Scaling law for the transient behavior of type-II neuron models.

We study the transient regime of type-II biophysical neuron models and determine the scaling behavior of relaxation times tau near but below the repetitive firing critical current, tau approximately or equal to C(I(c)-I)(-Delta). For both the Hodgkin-Huxley and Morris-Lecar models we find that the critical exponent is independent of the numerical integration time step and that both systems belong to the same universality class, with Delta=1/2. For appropriately chosen parameters, the FitzHugh-Nagumo model presents the same generic transient behavior, but the critical region is significantly smaller. We propose an experiment that may reveal nontrivial critical exponents in the squid axon.

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