Unveiling Stimulation Secrets of Electrical Excitation of Neural Tissue Using a Circuit Probability Theory

Hao Wang, Jiahui Wang, Xin Yuan Thow, Sanghoon Lee, Wendy Yen Xian Peh, Kian Ann Ng, Tianyiyi He, Nitish V. Thakor, Chengkuo Lee

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Abstract

Electrical excitation of neural tissue has wide applications, but how electrical stimulation interacts with neural tissue remains to be elucidated. Here, we propose a new theory, named the Circuit-Probability theory, to reveal how this physical interaction happen. The relation between the electrical stimulation input and the neural response can be theoretically calculated. We show that many empirical models, including strength-duration relationship and linear-non-linear-Poisson model, can be theoretically explained, derived, and amended using our theory. Furthermore, this theory can explain the complex non-linear and resonant phenomena and fit in vivo experiment data. In this letter, we validated an entirely new framework to study electrical stimulation on neural tissue, which is to simulate voltage waveforms using a parallel RLC circuit first, and then calculate the excitation probability stochastically.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number50
JournalFrontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Volume14
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 10 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • circuit-probability theory
  • computational modeling
  • electric nerve stimulation
  • inductor in neural circuit
  • mathematical model

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Neuroscience (miscellaneous)
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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