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The Fast Spiking (FS) interneurons are coupled by both electrical and inhibitory synapses and experimental findings suggest that they operate as a clockwork affecting the processing of neural information. At present, it is not known which is the functional role of electrical synapses in a network of inhibitory interneurons. In our contribution, by using a single compartment biophysical model of an FS cell, we determine the parameter values leading to the emergence of synchronous regimes in a network of FS interneurons coupled by chemical and electrical synapses. We also compare our results with those recently obtained for a pair of coupled Integrate & Fire neural models [1].
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Di Garbo, A., Panarese, A., Barbi, M., Chillemi, S. (2005). The After-Hyperpolarization Amplitude and the Rise Time Constant of IPSC Affect the Synchronization Properties of Networks of Inhibitory Interneurons. In: Cabestany, J., Prieto, A., Sandoval, F. (eds) Computational Intelligence and Bioinspired Systems. IWANN 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11494669_15
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