Fire Patterns of HH Neuron under External Sinusoidal ELF Stimulus

Neuron as the main information carrier in neural systems is able to generate diverse fire trains in response to different stimuli. In this paper, the stimulus frequency is taken as the bifurcation parameter, and the ISI is considered to be one of the state variables. Via numerical simulation, we mainly concentrate on investigating the kinds of fire patterns that the HH neuron model displays such as period-n, bursting, and modulation fire patterns, etc. under the effect of external sinusoidal ELF electric field, and the relation between the ISI sequences and the external stimulus just like synchronization. In addition, an explanation is put forwards from the electrophysiology point of view to try to interpret why neurons generate so many different kinds of ISI sequences.