Hi All, I am using the aeif_cond_alpha neuron model in NEST and the synaptic dynamics are calculated together with the membrane potential of the neuron model. I understand that the synapse uses an alpha function. However, it is unclear what the actual equation is for calculating the synaptic conductance. After looking through the documentation and C++ code it was still unclear to me, however, I found this journal article which defines an equation for the synaptic conductance (equation 4), https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057134. Is this the correct equation? Thanks for any help!
Best, Beck
Hi Beck,
Indeed, that equation looks about right. You can also check some of the NESTML models for some hopefully more readable (compared to C++) versions of the equations. See for instance: https://github.com/nest/nestml/blob/master/models/neurons/iaf_psc_alpha.nest...
Kind regards, Charl
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, at 18:19, bstrohmer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All, I am using the aeif_cond_alpha neuron model in NEST and the synaptic dynamics are calculated together with the membrane potential of the neuron model. I understand that the synapse uses an alpha function. However, it is unclear what the actual equation is for calculating the synaptic conductance. After looking through the documentation and C++ code it was still unclear to me, however, I found this journal article which defines an equation for the synaptic conductance (equation 4), https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057134. Is this the correct equation? Thanks for any help!
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