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Hi,

I need to change the value of a conductance (in the soma) as the simulation runs depending on the previous history of spiking, number of spikes and frequency, and synaptic inputs (synapses are defined as NetCom/NetStim). What would be the best way to do this? Any suggestions are welcomed.

Edit: would this be somewhere in the book or the website?
Edit2: Even simpler how do you change a global/local variable depending on t or v?

Thanks!

Elqui wrote:I need to change the value of a conductance (in the soma) as the simulation runs depending on the previous history of spiking, number of spikes and frequency, and synaptic inputs (synapses are defined as NetCom/NetStim). What would be the best way to do this?

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How to change parameters during a simulation

The event delivery system actually provides much more flexibility than those examples illustrate. For instance, you can use NetCon.record to call a proc every time there is a spike (or threshold crossing by any variable). The proc can do practically anything--perturb a parameter on each spike, or after every N spikes, or as some function of the interspike interval or average spike frequency, or launch a new event (with cvode.event) that causes something to happen after some delay. Just be sure to call fcurrent or cvode.re_init (as in the current pulse example) immediately after you change any parameter.

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