The effect of inhibition on the existence of traveling wave solutions for a neural field model of human seizure termination

In this paper we study the influence of inhibition on an activity-based neural field model consisting of an excitatory population with a linear adaptation term that directly regulates the activity of the excitatory population. Such a model has been used to replicate traveling wave data as observed in high density local field potential recordings (González-Ramírez et al. PLoS Computational Biology, 11(2), e1004065, 2015). In this work, we show that by adding an inhibitory population to this model we can still replicate wave properties as observed in human clinical data preceding seizure termination, but the parameter range over which such waves exist becomes more restricted. This restriction depends on the strength of the inhibition and the timescale at which the inhibition acts. In particular, if inhibition acts on a slower timescale relative to excitation then it is possible to still replicate traveling wave patterns as observed in the clinical data even with a relatively strong effect of inhibition. However, if inhibition acts on the same timescale as the excitation, or faster, then traveling wave patterns with the desired characteristics cease to exist when the inhibition becomes sufficiently strong.

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