Complex electrical activities in cardiac tissue can set up time-varying electromagnetic field. Magnetic flux is introduced into the Fitzhugh-Nagumo model to describe the effect of electromagnetic induction, and then memristor is used to realize the feedback of magnetic flux on the membrane potential in cardiac tissue. It is found that a spiral wave can be triggered and developed by setting specific initials in the media, that is to say, the media still support the survival of standing spiral waves under electromagnetic induction. Furthermore, electromagnetic radiation is considered on this model as external stimuli, it is found that spiral waves encounter breakup and turbulent electrical activities are observed, and it can give guidance to understand the occurrence of sudden heart disorder subjected to heavily electromagnetic radiation.Accompanied by rhythmical relaxation of heart, complex electrophysiological activities 1-9 can be detected in cardiac tissue. Spatial pattern 10-14 can be reproduced and observed by collecting the sampled membrane potentials in different areas of cardiac tissue, and many theoretical models [15][16][17][18][19][20][21] have been proposed to investigate the emergence, phase transition and selection of these spatial patterns. It is believed that local heart ischemia can generate "defects" which can block the propagation of target wave emitted from the sinoatrial node 22 ; as a result, self-sustained spiral wave can be induced to block the normal wave propagation. Furthermore, the instability and breakup of spiral wave [23][24][25] in cardiac tissue and can cause possible heart disease. Therefore, many schemes [26][27][28][29][30][31] have been proposed to remove and suppress the spiral wave in cardiac tissue and chemical media. As mentioned in ref. 29, the external forcing can change the excitability of the media thus the spiral wave can be suppressed in a possible way. On the other hand, external field has also been confirmed to be effective in suppressing spiral wave and turbulence, and the possible mechanism can be associated with depolarization effect. The authors in refs 30 and 31 proposed a scheme of phase compression to suppress the spiral wave in excitable and oscillatory media, particularly, the control mechanism is confirmed as a class of intermittent feedback scheme. Indeed, it is more difficult to suppress and control the pinned spiral wave than the meandering spiral wave because these pinned spiral waves are often attracted to a local area such as heterogeneity. As a result, Zhang and Chen et al. [32][33][34][35] proposed some effective schemes to suppress the pinned spiral wave, and the tip dynamics of spiral wave 36 has also been discussed.Indeed, these cardiac tissue models used to emphasize the effect of ion currents across trans-membrane and the membrane potential is calculated, while the effect of electromagnetic induction is left out. As mentioned in refs 37 and 38, complex electrophysiological activities can induce time-varying electromagnetic field and thus the ...

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Based on an improved neuronal model, in which the effect of magnetic flux is considered during the fluctuation and change of ion concentration in cells, the transition of synchronization is investigated by imposing external electromagnetic radiation on the coupled neurons, and networks, respectively. It is found that the synchronization degree depends on the coupling intensity and the intensity of external electromagnetic radiation. Indeed, appropriate intensity of electromagnetic radiation could be effective to realize intermittent synchronization, while stronger intensity of electromagnetic radiation can induce disorder of coupled neurons and network. Neurons show rhythm synchronization in the electrical activities by increasing the coupling intensity under electromagnetic radiation, and spatial patterns can be formed in the network under smaller factor of synchronization.

Neurons can give appropriate response to external electrical stimuli and the modes in electrical activities can be carefully selected. Most of the neuron models mainly emphasize on the ion channel currents embedded into the membrane and the properties in electrical activities can be produced in the theoretical models. Indeed, some physical effect should be considered during the model setting for neuronal activities. In fact, induced current and the electrical field will cause the membrane potential to change and an exchange of charged ions during the fluctuation of ion concentration in cell. As a result, the effect of electromagnetic induction should be seriously considered. In this paper, magnetic flux is proposed to describe the effect of electromagnetic field, and the memristor is used to realize coupling on membrane by inputting induced current based on consensus of physical unit. Noise is also considered to detect the dynamical response in electrical activities and stochastic resonance, it is found that multiple modes can be selected in the electrical activities and it could be associated with memory effect and self-adaption in neurons.