Wei WANG, Xi-Xian YAO
理论物理通讯. 1992, 18(3): 265-274.
The dynamical behaviour and the threshold phenomenon for the Bonhoeffer-van der Pol model of a nerve membrane stimulated by a constant and a periodic currents are investigated. For the constant current lo, there are two Hopf bifurcations at I0 = IL and I0 = IH, respectively. At I0 = IL an infinite long train of nerve impulses (threshold phenomenon) is found. For the periodic current, there are an ordinary period-dou bling to chaotic state, and a mode-locking state, as well as a reversed period-doubling from chaotic state to period-1 state. A phase diagram for the threshold phenomenon in the parameter space (I1 and ω, amplit ude and frequency) is obtained. In our discussion we conclude that the period-n oscillations correspond to the n-shaped impulse trains, and the chaotic oscillation corresponds to the infinite-shaped impulse trains. All of these impulses of the BVP model system code the information process of the nerve fibre in neural tissue.