Path-Integral Methods for Analyzing the Effects of Fluctuations in Stochastic Hybrid Neural Networks

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• 作者：Paul C. Bressloff
• 关键词：Path ; integrals ; Large deviations ; Stochastic neural networks ; Stochastic hybrid systems
• 刊名：The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience (JMN)
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：5
• 期：1
• 全文大小：606 KB
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• 刊物主题：Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics; Neurosciences; Applications of Mathematics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：2190-8567

文摘

We consider applications of path-integral methods to the analysis of a stochastic hybrid model representing a network of synaptically coupled spiking neuronal populations. The state of each local population is described in terms of two stochastic variables, a continuous synaptic variable and a discrete activity variable. The synaptic variables evolve according to piecewise-deterministic dynamics describing, at the population level, synapses driven by spiking activity. The dynamical equations for the synaptic currents are only valid between jumps in spiking activity, and the latter are described by a jump Markov process whose transition rates depend on the synaptic variables. We assume a separation of time scales between fast spiking dynamics with time constant \(\tau_{a}\) and slower synaptic dynamics with time constant τ. This naturally introduces a small positive parameter \(\epsilon=\tau _{a}/\tau\) , which can be used to develop various asymptotic expansions of the corresponding path-integral representation of the stochastic dynamics. First, we derive a variational principle for maximum-likelihood paths of escape from a metastable state (large deviations in the small noise limit \(\epsilon\rightarrow0\) ). We then show how the path integral provides an efficient method for obtaining a diffusion approximation of the hybrid system for small ?. The resulting Langevin equation can be used to analyze the effects of fluctuations within the basin of attraction of a metastable state, that is, ignoring the effects of large deviations. We?illustrate this by using the Langevin approximation to analyze the effects of intrinsic noise on pattern formation in a spatially structured hybrid network. In particular, we show how noise enlarges the parameter regime over which patterns occur, in an analogous fashion to PDEs. Finally, we carry out a \(1/\epsilon\) -loop expansion of the path integral, and use this to derive corrections to voltage-based mean-field equations, analogous to the modified activity-based equations generated from a neural master equation.