// insert_synapses.hoc
// inserts EPSP generating synaptic mechanism into spine
// 1 g_syn mechanism is put in each of three spine heads and also
// another one is placed on dend1[879] for figure 5B
objref syn[4]
spine_cntr=0
forsec "spine_head" {
syn[spine_cntr]=new syn_g(0.5)
syn[spine_cntr].onset=20
syn[spine_cntr].tau0=0.2
syn[spine_cntr].tau1=2.0
// gmax value is modifed depending on the figure
syn[spine_cntr].gmax=500e-6 // or 0, or 0.051
spine_cntr=spine_cntr+1
}
// this dendr. EPSP is only used for Fig 5B
// otherwise gmax set to 0
dend1[879] syn[3] = new syn_g(0.5)
syn[3].onset = 5
syn[3].tau0 = 0.2
syn[3].tau1 = 2
syn[3].gmax = 0.0105 // or 0
syn[3].e = 0