The paper studies the excitability properties of a generalized FitzHugh-Nagumo model. The model differs from the purely competitive FitzHugh-Nagumo model in that it accounts for the effect of cooperative gating variables such as activation of calcium currents. Excitability is explored by unfolding a pitchfork bifurcation that is shown to organize five different types of excitability. In additio...

This work explores four nonlinear classical models of neural oscillators, the HodgkinHuxley model, the Fitzhugh-Nagumo model, the Morris-Lecar model, and the Hindmarsh-Rose model. Nonlinear contraction theory is used to develop observers and perform synchronization analysis on these systems. Neural oscillation and signaling models are based on the biological function of the neuron, with behavio...

In this paper, we established traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear evolution equation. The sine-cosine method was used to construct travelling wave solutions of the Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation and Cahn-Allen equation. Graphical interpretation shows that obtained results include periodic and Soliton wave solutions. It is also shown that for α =−1, solutions of Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation coincide...

In this paper, we develop an accurate and ef£cient Haar wavelet method for well-known FitzHugh-Nagumo equation. The proposed scheme can be used to a wide class of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. The power of this manageable method is con£rmed. Moreover the use of Haar wavelets is found to be accurate, simple, fast, ¤exible, convenient, small computation costs and computationally attract...

The four-dimensional Hodgkin–Huxley equations are considered as the prototype for description of neural pulse propagation. Their mathematical complexity and sophistication prompted a simplified two-dimensional model, the FitzHugh–Nagumo equations, which display many of the former’s dynamical features. Numerical and mathematical analysis are employed to demonstrate that the FitzHugh–Nagumo equat...

Small lattices of N nearest-neighbor coupled excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo systems, with time-delayed coupling are studied and compared with systems of FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators with the same delayed coupling. Bifurcations of equilibria in an N=2 case are studied analytically, and it is then numerically confirmed that the same bifurcations are relevant for the dynamics in the case N>2. Bifurcatio...

In a modified FitzHugh—Nagumo model for excitable tissue a spiral wave is found to break up into an irregular spatial pattern. The main difference between our equations and the standard FitzHugh—Nagumo model is that we use two different time constants: one for the relative refractory period and another for the absolute refractory period. Breakup occurs when the relative refractory period is sho...

The FitzHugh-Nagumo equations have been used as a caricature of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations of neuron firing and to capture, qualitatively, the general properties of an excitable membrane. In this paper, we utilize a modified version of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations to model the spatial propagation of neuron firing; we assume that this propagation is (at least, partially) caused by the cross-d...

We study a singularly perturbed system of partial differential equations that models a one-dimensional array of coupled Chua’s circuits. The PDE system is a natural generalization to the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation. In part I of the paper, we show that similar to the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation, the system has periodic traveling wave solutions formed alternatively by fast and slow flows. First, asymp...