Modulation of synchronous gamma rhythm clusters
Denis Zakharov, Martin Krupa, Victor Tyutin, Boris Gutkin
Gamma rhythm plays a key role in a number of cognitive tasks: working memory, sensory processing and routing of information across neural circuits. In comparison with other (lower frequency) oscillations it is sparser and heterogeneous in space. One way to model such properties of gamma rhythm is to describe it through a neural network consisting of interacting populations of pyramidal cells (excitatory neurons) and interneurons (inhibitory neurons), demonstrating cluster synchronization. The structure of such clusters can be modulated by endogenous neuromodulators: dopamine, acetylcholine, adrenaline, etc. In this article we consider the reconfiguring of synchronous clusters of pyramidal
interneuron gamma rhythm (pyramidal interneuron gamma, PING) due to the variation of the frequency adaptation parameter of pyramidal cells and the strength of excitatory synaptic connections. We have shown that the variation of the frequency adaptation parameter has the strongest impact on the strongest influence on the cluster structure and can lead to either an increase or a decrease of the number of synchronous clusters.
CYBERNETICS AND PHYSICS, Vol. 8, No. 3. 2019, 185-188. https://doi.org/10.35470/2226-4116-2019-8-3-185-188