Time-delayed feedback in neurosystems

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2009 Mar 28;367(1891):1079-96. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0258.

Abstract

The influence of time delay in systems of two coupled excitable neurons is studied in the framework of the FitzHugh-Nagumo model. A time delay can occur in the coupling between neurons or in a self-feedback loop. The stochastic synchronization of instantaneously coupled neurons under the influence of white noise can be deliberately controlled by local time-delayed feedback. By appropriate choice of the delay time, synchronization can be either enhanced or suppressed. In delay-coupled neurons, antiphase oscillations can be induced for sufficiently large delay and coupling strength. The additional application of time-delayed self-feedback leads to complex scenarios of synchronized in-phase or antiphase oscillations, bursting patterns or amplitude death.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Axons / physiology
  • Feedback / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Models, Neurological*
  • Neurons / physiology*
  • Oscillometry
  • Reaction Time
  • Stochastic Processes