%% iGABAb: scaled synaptic GABA-B-ergic inhibitory current % This is an adaptation of the GABA-B current from (Vijayan and Kopell, 2012). % % The state variable [R] for GABAB is 'customized' here, in that, rather % than the popular formulation of a 0.5 mM box 0.3 ms long for the % transmitter amount, inherited from (Destexhe 1996), the VERY similar % 2 * (1 + tanh( V / 4) ) method of calculating transmitter concentration % from (Olufsen 2003) is used. 0.3 ms is about as long as a neuron's % voltage is above 0 mV, the latter being the definition of when this % voltage-sensitive transmitter concentration is non-zero. The same % concentration amplitude was used since I had already seen a long time % of realistic results with GABAA responding to it, and GABAB's effect % obviously has a much more malleable effector in its maximal conductance. % % In many ways, this is a simplified version of the GABA-B current from (Vijayan % 2012): instead of a fixed spike of transmitter concentration when the % presynaptic cell spikes, we use the same GABA concentration calculation % method from the GABA-A current. % % References: % - Destexhe, A., Bal, T., McCormick, D. A., & Sejnowski, T. J. (1996). Ionic % mechanisms underlying synchronized oscillations and propagating waves in a % model of ferret thalamic slices. Journal of Neurophysiology, 76(3), 2049–2070. % - Olufsen, M. S., Whittington, M. A., Camperi, M., & Kopell, N. (2003). New % roles for the gamma rhythm: population tuning and preprocessing for the beta % rhythm. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 14(1), 33–54. % - Vijayan, S., & Kopell, N. J. (2012). Thalamic model of awake alpha % oscillations and implications for stimulus processing. Proceedings of the % National Academy of Sciences, 109(45), 18553–18558. % doi:10.1073/pnas.1215385109 % % From (Destxhe 1996), % K1 = 0.5 mM^{-1} ms^{-1} % K2 = 0.0012 ms^{-1} % K3 = 0.18 ms^{-1} % K4 = 0.034 ms^{-1} % % Tags: synapse, connection, inhibition %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Parameters gGABAb = 0.001 EGABAb = -95 IC = 0.1 IC_noise = 0 % Connectivity % 'ones' so all-to-all connectivity netcon = ones(N_pre,N_post) scalingFactor = max(sum(netcon), 1) % Functions % Note that because of `gGABAb./sum(netcon)`, the total current to the target is scaled % down by the number of source cells. IGABAb(X,g) = gGABAb./scaleFactor.*((g.^4./(g.^4 + 100))*netcon).*(X-EGABAb) % This way we record the synaptic currents! monitor functions % ODEs and ICs r' = 0.5.*(2.*(1 + tanh(X_pre./4))).*(1-r) - 0.0012.*r; r(0) = IC+IC_noise.*rand(1,Npre); g' = 0.18.*r - 0.034.*g; g(0) = IC+IC_noise.*rand(1,Npre); % Linker @current += -IGABAb(X_post,g)