nervous system is neurons which compose the large nervous system with astrocyte and gliocytes cells (Tang et al. 2013, 2016; Li et al. 2016). The different firing activities and information processing present complex nonlinear dynamical behavior (Izhikevich 2007; Ma and Tang 2015). Based on the experimental results, different biophysical mathematical neuron models have been constructed. The application of nonlinear dynamical theory and numerical computational results on these models reveal the biophysical phenomena often found in the experiments. The mathematical neuron models (Izhikevich 2004) advance the rapid development in biophysical research and it allows theoretical and computational studies of neural computation. Many research articles have been studied the electrical activities (Tsaneva-Atanasova et al. 2010; Lv et al. 2016; Lv and Ma 2016; Herz et al. 2006; Bertram and Rubin 2017; Upadhyay et al. 2017) and collective behavior of networks (Izhikevich et al. 2003; Zhou et al. 2012; Wig et al. 2011). The various firing activities of single neurons involve different patterns such as quiescent, different spiking and bursting using suitable injected current stimulus and different parameter sets. It is considered that the variations of membrane voltage depend on the transmembrane current functions, on-off switching conditions of ion channels and even functional activities generated by astrocyte (Tang et al. 2013). The nonlinear neuronal oscillators are biologically plausible and computationally efficient to describe the electrical activities of neurons.

The injected current stimulus and electrical field cause variations in the membrane voltage. The variations in ionic conductances occur when the charged ionic particles pass through the ion channels across the membrane. Time delay can be considered in the excitable biophysical model and there is a potential importance to estimate the memory effects in the time delayed system. Apart from the effects of ion channel concentrations, the biophysical effects of autapse can be considered to study the mode transition and various electrical activities (Bekkers 2003; Song et al. 2015; Herrmann and Klaus 2004; Qin et al. 2014). It is biophysically plausible to describe the memory flux across the cell membrane. The activity of memristor is widely used in nonlinear dynamical systems and electrical circuits (Bao et al. 2016; Wu et al. 2016a, b). The major effects of electromagnetic induction can be considered during the variations of ionic concentrations across the cell membrane. It can originate time dependent electromagnetic field and induced current stimulus in the media (Lv and Ma 2016; Lv et al. 2016; Xu et al. 2017; Wang et al. 2017; Zhan and Liu 2017). Hence, the magnetic flux can be introduced to show the effect of electromagnetic induction in the cell. It is often found that the bifurcation analysis can be useful to understand the transition of electrical activities i.e., the firing behavior and its stability. The experimental studies and further works on bifurcation analysis help us to understand the different transition modes of firing patterns of neurons (Xiao-Bo et al. 2008; Gu et al. 2013, 2014). More predominant parameters can be incorporated in the H–R model to investigate the intrinsic dynamics and bifurcation analysis (Shilnikov and Kolomiets 2008; Storace et al. 2008; Barrio and Shilnikov 2011; Gu and Pan 2015).

In this article, the effects of electromagnetic induction are considered on an improved version of H–R model by introducing more controlled bifurcation parameters (Perc and Marhl 2005) using an externally injected current stimulus. In order to facilitate the analytical and numerical computations, we demonstrate that the qualitative behavior of the excitable model is suitable to study the firing activities and the bifurcations which control different firing patterns at different key parameters. Further, the role of noise in changing the dynamical properties of the excitable biological systems (Faisal et al. 2008; Higham 2001; Lindner et al. 2004) are studied. The effects of noise have potential applications in neuronal systems (Ditlevsen and Samson 2013; Perc 2006; Longtin 2010). Generally, it is observed that noise can excite the quiescent state of the neuron, however it can also suppress the natural firing activities of the neurons. We add white Gaussian noise to the system to demonstrate the changes in firing activity of the system. The injected force such as noise induces the deterministic system into a stochastic one under certain parameter regimes (Wang et al. 2017). Such complete fast-slow system analysis provides different views of the solution. The approach of the solution technique reveals the nature of the attractors and inner dynamics of the system.

The description of the improved H–R system

The H–R system consists of three coupled ODEs (Izhikevich 2004; Lv et al. 2016; Shilnikov and Kolomiets 2008; Barrio and Shilnikov 2011). The effects of electromagnetic induction is considered during the variations of membrane voltage of excitable cells. The formulation of the improved model is based on the H–R model. The dynamical equations for the modified version of the H–R system with induced electromagnetic induction and injected current stimulus are described as follows (Tsaneva-Atanasova et al. 2010; Lv and Ma 2016; Lv et al. 2016)

u˙=-s(-a1u3+u2)-v-b1z+I-k1uχ(w)=f1(u,v,z,w),v˙=φ(u2-v)=f2(u,v,z,w),z˙=ε(sa2u+b2-kz)=f3(u,v,z,w),w˙=u-k2w=f4(u,v,z,w), 1

where the functions f1,f2,f3 and f4 are sufficiently smooth functions and the systems variables (uvzw) R4. The parameters φ and ε denote the rate constants that control the separation of time scale. The state variable, u represents the membrane voltage of the H–R neuron. The system variables, v and z measure the gating dynamics of the (K+) ion channels and the dynamics of cytosolic (Ca+2) channels respectively (Tsaneva-Atanasova et al. 2010). The function f1 indicates a cubic polynomial function that confirms N-shaped u-nullcline. It measures the contribution of Ca+2 ionic inward current. The negative value of v in the right hand side expression of first equation of Eq. 1 indicates the contribution of the outward voltage sensitive ionic K+ currents. The value (-b1z) measures the contribution of the outward calcium-sensitive potassium current. The function f2 displays the delayed rectifier activation kinetics. It depends on the membrane voltage. The third function f3 is a linear function and it shows the dynamics of Ca+2 ionic channels. The expression including (sa2u+b2) exchanges the source of calcium ions across the voltage-gated Ca+2 ion channels where b2 measures the location of the fixed point of the system and the parameter s<0 controls the location and type of bifurcation in the system. The term (-kz) is responsible for decay dynamics of cytosolic Ca+2 channels (Tsaneva-Atanasova et al. 2010). The first two equations present the fast subsystem and the third equation indicates the slow subsystem. We consider φ=1 in the system for numerical computation and ε>0 has small positive value. The exchange of ions through cell membrane can generate variations in membrane voltage and time dependent electromagnetic field can be generated in the neuronal cell. The electromagnetic induction (Lv et al. 2016; Lv and Ma 2016) is considered in the system. The fourth system variable, w indicates the magnetic flux across the cell membrane. The function χ(w)=(α+3βw2) describes the memory conductance of a magnetic flux-controlled memristor (Bao et al. 2010; Muthuswamy 2010; Li et al. 2015). The function, χ(w) explores the coupling relation between magnetic flux and membrane voltage of the H–R neuron. The memory conductance of memristor can be expressed as χ(w)=(α+3βw2), where α and β represent fixed parameter values (Li et al. 2015). The parameters k1 and k2 measure the interaction between membrane voltage and magnetic flux. The term k1uχ(w) denotes the suppression modulation on membrane voltage and it depends on the variation of magnetic flux by generating current function (Lv and Ma 2016; Lv et al. 2016; Xu et al. 2017). A negative feedback condition (-k2w) is considered due to the effects of sodium and potassium ionic currents to the membrane voltage and magnetic flux condition across the cell membrane.

Stability, Bifurcation analysis and diverse firing activities of the improved H–R system

The mathematical model may be useful for further investigation in the transition of different electrical activities by time varying injected current under the effect of electromagnetic induction. To study the nature of the dynamical behavior of the system, we analyze the stability, bifurcation and various firing activities. To find the fixed points, we consider E=(u,v,z,w) be an equilibrium point of the system 1 at (I=0) (see “Appendix A”). Two different parameter sets are considered for numerical simulation (Tsaneva-Atanasova et al. 2010; Lv et al. 2016) where a1=0.5,b1=1,k=0.2,a2=-0.1,s=-2.6, k1=0.4,k2=0.5,α=0.4,β=0.02, Set I: ε=0.07,b2=-0.01, and Set II: ε=0.66,b2=-0.21 respectively. The applied injected current stimulus is considered as I=Acos(ηt), where η measures the angular frequency and A is the amplitude of the external current stimulus. The real equilibrium points at the parameter sets I and II are (a) E1=(0.03559,0.0013,-0.0037,0.0712) and (b) E2=(0.9072,0.8230,0.1294,1.8144) respectively. Now, it follows that E1 is a stable focus node and E2 is a saddle focus which is unstable. The system 1 is in a resting state condition at first parameter set and the system exhibits oscillatory behavior at the second parameter set around the unstable equilibrium solution. Now, the bifurcation scenarios and the various firing properties are studied at the above parameter sets.

Bifurcation analysis

We draw the bifurcation scenarios with the predefined predominant prameters b2 and s respectively at the two parameter sets with different external stimulus current, I using MATCONT software. First, we consider parameter Set I and I=0. For b2<-0.267234, the system has a stable focus node and there exists quiescent state. For -0.267234<b2<-0.015778, the system changes its behavior from quiescent state to bursting then tonic spiking and later it shows regular spiking as we increase the value of the parameter b2. The system has unstable focus node and saddle node in between -0.267235<b2<-0.015778 after that there arises a stable focus node. The quiescent state disappears through a supercritical Hopf bifurcation (HB1) by the birth of a stable limit cycle at b2 = -0.267235. The limit cycle changes its stability through Neimark Sacker (NS) bifurcation at b2=-0.252867 and b2=-0.2171847 respectively. As we increase the value of b2, the limit cycle changes its stability through period doubling bifurcation (PD) and limit point bifurcation of cycles (LPC) at b2=-0.1810327, b2=-0.1381578 and b2=-0.01501188 respectively. Again the quiescent state appears through a subcritical Hopf bifurcation (HB2) at b2 = -0.015778. In Fig. 1a, the thick blue line describes the stable region and dashed blue line describes the unstable region of fixed points. A stable limit cycle (thick green line) changes its stability to an unstable limit cycle shown in dashed red line. Now, we consider parameter Set II and I=0. For b2<-0.2804, the system has a stable focus node and there exists quiescent state. For -0.2804<b2<-0.02300, the system changes its behavior from quiescent state to tonic spiking as we increase the value of the parameter b2. The system has unstable focus node in between -0.2804<b2<-0.02300 after that there arises a stable focus node. As we increase the value of b2 the quiescent state disappears through a supercritical Hopf bifurcation (HB1) at b2 = -0.2804. The stable limit cycle changes its stability through limit point bifurcation of cycles (LPC) at b2=-0.01917948. The quiescent state again appears through a subcritical Hopf bifurcation (HB2) at b2 = -0.02300. In Fig. 1b, the thick blue line describes the stable region and dashed blue line describes the unstable region of fixed points. A stable limit cycle (thick green line) changes its stability to an unstable limit cycle shown in dashed red line. Next, we consider s as predominant parameter with parameter Set II and I=0, for s>-1.9314, the system has a stable focus node and there exist quiescent state. For s<-1.9314, the system has unstable focus node upto s=-4.0785 and after that it has saddle point. As we decrease the value of s the quiescent state disappears through a supercritical Hopf bifurcation (HB1) at s=-1.9314, which indicates the born of a limit cycle at this point (see Fig. 1c). The stable limit cycle changes its stability through period doubling bifurcation (PD) at b2=-3.684862. Next, we consider the parameter Set I with external stimulus I=0.07cos(0.4t). The system undergoes chaotic region and with the increase of s, it enters into period halving bifurcation region (see Fig. 2a).With parameter Set I and I=0.07cos(0.4t), it bifurcates from two points and generates period doubling bifurcation. Next, it undergoes multiple periodic patterns with the increase of b2. Finally, with further increase of b2, it undergoes period halving bifurcation from the two windows and enters into limit cycle region (see Fig. 2b).

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Bifurcation scenarios of the improved H–R system (1) with I=0. The thick blue line describes the stable equilibrium branch and dashed blue line describes the unstable equilibrium branch. The stable and unstable limit cycles are denoted by thick green line and dashed red line respectively. a and bb2 as a predominant parameter with set I and set II respectively. cs as a predominant parameter with set II. (Color figure online)

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Bifurcation scenarios of the system 1 with the predominant parameter s and b2 at parameter set I respectively under electromagnetic induction and different external current stimulus

We perform the bifurcation scenarios with respect to the feedback gain parameter k1 as the predominant parameter from negative to positive region at the two parameter sets and remaining parameters have their base values. We can change the dynamics by varying the values of k1 under the action of electromagnetic induction with the help of bifurcation scenarios. At the second parameter set, the system enters into a chaotic and limit cycle regions alternatively and finally, it shows multiple single periodic windows from chaotic region (see Fig. 3).

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Bifurcation scenarios of the system 1 with feedback gain parameter k1 as the predominant parameter of the system at the two parameter sets respectively under electromagnetic induction and current stimulus aI=0.07cos(0.4t), and bI=0.1cos(0.5t) respectively

We analytically derive the Hopf bifurcation point with the predominant parameter b2 to verify the numerical results (see Fig. 1a).

The characteristic equation of the system 1 can be written as

g(λ;b2)=m0λ4+m1λ3+m2λ2+m3λ+m4=0, 2

the coefficients of the characteristic Eq. 2 are described in “Appendix B”. In Andronov–Hopf bifurcation case (Hsü and Kazarinoff 1976, 1977; Kuznetsov 1998), it produces a limit cycle from a fixed point or equilibrium solution in a dynamical systems of ODEs, when the fixed point changes its stability through a pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues. The bifurcation can be supercritical or subcritical, resulting in stable or unstable limit cycle, respectively.

Consider the model 1 with the predominant parameter b2, where the equilibrium point is E=(u,v,z,w) depending on b2. Let the eigenvalues of the Jacobian (see “Appendix B”) about the fixed point E becomes λ(b2),λ¯(b2)=α(b2)±iβ(b2). Suppose the following conditions are satisfied for particular critical value of b2, say b2=b2(crt).

  1. The Jacobian matrix J (see “Appendix B”) has a simple pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues and other eigenvalues have negative real parts at the critical value of b2 around the fixed point E (i.e., α(b2crt)=0,β(b2crt)=c0, known as non-hyperbolicity condition). Then there exists a smooth curve of fixed point with the critical point of b2 and the eigenvalues vary smoothly with the change of b2. Moreover, if

  2. dα(b2)db2b2=b2crt=d0 (known as transversality condition), then the system undergoes a Hopf-bifurcation.

To test the Hopf-bifurcation analysis, assume that the characteristic equation has a pair of purely imaginary roots λ1,2=±iβ(β>0), then the equation becomes (iβ)4+m1(iβ)3+m2(iβ)2+m3(iβ)+m4=0, this implies β4-m1(iβ3)-m2β2+m3(iβ)+m4=0. Accordingly, we separate the real and imaginary parts we have -m1β3+m3β=0,β4-m2β2+m4=0, i.e., β=m3/m1 and β2=(m2±m22-4m4)/2.

Consider the charactersitic polynomial g(λ;b2) where b2 represents the predominant or control parameter of the system. Assume that there is a smooth curve of equilibium solution E at b2=b2(crt) for the H–R system 1. With the help of Routh-Hurwitz (R-H) condition, it can be described that for the occurence of a simple Hopf bifurcation the above conditions (a) and (b) are equivalent to the following conditions on the coefficients of the characteristic equation g(λ;b2). m1>0, m4>0,m1m2-m0m3>0,f=m0m32+m4m12-m1m2m3=0 and dfdb20 at b2=b2(crt). Suppose there exists an interval containing the point b2=b2(crt) for some preassigned ε>0, so that b2(b2(crt)-ε,b2(crt)+ε). The characteristic equation of the equilibrium point has purely imaginary roots. Numerically, the complex roots of the characteristic Eq. 2 are derived in “Appendix C”.

At parameter Set I, substitute f=0, we find the critical value of b2. The point becomes b2=-0.2673 while the remaining parameters are fixed. We derived analytically the value of λ1(b2),λ2(b2)=α(b2)±iβ(b2) at this critical point of b2. It is observed that the real parts of eigenvalue becomes α(b2)=-m14m0+S and imaginary part is β(b2)=12-4S2-2P-Q/S. At parameter Set I, the value of the equilibrium point at b2=-0.2673 becomes E=(u,v,z,w)(1.031797,1.064604,0.004836,2.06359). The complex roots become λ1,λ2±1.11805i=±βi (it is verified by β=m3/m1=1.1177) and the other two real roots become μ=λ3-0.535036,ψ=λ4-0.027388. Now, it is observed that all the R-H criterion are satisfied at the critical value of b2 around the fixed point E. Therefore, the system exhibits a simple Hopf-bifurcation around b2=-0.2673. Now, using condition (b), it can be found that the derivative of real parts of the complex eigenvalue is non zero and it is α(b2(crt)=-0.2673)=2.978880.

To find the stability of the bifurcating periodic solution, we consider the following method (Hsü and Kazarinoff 1976, 1977). Suppose the system can be written as x˙=Ax+Fx,b2 where x=(u,v,z,w)T and it is written x for x-E to shift the fixed point at origin. A is the linearized matrix at the equilibrium point E=(u,v,z,w) i.e., the Jacobian matrix, J (see “Appendix B”). Suppose A has two purely complex eigenvalues as mentioned above and F is analytic in x and b2. Then the bifurcation theorem (Hsü and Kazarinoff 1977) ensures that a one parameter family of periodic solutions exists for one of the conditions of the values of b2=b2(crt) or b2>b2(crt) or b2<b2(crt). It can be found from the formula (See “Appendix C”) (Hsü and Kazarinoff 1976, 1977) (also known as genericity condition). If μ20, then under the conditions of Hopf-bifurcation (a) and (b), the bifurcating periodic solutions emerging from the fixed point E=(u,v,z,w) near the control parameter b2=b2(crt) are aymptotically orbitally stable with asymptotic phase if μ2α(b2=b2(crt))>0, however it is unstable if μ2α(b2=b2(crt))<0. Now, numerically the value of μα(b2=b2(crt)) can be found using above formula. The bifurcating periodic solutions emerging from the fixed point E at parameter Set I with critical value of b2 are aymptotically orbitally stable with asymptotic phase as μα(b2=b2(crt))=2.10397>0. Here, the dynamical phenomenon in Hopf-bifurcation includes that a stable focus node becomes saddle focus as the control parameter is increased around a neighbourhood of b2 and the attractor becomes a limit cycle attractor. This analytical results show that the occurrence of Hopf bifurcation at the crictical value b2=-0.2673 is supercritical which verified our numerical results (see Fig. 1a).

Various firing activities

The deterministic system dynamics is integrated using fourth-order Runge–Kutta (R–K) method with time step 0.001. The initial conditions of the system variables are used small positive quantities randomly perturbed from the real fixed points of the system 1. The different types of spiking and bursting patterns are observed under negative feedback induction current function as well as positive feedback induction current function (i.e., positive and negative values of k1). The system can change its oscillatory behavior with multiple electrical activities from quiescent state at an appropriate parameter set by injecting a periodic current stimulus. Various bursting patterns are exhibited with the increase of amplitude of the periodic currents for different angular frequencies, η. The spiking behavior are observed with small intensity of injected current and bursting are produced with larger intensity of current amplitudes for different angular frequencies.

First, we consider negative feedback induced current with k1=0.4 (Lv et al. 2016). It is found that resting state, periodic firing state, fast spiking oscillations, regular/irregular bursting, chattering, mixed mode oscillations can be produced by changing appropriate external periodic applied stimulus, I=Acos(ηt) at both the parameter sets. At I=0, the system is in a resting state condition (see Fig. 4a). With the increase of amplitude A and various angular frequency η, the system produces different spiking and bursting. With A=0.03, the system produces train of regular spikes (η=0.03) and chattering (η=0.04) (see Fig. 4b–c). When the external stimulus converges to A=0.07 with η=0.001 and η=0.4, the system generates periodic spiking and mixed mode oscillations (see Fig. 4d–e). The mixed mode oscillations consist of multiple number of regular single spikes and subthreshold oscillations. While the external stimulus is changed to A=0.5, fast spiking oscillations are generated with η=0.001 and another kind of regular periodic bursting with η=0.05 respectively (see Fig. 4f–g). Now, with fixed η=0.005 and various amplitude of A=0.5 and 1.5, the improved H–R system produces regular square wave bursting and different bursting patterns (see Fig. 4h–i).

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

The time series scenarios of membrane voltage of the system 1 at parameter Set I under different injected current stimulus. aA=0, η=0, b, cA=0.03, η=0.03 and 0.04, d, eA=0.07, η=0.001 and 0.4, f, gA=0.5, η=0.001 and 0.05, h, iη=0.005, A=0.5 and 1.5 respectively

Now, we consider positive feedback induction current function with k1=-0.4 to observe the firing activities of the systems at different current stimulus, I (see Fig. 5). The electrical activities at parameter Set I for I=0 shows that, the system fires with regular spikes however, the system is in resting state condition with negative feedback induction current. With A=0.07 and η=0.4, the system produces multiple number of irregular spikes while with k1=0.4, the system generates mixed mode oscillations. With the increase of amplitude of current A=0.1 and η=0.01, the system shows spikes with different interspike intervals. However, with negative feedback current, the system presents regular bursting. Further, with the increase of A=0.5 and η=0.02, the firing behavior of negative and positive feedback current is different. One shows bursting and another produces spiking.

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

The time series scenarios of membrane voltage of the system 1 at parameter Set I under different injected current stimulus, I with positive feedback induced current function k1=-0.4. aA=0.0, η=0.0, bA=0.07, η=0.4, cA=0.1, η=0.01 and dA=0.5, η=0.02 respectively

Next, we deal with the parameter Set II for negative feedback current (see Fig. 6). With A=0.1, the system produces irregular multiple spiking when the angular frequency is considered as η=0.1, regular fast spiking with η=0.8 and irregular bursting with η=1 respectively. With the increase of A=0.2 and η=0.5, it produces bursting and with A=0.5 and η=0.05, it also exhibits different bursting patterns. Bursting patterns with subthreshold oscillations can be observed with A=0.8 and η=0.1 (see Fig. 6).

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

The time series scenarios of membrane voltage of the system 1 at parameter Set II under different external injected current stimulus. acA=0.1, η=0.1,0.8 and 1, dA=0.2, η=0.5, eA=0.5, η=0.05 and fA=0.8, η=0.1 respectively

Now, we consider the positive feedback current with k1=-0.4 (see Fig. 7). The system produces planar bursting behavior (Izhikevich 2007) with A=0.1 and η=0.1, however the system shows irregular multiple spiking with negative feedback current function. The system produces regular spiking at A=0.2 and η=0.5 however, the nature of the firing pattern is different in the two cases. With A=0.5 and η=0.05, the system shows bursting.

Fig. 7.

Fig. 7

The time series scenarios of membrane voltage of the system 1 at parameter Set II under different injected current stimulus, I with positive feedback induced current function k1=-0.4. aA=0.1, η=0.1, bA=0.2, η=0.5 and cA=0.5, η=0.05 respectively

Noise induced oscillations

Noise can act as a driving force in nonlinear dynamical systems. The noisy system dynamics can be explored by allowing a white Gaussian noise current (σξ(t)) in the system with noise intensity, σ and satisfies the properties ξ(t)=0,ξ(t),ξ(t1)=2Dδ(t-t1) which shows the autocorrelation function and D=σ2/2. The noise amplitudes can be scaled using the value of σ to achieve higher noise intensities. The noise induced system can be considered as dYt=f(Yt,θ)+σ(Yt,θ)dWt, where {Yt=Y(t)}t0 shows the stochastic process. {Wt=W(t)}t0 indicates a Wiener process. It can be expressed in the form dWt=ξtdt, where {ξt=ξ(t)}t0 is the white noise process. The functions (Yt,θ) and σ(Yt,θ) present the drift and diffusion coefficients of the stochastic system where θ is the parameter space. In this work, the additive white noise is considered. Assume the discretization of time steps 0=t0<t1<t2<<ti<<tN=T. Now, the time steps are defined as Δti=ti+1-ti and the increments of the Wiener process are defined as ΔWi=W(ti+1)-W(ti). It defines that ΔWiN(0,Δt) which is used to costruct the solution of the stochastic differential equations and it is assumed that the process is time-homogeneous. The noisy system assumes that some degree of noisiness exists in the dynamical processes of the system. We use EM (Higham 2001; Ditlevsen and Samson 2013) technique to compute the numerical results and consider small positive values as initial conditions. The solution is computed in a discretized way by allowing a fixed time interval with time step 0.01. The effective noisy current term is injected through first equation of Eq. 1 as Ieffc=I+σξ(t). We will show the effects of noise only at parameter set I as the system is in a steady state condition with I=0. While we apply small noise, the system shows subthreshold oscillation and with the increase of noise amplitudes, σ, the system shows occassional single spikes and irregular multiple spiking activities (see Fig. 8). With the increase of noise intensities, the basic bursting patterns are changed and irregular bursting patterns are achieved at the two parameter sets (see Figs. 8 and 9).

Fig. 8.

Fig. 8

Noise induced the time series of membrane voltage of the system 1 at parameter Set I under different external injected current stimulus. acA=0.0, η=0.0 and σ=0.008,0.01,0.05, dfA=0.1, η=0.001,0.04,0.3 and σ=0.008 respectively

Fig. 9.

Fig. 9

Noise induced the time series of membrane voltage of the system 1 at parameter Set II under different external injected current stimulus. aA=0.1, η=1 and σ=0.1, bA=0.8, η=0.1, σ=0.1, respectively

It is observed that multiple firing patterns are exhibited by the neuron model. It can be found that when noise amplitudes are increased, it produces irregular firing activities or even it forces the system to evoke a spike. This indicates that noisy stimulus could be different from the injected periodic forcing on the neuron model. Finally, the quantity signal-noise-ratio (SNR) (Lee and Kim 1999; Chik et al. 2001; Baltanas and Casado 2002) is measured to observe the possible statistical properties for membrane voltages i.e., the calculated time series. Stochastic resonance (SR) can be observed when the external random fluctuations are increased in a deterministic system. It has been observed in many excitable systems and it can be quantified and reported in biophysical oscillatory systems. It is a noise induced process that enhances the nonlinear responses of the nonlinear model systems. It is known that neurons inherently show stochastic behavior for signal transmission and they can also respond to a weak signal. SR can be relevant to the signal detection and coding of information in sensory neurons. In our case, an excitatory model is periodically forced in the presence of Gaussian noise, when a bell shaped SNR curve is achieved using the different weak noise strengths, it shows the SR effects. We introduce a sinusoidal applied force by allowing noise in the system. A resonance takes place between the signal and the noise induced oscillations at the first parameter set. One type of features of SR is to enhance the signal processing and encoding the signals in the systems. It can be measured using the signal to noise ratio. When a weak noise is applied in the system, the bell shaped SNR increases with the increase of frequency of periodical force. We present it for the first parameter set with weak noise intensities. If the noise strength becomes large, it becomes flattened.

SNR generally measures the dimensionless quantity of the output signal power to the injected Gaussian noise in the neuroscience applications. In our case, the signal i.e., the membrane voltage is noise affected. Suppose it is a random variable, then the output firing patterns i.e., the spikes is a summation of deterministic and stochastic signals. The random variable’s power equals to its mean-squared value, i.e., expected value of its square and injected white noise has zero mean. The resulting SNR equals to E(S2)/σ2noise, where σ2 measures the variance of noise term, here it equals to 0.01. In excitable systems, noise allows to cross the subthreshold values of the response of the system to produce spikes. The characteristic feature of the noise-induced resonance of the system can be computed using SNR values for several values of the sinusoidal applied forcing frequency for different values of noise intensity. In our case, the location of the maxima values of the SNR are obtained at a same range of frequency for increasing of noise intensity. The occurrence of SR in excitable systems needs the conjunction of a periodic appllied signal with noise term and a threshold. Figure 10 shows that noise plays a constructive role where it leads to an increase of SNR values as noise strengths is increased to a certain extent.

Fig. 10.

Fig. 10

The values of signal-to-noise ratio for different values of external forcing frequency at A=0.1 for different noise intensities σ=0.008,0.04,0.09 under the effects of electromagnetic induction with the parameter Set I

Further study

It can be observed the effects of electromagnetic induction on a modified M-L neuron proposed by Larter et al. (1999). The model responses the electrical activities of the hippocampal region involving the dynamics of seizure like activity. It is a three dimensional conductance based model to observe the effects of inhibitory interneurons synapsing on pyramidal cells. The features of the model are useful to study the excitation and inhibition on the system dynamics. The model presents the relationship between the excitatory principal cells interacting with inhibitory interneurons with appropriate functional relation (Larter et al. 1999; Upadhyay et al. 2017). The dynamical equations are represented by the following coupled nonlinear ODEs

V˙=-gCam(V)(V-VCa)-gKW(V-VK)-gL(V-VL)+I+I0-αinh(Z)Z,W˙=(w(V)-W)/τw(V),Z˙=bcI+bVαexc(V), 3

where m(V)=0.5(1+tanh((V-V1)/V2)), w(V)=0.5(1+tanh((V-V3)/V4)), 1/τwV=ϕcoshV-V3/2V4. αinh(Z)=αinh(1+tanh((Z-V7)/V6)) and αexc(V)=αexc(1+tanh((V-V5)/V6)). The variables V and Z represent the mean membrane voltages of excitatory and inhibitory cells respectively. The system variable W measures the fraction of open potassium channels at any instant of time. The detailed descriptions and other meanings of the parameters are discussed in the articles (Larter et al. 1999; Upadhyay et al. 2017). It is a fast-slow system. The system has a rich dynamics. The interesting dynamical properties are occurred due to the interactions between faster subsystem and a slower one with the inhibitory interneurons. The dimensionless parameters αexc and αinh measure the synaptic strengths of excitatory neurons and inhibitory interneurons. The trigonometric hyperbolic expressions αexc(V) and αinh(Z) are parametrized using the above dimensionless parameters. We show the bifurcation scenarios at a constant injected current, I with the effects of magnetic induction on different firing activities with a fixed parameter set. We consider the following parameter set (Larter et al. 1999)

gCa=1.1,VCa=1,V1=-0.01,V2=0.15,gK=2,gL=0.5,VL=-0.5,αinh=1,ϕ=0.7,V3=0.0,V4=0.3,b=0.1,αexc=1.0,V5=0.0,V7=0.0,V6=0.6,c=0.35,VK=-0.7.

The system dynamics can be improved as system 1 by introducing the magnetic flux. The parameter set is considered as the previous model with the variable external current stimulus I=Acos(ηt). Now, the different firing activities are observed with variable injected current I. The spiking pattern (mixed mode oscillation) is observed from Fig. 11a with I=0.3,I0=0.0 and rest of the values of electromagnetic induction function are same as described in previous section. In Fig. 11b–d, the applied current is considered as periodic stimulus as described in Eq. 3, I=Acos(ηt) with I0=0.3. The different spiking and bursting behavior (regular spiking, fast spiking, bursting) are observed using the effects of induction and various stimulus currents. Therefore, the modified spiking M-L model produces bursting under the effects of electromagnetic induction. One can study further with this model with electromagnetic induction and noise effects. We consider k1 as the predominant parameter. The bifurcation scenario of the system under the effects of electromagnetic induction at a constant injected current I=0.3 (with I0=0) is presented in Fig. 11e. It has two windows pattern and undergoes limit cycle and chaotic region alternatively with the increase of k1. Later, it has period one pattern from two windows and shows some scattered phase points in a small neighborhood of k1=0.6 and accumulates it in the small region.

Fig. 11.

Fig. 11

The time series of membrane voltage of the system 3 with eletromagnetic induction as system 1 under different external injected current stimulus aI=0.3, bI=0.03cos(0.1t), cI=0.1cos(0.05t) and dI=0.3cos(0.06t) respectively. e Bifurcation diagram of the same system under electromagnetic induction effect with k1 as the predominant parameter

Discussions and conclusions

The improved and modified H–R neuron model is based on the original 3D H–R model. The dynamical properties are examined by introducing the effects of electromagnetic induction. The effects of electromagnetic induction is considered using magnetic flux across cell membrane (Ma et al. 2017a, b; Lv and Ma 2016; Lv et al. 2016). An injected current stimulus is added to the system. It can be observed that the neuron model responds to certain injected stimulus with various firing activities at certain parameter regimes. The bifurcation scenarios are observed and analyzed considering some of the parameters of the system as the predominant parameters. The condition of Hopf bifurcation is studied with respect to certain predominant parameters of the system.

Next, we consider an induced additive noise through the membrane voltage of the H–R system. We observed that noise effects on the firing activities of the systems at the first parameter set. It forces the stable systems to produce spiking behavior with the increase of noise intensities. The noisy firing activities are demonstrated in the article at different noise amplitudes. The variations in the membrane voltage and signal processing in neural system can originate electrical field and induced current due to the effect of electromagnetic induction. The signals and information in the neurons could be recorded under the effect of magnetic field (Lv and Ma 2016; Lv et al. 2016; Xu et al. 2017). The system can produce various types of spiking and bursting with suitable induced current stimulus at certain parameter sets. This model may be helpful to understand the various electrical activities with induced electromagnetic induction and applied current stimulus. Further, the network of this system can be used to analyze the collective behavior of neurons under electromagnetic induction effects with noise.

Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India under Grant No. 25(0277)/17/EMR-II) to the author (R. K. Upadhyay).

Appendix A

The equilibrium points are derived from the following system of equations

(a1s-3β(k1/k22))u3-(s+1)u2-(b1s(a2/k)+k1α)u-(b1b2/k)=0, 4a
v=u2, 4b
z=(1/k)(sa2u+b2), 4c
w=(1/k2)u. 4d

In the following, we consider the nature of roots of Eq. (4a) to obtain the values of u. Eq. (4a) can be written as f(u)=p0u3+p1u2+p2u+p3=0, where p0=(a1s-3β(k1/k22)),p1=-(s+1), p2=-(b1s(a2/k)+k1α), p3=-(b1b2/k) with the condition a1sk223βk1 at the preassigned parameter set. The number and types of the roots are determined using the discriminant of the cubic equation. The general solution of the equation involves the following expressions

Δ0=p12-3p0p2,Δ1=2p13-9p0p1p2+27p02p3, and D1=Δ1±Δ12-4Δ03/23.

The general rule to find all the roots of the cubic equation is of the following form un=-(1/3p0)(p1+ξnD1+Δ0/(ξnD1))(n=0,1,2), where ξ=-(1/2)+(1/2)3i (which denotes a cube root of unity). Now, we can easily obtain the corresponding roots of the equation.

Appendix B

The variational matrix is derived from the system 1 as follows

JE=-s(-3a1u2+2u)-k1(α+3βw2)-1-b1-6k1βuw2u-100εsa20-kε0100-k2.

The coefficients of the characteristic Eq. 2 are as follows

  • m0=1, m1=k2+kε+1-3a1su2+2us+k1α+3βk1w2,

  • m2=kk2ε+k2+(k2+kε+1)(-3a1su2+2su+k1α+3βk1w2)+kε+2u+a2b1εs+6βk1uw,

  • m3=kk2ε+(kk2ε+kε+k2)(-3a1su2+2su+k1α+3βk1w2)+2u(k2+kε)+a2b1εs(k2+1)+6βk1uw(kε+1),

  • m4=kk2ε(-3a1su2+2su+k1α+3βk1w2)+2kk2εu+a2b1k2εs+6βkk1εuw.

Appendix C

The complex roots are λ1,λ2=-m14m0+S±12-4S2-2P-Q/S, where P=(8m0m2-3m12)/8m02,Q=(m13-4m0m1m2+8m02m3)/8m03, S=0.5-(2/3)P+(1/3m0)(R+Δ3/R), R=0.5(Δ2+Δ22-4Δ33)3, Δ2=2m23-9m1m2m3+27m12m4+27m0m32-72m0m2m4 and Δ3=m22-3m1m3+12m0m4.

Genericity condition is as follows

μ2α(b2(crt))=1c[(f111+f221)f121-(f112+f222)f122-f111f112+f221f222]-[f1111+f1221+f1122+f2222]+2μ2+ψ2+4c2[c{(f113-f223)(f231+f132)+(f241+f142)(f114-f224)}+μf123(f231+f132)+ψf124(f241+f142)]+2μ(f113+f223)(f131+f232)+2ψ(f114+f224)(f141+f242)+1μ2+ψ2+4c2[(f131-f232){μ(f113-f233)-4cf123}+(f141-f242){ψ(f114-f224)-4cf124}],

where fijk=2fkyiyj(0,b2(crt)) and fijlk=3fkyiyjyl(0,b2(crt))(i,j,k=1,2,3,4). Now, Inline graphic and M is a nonsingular matrix such that M-1AM=U at b2=b2(crt), y=(y1,y2,y3,y4)T. F is the nonlinear functions and it becomes

F=(sa1u3+3sa1u2u-su2-3k1βw2(u+u)-6k1βuww,u2,0,0)T.

The matrix U becomes

U=0β00-β00000μ0000ψ,

A is the Jacobian matrix whose elements are a110.9511832408,a12=-1,a13=-1,a14-0.1022020445, a212.06359359,a22=-1,a23=0,a24=0,a31=0.0182,a32=0,a33=-0.014,a34=0,a41=1,a42=0,a43=0,a44=-0.5 around the fixed point E with the critical value of b2 at parameter Set I. Suppose v1,v2,v3 be the eigenvectors corresponding to the eigenvalues λ1,λ2=±iβ,λ3=μ,λ4=ψ, then consider the nonsingular matrix M= col (Re(v1),Im(v1),v2,v3) and the elements are derived as m110.35329475,m120.395077699,m13-0.0345995049,m14-0.2907838,m210.72919971,m22=0,m23-0.1535589,m24-0.616957,m310.006501239,m32-0.00567079,m330.00120857,m340.39528619,m410.4122414,m42-0.131707,m430.9875328,m44-0.6152702.

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