Creating an Autapse

[steelejp]

We are trying to create an axon that synapses back onto the soma or onto a dendrite and are having problems figuring out how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[ted]

Attach an ExpSyn or Exp2Syn to the section where the synapse is to be located, and drive it with a NetCon that monitors the appropriate location in the axon for spikes. Example:

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objref ampasyn, nc
dend ampasyn = new ExpSyn(0.5)
axon nc = new NetCon(&v(1), ampasyn)
nc.weight = 1e-3 // single event delivered to ampasyn will produce 0.001 uS peak conductance

These classes and their usage are documented in the Programmer's Reference--see http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/stati ... rence.html