Implementation of a Computational Model for Information Processing and Signaling from a Biological Neural Network of Neostriatum Nucleus

Recently, several mathematical models have been developed to study and explain the way information is processed in the brain. The models published account for a myriad of perspectives from single neuron segments to neural networks, and lately, with the use of supercomputing facilities, to the study of whole environments of nuclei interacting for massive stimuli and processing. Some of the most complex neural structures -and also most studied- are basal ganglia nuclei in the brain; amongst which we can find the Neostriatunn. Currently, just a few papers about high scale biological-based computational modeling of this region have been published. It has been demonstrated that the Basal Ganglia region contains functions related to learning and decision making based on rules of the action-selection type, which are of particular interest for the machine autonomous-learning field. This knowledge could be clearly transferred between areas of research. The present work proposes a model of information processing, by integrating knowledge generated from widely accepted experiments in both morphology and biophysics, through integrating theories such as the compartmental electrical model, the Rail's cable equation, and the Hodking-Huxley particle potential regulations, among others. Additionally, the leaky integrator framework is incorporated in an adapted function. This was accomplished through a computational environment prepared for high scale neural simulation which delivers data output equivalent to that from the original model, and that can not only be analyzed as a Bayesian problem, but also successfully compared to the biological specimen.