1998/11/05 by Robert C. Elson, Allen I. Selverston, Ramon Huerta +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #chao-dyn #nlin.CD #q-bio
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.81.5692
4 pages, 6 figures, to be published in PRL
arxiv created 1998/11/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We report experimental studies of synchronization phenomena in a pair of biological neurons that interact through naturally occurring, electrical coupling. When these neurons generate irregular bursts of spikes, the natural coupling synchronizes slow oscillations of membrane potential, but not the fast spikes. By adding artificial electrical coupling we studied transitions between synchrony and asynchrony in both slow oscillations and fast spikes. We discuss the dynamics of bursting and synchronization in living neurons with distributed functional morphology.