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Topic: leaky-integrate-and-fire neuron model

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Neuronal degeneracy: an information-energy trade-off?

Philip Sommer, Alexander Bird, Peter Jedlicka, Jochen Triesch · Bernstein Conference 2024

Brains are energy-hungry and evolution has driven them to work in an energy-efficient manner. In food restriction experiments, Padamsey et al. [1] have recently observed that individual neurons trade off energy consumption and information transmission. Specifically, neurons appear to reduce energy consumption by changing their integration properties through the adaptation of membrane resistance, resting potential, and synaptic efficacies, which comes at the cost of reduced information transmission. Furthermore, they found that individual neurons assume a broad range of values of these paramete