Before revision: Electrical stimulation of neural populations is a key tool for understanding neural dynamics and developing treatments. To investigate the effects of external stimulation on a basic cortical motif, we analyse the dynamical properties of an efficient mean-field neural mass model of excitatory and inhibitory adaptive exponential integrate-and-fire (AdEx) neurons  and validate the results using detailed network simulations.
After revision: Electrical stimulation of neural populations is a key tool for understanding neural population dynamics and ultimately for developing clinical treatments. However, computational models of cortical networks of spiking neurons are inherently hard to simulate and analyze. We present an efficient mean-field neural mass model of excitatory and inhibitory adaptive exponential integrate-and-fire (AdEx) neurons and validate the results using detailed network simulations.