Reading While Writing: Baseline Information Requirements for Molecular Neural Interfaces
Abstract
Molecular neural interfaces that deliver and sense the same neurotransmitter must estimate endogenous release in the presence of their own chemical input. We study two exchanging regions with shared saturable uptake and concentration change measurements. Known delivery and exchange permit identification of apparent uptake at the driven region, but an unknown resting concentration difference leaves the source region's incremental uptake uncertain. We characterize all admissible source histories consistent with both ideal records and show how delivery and baseline information affect release classification. A dopamine-inspired example produces identical ideal concentration-change records for mean release-rate changes of -8.99 and +1.31 nanomolar per second. Stronger delivery changes whether all compatible sources imply suppression, with the true source held fixed. Under a Gaussian observation model, we bound discrimination based on chemical fluctuations. A baseline reference with an assumed standard deviation of 3.3 nanomolar reduces root-mean-square error from 10.41 to 1.21 nanomolar per second compared with an incorrect fixed baseline under exact gain calibration. Classification errors remain substantial with weak excitation, gain errors or responses near the category boundaries.
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BibTeX
@misc{ni2026reading,
title = {{Reading While Writing: Baseline Information Requirements for Molecular Neural Interfaces}},
author = {Hongbin Ni and Ozgur B. Akan},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.00763},
eprint = {2610.00763},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00763},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Reading While Writing: Baseline Information Requirements for Molecular Neural Interfaces
AU - Hongbin Ni
AU - Ozgur B. Akan
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.00763
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00763
AB - Molecular neural interfaces that deliver and sense the same neurotransmitter must estimate endogenous release in the presence of their own chemical input. We study two exchanging regions with shared saturable uptake and concentration change measurements. Known delivery and exchange permit identification of apparent uptake at the driven region, but an unknown resting concentration difference leaves the source region's incremental uptake uncertain. We characterize all admissible source histories consistent with both ideal records and show how delivery and baseline information affect release classification. A dopamine-inspired example produces identical ideal concentration-change records for mean release-rate changes of -8.99 and +1.31 nanomolar per second. Stronger delivery changes whether all compatible sources imply suppression, with the true source held fixed. Under a Gaussian observation model, we bound discrimination based on chemical fluctuations. A baseline reference with an assumed standard deviation of 3.3 nanomolar reduces root-mean-square error from 10.41 to 1.21 nanomolar per second compared with an incorrect fixed baseline under exact gain calibration. Classification errors remain substantial with weak excitation, gain errors or responses near the category boundaries.
ER -