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The focus of this study is to explore the mechanisms during seizure behavior using a physiologically motivated by corticothalamic circuity. The model is based on the assumption that, the inhibitory projects from thalamus reticular nucleus (TRN) to specific relay nuclei (SRN) are mediated by GABAA and GABAB receptors which react different time scales in synaptic transmission. Secondly, we include the effects of slow modulation on the threshold current of TRN population that were found to generate bursting behavior. Our model can reproduce healthy and pathological dynamics including wake, spindle, deep sleep, and also seizure states. In addition, contour maps are used to explore the transition of different activity states. It is worthy to point out seizure duration is significantly affected by a time-varying delay as illustrated in our numerical simulation. Finally, a reduced model ignoring the cerebral cortex mass can also capture the feature of spike wave discharge as generated in the full network.
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Zhang, H., Zheng, Y., Su, J. et al. Seizures dynamics in a neural field model of cortical-thalamic circuitry. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 60, 974–984 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-016-9045-4
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