Equations  Information Maximization in Single Neurons  Somatic Adaptation Current

Dendritic Compartment

The input to the model neuron is a synaptic conductance in the dendritic compartment, consisting of both a signal and corrupting noise. A value for the signal component of the synaptic conductance is chosen every 200 milliseconds, at random, from a fixed probability distribution. Noise is added to the synaptic conductance in the form of independent, Gaussian fluctuations about the signal component. The resulting synaptic current is modulated by a set of three $\text{Ca}^{2+}$ and three $\text{K}^+$ voltage-dependent conductances. This current reaches the somatic compartment through a coupling conductance $G = 1.5 \; \text{mS}/\text{cm}^2$,where it drives the Hodgkin Huxley spiking mechanism described above .
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