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J Neurophysiol 97: 2544-2552, 2007. First published December 6, 2006; doi:10.1152/jn.01000.2006
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INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY

Calculating Event-Triggered Average Synaptic Conductances From the Membrane Potential

Unité de Neurosciences Intégratives et Computationnelles, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Submitted 20 September 2006; accepted in final form 4 December 2006

The optimal patterns of synaptic conductances for spike generation in central neurons is a subject of considerable interest. Ideally such conductance time courses should be extracted from membrane potential (V_m) activity, but this is difficult because the nonlinear contribution of conductances to the V_m renders their estimation from the membrane equation extremely sensitive. We outline here a solution to this problem based on a discretization of the time axis. This procedure can extract the time course of excitatory and inhibitory conductances solely from the analysis of V_m activity. We test this method by calculating spike-triggered averages of synaptic conductances using numerical simulations of the integrate-and-fire model subject to colored conductance noise. The procedure was also tested successfully in biological cortical neurons using conductance noise injected with dynamic clamp. This method should allow the extraction of synaptic conductances from V_m recordings in vivo.

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