Vertical System (VS) tangential cells network model (Trousdale et al. 2014)

Network model of the VS tangential cell system, with 10 cells per hemisphere. Each cell is a two compartment model with one compartment for dendrites and one for the axon. The cells are coupled through axonal gap junctions. The code allows to simulate responses of the VS network to a variety of visual stimuli to investigate coding as a function of gap junction strength.

Model Type: Realistic Network; Axon; Synapse; Dendrite

Cell Type(s): Fly vertical system tangential cell

Receptors: Nicotinic; GabaA

Transmitters: Acetylcholine; Gaba

Model Concept(s): Activity Patterns; Spatio-temporal Activity Patterns; Simplified Models; Invertebrate; Connectivity matrix

Simulation Environment: Python

Implementer(s): Gabbiani, F; Trousdale, James [jamest212 at gmail.com]

References:

Trousdale J, Carroll SR, Gabbiani F, Josić K. (2014). Near-optimal decoding of transient stimuli from coupled neuronal subpopulations. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 34 [PubMed]