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Exact analytical results for integrate-and-fire neurons driven by excitatory shot noise
Authors:Felix Droste  Benjamin Lindner
Institution:1.Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience,Berlin,Germany;2.Department of Physics,Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin,Berlin,Germany
Abstract:A neuron receives input from other neurons via electrical pulses, so-called spikes. The pulse-like nature of the input is frequently neglected in analytical studies; instead, the input is usually approximated to be Gaussian. Recent experimental studies have shown, however, that an assumption underlying this approximation is often not met: Individual presynaptic spikes can have a significant effect on a neuron’s dynamics. It is thus desirable to explicitly account for the pulse-like nature of neural input, i.e. consider neurons driven by a shot noise – a long-standing problem that is mathematically challenging. In this work, we exploit the fact that excitatory shot noise with exponentially distributed weights can be obtained as a limit case of dichotomous noise, a Markovian two-state process. This allows us to obtain novel exact expressions for the stationary voltage density and the moments of the interspike-interval density of general integrate-and-fire neurons driven by such an input. For the special case of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons, we also give expressions for the power spectrum and the linear response to a signal. We verify and illustrate our expressions by comparison to simulations of leaky-, quadratic- and exponential integrate-and-fire neurons.
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