Date of Award

12-2020

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Neuroscience Institute

First Advisor

Andrey Shilnikov

Second Advisor

Daniel Cox

Third Advisor

Igor Belykh

Fourth Advisor

Mukesh Dhamala

Abstract

In this modelling work, we adopted geometric slow-fast dissection and parameter continuation approach to study the following three topics: 1. Principles for making the half-center oscillator, a ubiquitous building block for many rhythm-generating neural networks. 2. Causes of a novel electrical behavior of neurons, amplitude modulation, from the view of dynamical systems; 3. Explanation and predictions for two common types of chaotic dynamics in single neuron model. To make our work as general as possible, we used and built both exemplary biologically plausible Hodgkin-Huxley type neuron models and reduced phenomenological neuron models.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.57709/20297319

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