“…What characteristics of the circuit are being stabilized by these mechanisms that make this process homeostatic? There is experimental evidence for three balance parameters: firing rate homeostasis, subthreshold activity homeostasis, and synaptic weight homeostasis, and any of these three parameters, when incorporated into the appropriate theoretical model, may stabilize the network to prevent pathological neuronal dynamics or learning [1,3,4,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]. First, firing rate homeostasis was initially described with the first experimental evidence of synaptic scaling [5], and altering cellular [59] and network firing rate has consistently evoked a response of the induction of homeostatic mechanisms [5,7,11,12,29,60].…”