Ağaoğlu, Şükrüye Nihal | Özer, Mahmut | Çalım, Ali | Uzuntarla, Muhammet

Proceedings | 2017 | 2017 25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2017

In this paper, the phenomena of Vibrational Resonance is investigated in an excitable system which consists of FitzHugh-Nagumo neurons with electrical coupling. Weak signal detection performance of excitable system is examined in scale-free network (unweighted or weighted) topology. The simulation results show that; weighting the scale-free network, average connectivity degree, amplitude and frequency of weak signal play an active role to determine the data carrying performance of neurons based on Vibrational Resonance. It is determined that, the amount of required energy for creating resonance peaks of excitable system is decreased . . . significantly by choosing the correct value of weight control parameter in a weighted network especially. © 2017 IEEE Daha fazlası Daha az

Çalım, Ali | Özer, Mahmut | Uzuntarla, Muhammet

Proceedings | 2017 | 2017 25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2017

Nowadays, neurodegenerative diseases which affect human life quite negatively with motor, cognitive and psychiatric disorders are becoming widespread. One of the most common neurodegenerative disorder is Parkinson's disease. Recent electrophysiological experiments have shown that Basal Ganglia, a special region in the midbrain, is related to Parkinsonism. Beta frequency oscillations, which are important symptoms of Parkinson's disease, emerge intensively in Globus Pallidus and Subtalamus nuclei. In this study, anatomical connections of Globus Pallidus and Subtalamus are constructed computationally, and the cellular properties that g . . .ive rise to emergence of beta oscillations are investigated. © 2017 IEEE Daha fazlası Daha az

Çalım, Ali | Özer, Mahmut | Uzuntarla, Muhammet

Proceedings | 2018 | 26th IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2018 , pp.1 - 4

Experimental and theoretical studies in recent years suggest that the first spike latency is an effective information carrier and contains more neural information than other spikes. Noise Delayed Decay (NDD) phenomenon emerges when the first spike latency of the neuron exposed to the periodic driving is maximum at a certain noise intensity interval. In this study, the latency dynamics of a single Hodgkin-Huxley neuron is investigated under periodic driving, background activity through dynamic synapses, and channel noise. The system response with first spike latency is investigated as a function of the presynaptic firing rate, the pa . . .rameter with an appropriate biophysical reality to control the level of activity in the nervous system. First, NDD behavior is investigated under suprathreshold stimulation in the presence of synapses at different levels of depression and channel noise. It is then desired to observe the NDD phenomenon under subthreshold stimulation with the same strategy. Our results have shown that the background activity occurring in the presence of dynamic synapses and the channel noise are significant system dynamics in observing the NDD behavior. © 2018 IEEE Daha fazlası Daha az

Çalım, Ali | Özer, Mahmut | Uzuntarla, Muhammet

Proceedings | 2017 | 2017 Medical Technologies National Conference, TIPTEKNO 20172017-January , pp.1 - 4

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affect human life quite negatively with motor, cognitive and psychiatric way. Recent electrophysiological experiments have shown that Basal Ganglia, spaced in the midbrain, can lead to Parkinsonism. Beta frequency oscillations and irregular burstings are most important symptoms of Parkinson's disease. They appear in Globus Pallidus and Subtalamus nuclei during the disease. In this study, anatomical connection features that may give rise to emergence of burstings are investigated, simulating Globus Pallidus and Subtalamus nuclei numerically. © 2017 IEEE.

Çalım, Ali | Özer, Mahmut | Uzuntarla, Muhammet

Proceedings | 2017 | 2017 Medical Technologies National Conference, TIPTEKNO 20172017-January , pp.1 - 4

In this study, vibrational resonance phenomena is investigated in excitable neuron population. Synapses where complex electrochemical events take place in is modelled dynamically, not statically by contrast with early studies. Effect of short-Term synaptic depression which is a prominent feature of dynamic synapses on vibrational resonance is studied. The results of numerical simulations that silencing effect of shortterm depression emerges in the cases where static synapses lead to vibrational resonance. © 2017 IEEE.

Çilli, Salih | Çalım, Ali | Uzuntarla, Muhammet

Proceedings | 2019 | TIPTEKNO 2019 - Tip Teknolojileri Kongresi , pp.1 - 4

Vital functions in living organisms occur through changes in electrical activity. These activities consist of brain rhythms with different frequencies that exhibit oscillatory behavior and can be monitored by local field potentials or EEG recordings. The synchronization of neural activity underlies the emergence of these rhythmic waves, which are of great importance in the nervous system. In this study, the effects of changes in intrinsic mechanisms and intercellular communication, that are constituting neural activity, on the synchronization of neuron pair which is composed of two nerve cells and connected with different types of s . . .ynaptic junction were investigated in a biologically meaningful way. The obtained results showed that the excitability, synaptic and ionic conductivity levels are crucial for neurons to synchronize. It has also been found that the noise caused by the stochastic nature of the ion channels is an auxiliary biological component to achieve synchronization. © 2019 IEEE Daha fazlası Daha az

İleri, Uğur | Çalım, Ali | Uzuntarla, Muhammet | Özer, Mahmut

Proceedings | 2015 | 2015 23rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2015 - Proceedings , pp.1333 - 1336

In this study, the biophysical factors underlying the irregular spike patterns produced by neurons in the neocortex, whose cause and function are not fully understood yet, are investigated. In the experimental studies in the literature, it has been proposed that neocortical neurons are subject to high background activity. Thereby, the postsynaptic cortical neuron, used in the study, is modeled as a single-compartment neuron which receives random inputs from a large number of excitatory presynaptic neurons. Furthermore, synaptic transmission lines in the model are designed to include the short-term synaptic depression mechanism. In o . . .rder to examine the regularity of spike trains in postsynaptic neuron having fix and adaptive threshold, the coefficient of variation of interspikes intervals are computed. The obtained results show that short-term synaptic depression and adaptive threshold mechanisms might be candidate mechanisms explaining the irregular firings in cortical neurons. © 2015 IEEE Daha fazlası Daha az

Çalım, Ali | Özer, Mahmut | Uzuntarla, Muhammet

Proceedings | 2018 | 26th IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2018 , pp.1 - 4

In this study, effects of the heterogeneity in neuronal networks and subthreshold signal features on subthreshold signal detection in the nervous system is investigated. As most of studies in the literature investigate the subject by considering neuron populations as homogenous systems, in this study, the populations are considered as heterogeneous in terms of neuronal excitability. The information processing performance of the neuron populations is systematically studied by using mathematical equations for modeling the dynamics of the neurons, which are basic units of the system. As a result of the simulations performed, it is seen . . . that the sub-threshold signal frequency and the heterogeneity in the excitability are important system parameters for optimizing the information encoding performance. It is shown that the population encoding performance is maximized depending on the subthreshold signal frequency at different optimum levels of heterogeneity in the population. © 2018 IEEE Daha fazlası Daha az

Ağaoğlu, Şükrüye Nihal | Çalım, Ali | Özer, Mahmut | Uzuntarla, Muhammet

Proceedings | 2017 | 2016 Medical Technologies National Conference, TIPTEKNO 2016 , pp.1 - 4

In this study, vibrational resonance phenomena is investigated for topologies of scale-free network in excitable neural system. Effect of heterogeneity which emerges from weightening synaptic conductivity in neural network on performance of weak signal detection is studied. FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron model with electrical coupling is used as excitable system. In the result of numerical simulations; it is seen that the state of the scale-free network being unweighted or weighted, synaptic conductivity and average connectivity degree play a crucial role for determining performance of information coding of neuron population based on vibrat . . .ional resonance. © 2016 IEEE Daha fazlası Daha az

Çalım, Ali | Ağaoğlu, Şükriye Nihal | Uzuntarla, Muhammet

Proceedings | 2017 | 2017 25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2017 , pp.1 - 4

Vital functions which take place in the brain are accomplished through synchronized neural activities between interconnected neuronal populations. In healthy and unhealthy nerve system, rhythms in different frequencies can be recognized as they are responsible for neural synchronization. Despite this, in the case of global synchronization where oscillation power is the maximum, as observed in epileptic seizures, neural activity can terminate. In this study, effects of neural network characteristics synchronization emerges from on activity termination are computationally investigated. Stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley (H-H) equations are use . . .d in the simulations. The results show that synchronization increases when neurons have high synaptic conductance and due to this, strong synaptic current neurons exposed to terminates the firings. © 2017 IEEE Daha fazlası Daha az

Çalım, Ali | Uzuntarla, Muhammet | Özer, Mahmut

Proceedings | 2014 | 2014 22nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2014 - Proceedings , pp.1991 - 1994

In this study, the information coding issue in the nervous system is investigated. By using mathematical equations for modeling the dynamics of the basic units of the system, which are neurons, the information processing performance of the neuron populations is systematically studied. As most of studies in the literature investigate the subject by considering neuron populations as homogenous systems, in this study, the populations are considered as heterogeneous in terms of neuronal excitability. The obtained results demonstrate that considering the heterogeneity of the populations provides significant advantages for the processing . . .of neuronal information. It is shown that the neuron population exhibits maximal performance (resonance) for two different levels of network heterogeneity. Moreover, the influences of other biological parameters, forming the whole system, on this double-resonance phenomenon are investigated. © 2014 IEEE Daha fazlası Daha az

Çalım, Ali | İleri, Uğur | Uzuntarla, Muhammet | Özer, Mahmut

Proceedings | 2015 | 2015 23rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2015 - Proceedings , pp.2262 - 2265

In this study, the regularity of neuronal firing is investigated. We perform independent simulations to find out effects of synaptic transmission reliability in the background activity on the firing regularity of neurons, using Integrate and Fire (IF) neuron model. The obtained results demonstrate that synaptic transmission reliability changes firing regularity influencing background activity intensity. Moreover, it is investigated how the excitatory and inhibitory synaptic connections effect the regularity of neuronal firing. © 2015 IEEE.