An elapsed time model for strongly coupled inhibitory and excitatory neural networks Cáceres Granados, María Josefa Perthame, Benoît Salort, Delphine Torres, Nicolás Structured equations Mathematical neuroscience Neural networks Periodic solutions Delay differential equations This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 754362. It has also re-ceived support from ANR, France ChaMaNe No: ANR19CE400024. The elapsed time model has been widely studied in the context of mathematical neuroscience with many open questions left. The model consists of an age-structured equation that describes the dynamics of interacting neurons structured by the elapsed time since their last discharge. Our interest lies in highly connected networks leading to strong nonlinearities where perturbation methods do not apply. To deal with this problem, we choose a particular case which can be reduced to delay equations. We prove a general convergence result to a stationary state in the inhibitory and the weakly excitatory cases. Moreover, we prove the existence of particular periodic solutions with jump discontinuities in the strongly excitatory case. Finally, we present some numerical simulations which ilustrate various behaviors, which are consistent with the theoretical results. 2021-10-13T10:38:29Z 2021-10-13T10:38:29Z 2021-03-19 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Published version: Nicolás Torres... [et al.]. An elapsed time model for strongly coupled inhibitory and excitatory neural networks, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Volume 425, 2021, 132977, ISSN 0167-2789, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2021.132977] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/70824 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/754362 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Elsevier