On the origin of lognormal network synchrony in CA1

Hippocampus
Felix WeissenbergerAngelika Steger

Abstract

The sharp wave ripple complex in rodent hippocampus is associated with a network burst in CA3 (NB) that triggers a synchronous event in the CA1 population (SE). The number of CA1 pyramidal cells participating in a SE has been observed to follow a lognormal distribution. However, the origin of this skewed and heavy-tailed distribution of population synchrony in CA1 remains unknown. Because the size of SEs is likely to originate from the size of the NBs and the underlying neural circuitry, we model the CA3-CA1 circuit to study the underlying mechanisms and their functional implications. We show analytically that if the size of a NB in CA3 is distributed according to a normal distribution, then the size of the resulting SE in CA1 follows a lognormal distribution. Our model predicts the distribution of the NB size in CA3, which remains to be tested experimentally. Moreover, we show that a putative lognormal NB size distribution leads to an extremely heavy-tailed SE size distribution in CA1, contradicting experimental evidence. In conclusion, our model provides general insight on the origin of lognormally distributed network synchrony as a consequence of synchronous synaptic transmission of normally distributed input events.

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