A unified physiological framework of transitions between seizures, status epilepticus and depolarization block at the single neuron level
Résumé
The majority of seizures recorded in humans and experimental animal models can be described by a generic phenomenological mathematical model, The Epileptor. In this model, seizure-like events (SLEs) are driven by a slow variable and occur via saddle node (SN) and homoclinic bifurcations at seizure onset and offset, respectively. Here we investigated SLEs at the single cell level using a biophysically relevant neuron model including a slow/fast system of four equations. The two equations for the slow subsystem describe ion concentration variations and the two equations of the fast subsystem delineate the electrophysiological activities of the neuron. Using extracellular K + as a slow variable, we report that SLEs with SN/homoclinic bifurcations can readily occur at the single cell level when extracellular K + reaches a critical value. In patients and experimental models, seizures can also evolve into status epilepticus (SE) and depolarization block (DB), activities which are also parts of the dynamic repertoire of the Epileptor. Increasing extracellular concentration of K + in the model to values found during experimental SE and DB, we show that SE-like events and DB can also occur at the single cell level. Thus, seizures, SE and DB, which have been first identified as network events, can exist in a unified framework of a biophysical model at the single neuron level and exhibit similar dynamics as observed in the Epileptor.
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