Optimal open-loop desynchronization of neural oscillator populations.

J Math Biol

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.

Published: July 2020

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an increasingly used medical treatment for various neurological disorders. While its mechanisms are not fully understood, experimental evidence suggests that through application of periodic electrical stimulation DBS may act to desynchronize pathologically synchronized populations of neurons resulting desirable changes to a larger brain circuit. However, the underlying mathematical mechanisms by which periodic stimulation can engender desynchronization in a coupled population of neurons is not well understood. In this work, a reduced phase-amplitude reduction framework is used to characterize the desynchronizing influence of periodic stimulation on a population of coupled oscillators. Subsequently, optimal control theory allows for the design of periodic, open-loop stimuli with the capacity to destabilize completely synchronized solutions while simultaneously stabilizing rotating block solutions. This framework exploits system nonlinearities in order to strategically modify unstable Floquet exponents. In the limit of weak neural coupling, it is shown that this method only requires information about the phase response curves of the individual neurons. The effects of noise and heterogeneity are also considered and numerical results are presented. This framework could ultimately be used to inform the design of more efficient deep brain stimulation waveforms for the treatment of neurological disease.

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