Scale-free topologies and activatory-inhibitory interactions

Chaos. 2006 Mar;16(1):015114. doi: 10.1063/1.2146115.

Abstract

A simple model of activatory-inhibitory interactions controlling the activity of agents (substrates) through a "saturated response" dynamical rule in a scale-free network is thoroughly studied. After discussing the most remarkable dynamical features of the model, namely fragmentation and multistability, we present a characterization of the temporal (periodic and chaotic) fluctuations of the quasi-stasis asymptotic states of network activity. The double (both structural and dynamical) source of entangled complexity of the system temporal fluctuations, as an important partial aspect of the correlation structure-function problem, is further discussed in light of the numerical results, with a view on potential applications of these general results.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Action Potentials / physiology*
  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Biological Clocks / physiology*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / physiology
  • Humans
  • Models, Neurological*
  • Models, Statistical
  • Nerve Net / physiology*
  • Neural Inhibition / physiology*
  • Neurons / physiology*
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Synaptic Transmission / physiology*
  • Time Factors