“…However, the models are not all characterized by hysteretic flow functions. The most ubiquitous of these models, the class of integrate-fire (IF) models, can be heuristically derived from single-neuron dynamics of the form (1), in the limit when the nonlinear term in the dynamics is very weak, so that the potential U(x) is approximately parabolic, using stochastic linearization techniques [5,59]. In the most general case, the "leaky" integrator with threshold, one writes the dynamics in the form [65],…”