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Non-renewal Markov models for spike-frequency adapting neural ensembles

We present a continuous Markov process model for spike-frequency adapting neural ensembles which synthesizes existing mean-adaptation approaches and inhomogeneous renewal theory. Unlike renewal theory, the Markov process can account for interspike interval correlations, and an expression for the first-order interspike interval correlation is derived. The Markov process in two dimensions is shown to accurately capture the firing-rate dynamics and interspike interval correlations of a spike-frequency adapting and relative refractory conductance-based integrate-and-fire neuron driven by Poisson spike trains. Using the Master equation for the proposed process, the assumptions of the standard mean-adaptation approach are clarified, and a mean+variance adaptation theory is derived which corrects the mean-adaptation firing-rate predictions for the biologically parameterized integrate-and-fire neuron model considered. An exact recipe for generating inhomogeneous realizations of the proposed Markov process is given.

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Muller, E., Schemmel, J. & Meier, K. Non-renewal Markov models for spike-frequency adapting neural ensembles. BMC Neurosci 8 (Suppl 2), S12 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-8-S2-S12

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