Strong inhibitory input to neurons, which occurs in balanced states of neural networks, increases synaptic current fluctuations. This has led to the assumption that inhibition contributes to the high spike-firing irregularity observed in vivo. We used single compartment neuronal models with time-correlated (due to synaptic filtering) and state-dependent (due to reversal potentials) input to demonstrate that inhibitory input acts to decrease membrane potential fluctuations, a result that cannot be achieved with simplified neural input models. To clarify the effects on spike-firing regularity, we used models with different spike-firing adaptation mechanisms, and we observed that the addition of inhibition increased firing regularity in models with dynamic firing thresholds and decreased firing regularity if spike-firing adaptation was implemented through ionic currents or not at all. This fluctuation-stabilization mechanism provides an alternative perspective on the importance of strong inhibitory inputs observed in balanced states of neural networks, and it highlights the key roles of biologically plausible inputs and specific adaptation mechanisms in neuronal modeling.

Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences 14220 Prague Czech Republic

Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences 14220 Prague Czech Republic; Charles University 1st Medical Faculty 12108 Prague Czech Republic; and Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences INRAE 78026 Versailles France

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