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Diesburg DA, Wessel JR, Jones SR. Biophysical Modeling of Frontocentral ERP Generation Links Circuit-Level Mechanisms of Action-Stopping to a Behavioral Race Model. J Neurosci 2024; 44:e2016232024. [PMID: 38561227 PMCID: PMC11097283 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2016-23.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2024] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Human frontocentral event-related potentials (FC-ERPs) are ubiquitous neural correlates of cognition and control, but their generating multiscale mechanisms remain mostly unknown. We used the Human Neocortical Neurosolver's biophysical model of a canonical neocortical circuit under exogenous thalamic and cortical drive to simulate the cell and circuit mechanisms underpinning the P2, N2, and P3 features of the FC-ERP observed after Stop-Signals in the Stop-Signal task (SST; N = 234 humans, 137 female). We demonstrate that a sequence of simulated external thalamocortical and corticocortical drives can produce the FC-ERP, similar to what has been shown for primary sensory cortices. We used this model of the FC-ERP to examine likely circuit-mechanisms underlying FC-ERP features that distinguish between successful and failed action-stopping. We also tested their adherence to the predictions of the horse-race model of the SST, with specific hypotheses motivated by theoretical links between the P3 and Stop process. These simulations revealed that a difference in P3 onset between successful and failed Stops is most likely due to a later arrival of thalamocortical drive in failed Stops, rather than, for example, a difference in the effective strength of the input. In contrast, the same model predicted that early thalamocortical drives underpinning the P2 and N2 differed in both strength and timing across stopping accuracy conditions. Overall, this model generates novel testable predictions of the thalamocortical dynamics underlying FC-ERP generation during action-stopping. Moreover, it provides a detailed cellular and circuit-level interpretation that supports links between these macroscale signatures and predictions of the behavioral race model.
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- Darcy A Diesburg
- Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Department of Neurology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
- Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island 02908
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Cattani A, Arnold DB, McCarthy M, Kopell N. Basolateral amygdala oscillations enable fear learning in a biophysical model. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.04.28.538604. [PMID: 37163011 PMCID: PMC10168360 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.28.538604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The basolateral amygdala (BLA) is a key site where fear learning takes place through synaptic plasticity. Rodent research shows prominent low theta (~3-6 Hz), high theta (~6-12 Hz), and gamma (>30 Hz) rhythms in the BLA local field potential recordings. However, it is not understood what role these rhythms play in supporting the plasticity. Here, we create a biophysically detailed model of the BLA circuit to show that several classes of interneurons (PV, SOM, and VIP) in the BLA can be critically involved in producing the rhythms; these rhythms promote the formation of a dedicated fear circuit shaped through rhythmic gating of spike-timing-dependent plasticity. Each class of interneurons is necessary for the plasticity. We find that the low theta rhythm is a biomarker of successful fear conditioning. Finally, we discuss how the peptide released by the VIP cell may alter the dynamics of plasticity to support the necessary fine timing.
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- Anna Cattani
- Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Sharma D, Lupkin SM, McGinty VB. Orbitofrontal high-gamma reflects spike-dissociable value and decision mechanisms. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.04.02.587758. [PMID: 38617349 PMCID: PMC11014579 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.02.587758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) plays a crucial role in value-based decision-making. While previous research has focused on spiking activity in OFC neurons, the role of OFC local field potentials (LFPs) in decision-making remains unclear. LFPs are important because they can reflect synaptic and subthreshold activity not directly coupled to spiking, and because they are potential targets for less invasive forms of brain-machine interface (BMI). We recorded LFPs and spiking activity using multi-channel vertical probes while monkeys performed a two-option value-based decision-making task. We compared the value- and decision-coding properties of high-gamma range LFPs (HG, 50-150 Hz) to the coding properties of spiking multi-unit activity (MUA) recorded concurrently on the same electrodes. Results show that HG and MUA both represent the values of decision targets, and that their representations have similar temporal profiles in a trial. However, we also identified value-coding properties of HG that were dissociable from the concurrently-measured MUA. On average across channels, HG amplitude increased monotonically with value, whereas the average value encoding in MUA was net neutral. HG also encoded a signal consistent with a comparison between the values of the two targets, a signal which was much weaker in MUA. In individual channels, HG was better able to predict choice outcomes than MUA; however, when simultaneously recorded channels were combined in population-based decoder, MUA provided more accurate predictions than HG. Interestingly, HG value representations were accentuated in channels in or near shallow cortical layers, suggesting a dissociation between neuronal sources of HG and MUA. In summary, we find that HG signals are dissociable from MUA with respect to cognitive variables encoded in prefrontal cortex, evident in the monotonic encoding of value, stronger encoding of value comparisons, and more accurate predictions about behavior. High-frequency LFPs may therefore be a viable - or even preferable - target for BMIs to assist cognitive function, opening the possibility for less invasive access to mental contents that would otherwise be observable only with spike-based measures.
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- Dixit Sharma
- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University – Newark
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Rutgers University – Newark
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University – Newark
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Rutgers University – Newark
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University – Newark
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Brake N, Duc F, Rokos A, Arseneau F, Shahiri S, Khadra A, Plourde G. A neurophysiological basis for aperiodic EEG and the background spectral trend. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1514. [PMID: 38374047 PMCID: PMC10876973 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45922-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024] Open
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Electroencephalograms (EEGs) display a mixture of rhythmic and broadband fluctuations, the latter manifesting as an apparent 1/f spectral trend. While network oscillations are known to generate rhythmic EEG, the neural basis of broadband EEG remains unexplained. Here, we use biophysical modelling to show that aperiodic neural activity can generate detectable scalp potentials and shape broadband EEG features, but that these aperiodic signals do not significantly perturb brain rhythm quantification. Further model analysis demonstrated that rhythmic EEG signals are profoundly corrupted by shifts in synapse properties. To examine this scenario, we recorded EEGs of human subjects being administered propofol, a general anesthetic and GABA receptor agonist. Drug administration caused broadband EEG changes that quantitatively matched propofol's known effects on GABA receptors. We used our model to correct for these confounding broadband changes, which revealed that delta power, uniquely, increased within seconds of individuals losing consciousness. Altogether, this work details how EEG signals are shaped by neurophysiological factors other than brain rhythms and elucidates how these signals can undermine traditional EEG interpretation.
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- Niklas Brake
- Quantiative Life Sciences PhD Program, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesia, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesia, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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- Department of Anesthesia, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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Rimehaug AE, Dale AM, Arkhipov A, Einevoll GT. Uncovering population contributions to the extracellular potential in the mouse visual system using Laminar Population Analysis. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.01.15.575805. [PMID: 38293236 PMCID: PMC10827114 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.15.575805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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The local field potential (LFP), the low-frequency part of the extracellular potential, reflects transmembrane currents in the vicinity of the recording electrode. Thought mainly to stem from currents caused by synaptic input, it provides information about neural activity complementary to that of spikes, the output of neurons. However, the many neural sources contributing to the LFP, and likewise the derived current source density (CSD), can often make it challenging to interpret. Efforts to improve its interpretability have included the application of statistical decomposition tools like principal component analysis (PCA) and independent component analysis (ICA) to disentangle the contributions from different neural sources. However, their underlying assumptions of, respectively, orthogonality and statistical independence are not always valid for the various processes or pathways generating LFP. Here, we expand upon and validate a decomposition algorithm named Laminar Population Analysis (LPA), which is based on physiological rather than statistical assumptions. LPA utilizes the multiunit activity (MUA) and LFP jointly to uncover the contributions of different populations to the LFP. To perform the validation of LPA, we used data simulated with the large-scale, biophysically detailed model of mouse V1 developed by the Allen Institute. We find that LPA can identify laminar positions within V1 and the temporal profiles of laminar population firing rates from the MUA. We also find that LPA can estimate the salient current sinks and sources generated by feedforward input from the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), recurrent activity in V1, and feedback input from the lateromedial (LM) area of visual cortex. LPA identifies and distinguishes these contributions with a greater accuracy than the alternative statistical decomposition methods, PCA and ICA. Lastly, we also demonstrate the application of LPA on experimentally recorded MUA and LFP from 24 animals in the publicly available Visual Coding dataset. Our results suggest that LPA can be used both as a method to estimate positions of laminar populations and to uncover salient features in LFP/CSD contributions from different populations.
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
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- Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Nasretdinov A, Vinokurova D, Lemale CL, Burkhanova-Zakirova G, Chernova K, Makarova J, Herreras O, Dreier JP, Khazipov R. Diversity of cortical activity changes beyond depression during Spreading Depolarizations. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7729. [PMID: 38007508 PMCID: PMC10676372 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43509-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/27/2023] Open
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Spreading depolarizations (SDs) are classically thought to be associated with spreading depression of cortical activity. Here, we found that SDs in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage produce variable, ranging from depression to booming, changes in electrocorticographic activity, especially in the delta frequency band. In rats, depression of activity was characteristic of high-potassium-induced full SDs, whereas partial superficial SDs caused either little change or a boom of activity at the cortical vertex, supported by volume conduction of signals from spared delta generators in the deep cortical layers. Partial SDs also caused moderate neuronal depolarization and sustained excitation, organized in gamma oscillations in a narrow sub-SD zone. Thus, our study challenges the concept of homology between spreading depolarization and spreading depression by showing that SDs produce variable, from depression to booming, changes in activity at the cortical surface and in different cortical layers depending on the depth of SD penetration.
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- Azat Nasretdinov
- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008, Russia
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008, Russia
- INMED-INSERM, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, 13273, France
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- Centre for Stroke Research Berlin, Department of Experimental Neurology and Department of Neurology, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, D-10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008, Russia
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Stroke Research Berlin, Department of Experimental Neurology and Department of Neurology, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, D-10117, Berlin, Germany
- Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, D-10115, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Centre for Neurosciences Berlin, D-10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008, Russia.
- INMED-INSERM, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, 13273, France.
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Diesburg DA, Wessel JR, Jones SR. Biophysical modeling of frontocentral ERP generation links circuit-level mechanisms of action-stopping to a behavioral race model. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.10.25.564020. [PMID: 37961333 PMCID: PMC10634895 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.25.564020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Human frontocentral event-related potentials (FC-ERPs) are ubiquitous neural correlates of cognition and control, but their generating multiscale mechanisms remain mostly unknown. We used the Human Neocortical Neurosolver(HNN)'s biophysical model of a canonical neocortical circuit under exogenous thalamic and cortical drive to simulate the cell and circuit mechanisms underpinning the P2, N2, and P3 features of the FC-ERP observed after Stop-Signals in the Stop-Signal task (SST). We demonstrate that a sequence of simulated external thalamocortical and cortico-cortical drives can produce the FC-ERP, similar to what has been shown for primary sensory cortices. We used this model of the FC-ERP to examine likely circuit-mechanisms underlying FC-ERP features that distinguish between successful and failed action-stopping. We also tested their adherence to the predictions of the horse-race model of the SST, with specific hypotheses motivated by theoretical links between the P3 and Stop process. These simulations revealed that a difference in P3 onset between successful and failed Stops is most likely due to a later arrival of thalamocortical drive in failed Stops, rather than, for example, a difference in effective strength of the input. In contrast, the same model predicted that early thalamocortical drives underpinning the P2 and N2 differed in both strength and timing across stopping accuracy conditions. Overall, this model generates novel testable predictions of the thalamocortical dynamics underlying FC-ERP generation during action-stopping. Moreover, it provides a detailed cellular and circuit-level interpretation that supports links between these macroscale signatures and predictions of the behavioral race model.
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence VA Medical Center, RI, USA
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Feliciano-Ramos PA, Galazo M, Penagos H, Wilson M. Hippocampal memory reactivation during sleep is correlated with specific cortical states of the retrosplenial and prefrontal cortices. Learn Mem 2023; 30:221-236. [PMID: 37758288 PMCID: PMC10547389 DOI: 10.1101/lm.053834.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Episodic memories are thought to be stabilized through the coordination of cortico-hippocampal activity during sleep. However, the timing and mechanism of this coordination remain unknown. To investigate this, we studied the relationship between hippocampal reactivation and slow-wave sleep up and down states of the retrosplenial cortex (RTC) and prefrontal cortex (PFC). We found that hippocampal reactivations are strongly correlated with specific cortical states. Reactivation occurred during sustained cortical Up states or during the transition from up to down state. Interestingly, the most prevalent interaction with memory reactivation in the hippocampus occurred during sustained up states of the PFC and RTC, while hippocampal reactivation and cortical up-to-down state transition in the RTC showed the strongest coordination. Reactivation usually occurred within 150-200 msec of a cortical Up state onset, indicating that a buildup of excitation during cortical Up state activity influences the probability of memory reactivation in CA1. Conversely, CA1 reactivation occurred 30-50 msec before the onset of a cortical down state, suggesting that memory reactivation affects down state initiation in the RTC and PFC, but the effect in the RTC was more robust. Our findings provide evidence that supports and highlights the complexity of bidirectional communication between cortical regions and the hippocampus during sleep.
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- Pedro A Feliciano-Ramos
- Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, Tulane Brain Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisana 70118, USA
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane Brain Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisana 70118, USA
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- Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Haufler D, Ito S, Koch C, Arkhipov A. Simulations of cortical networks using spatially extended conductance-based neuronal models. J Physiol 2023; 601:3123-3139. [PMID: 36567262 PMCID: PMC10290729 DOI: 10.1113/jp284030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The Hodgkin-Huxley model of action potential generation and propagation, published in the Journal of Physiology in 1952, initiated the field of biophysically detailed computational modelling in neuroscience, which has expanded to encompass a variety of species and components of the nervous system. Here we review the developments in this area with a focus on efforts in the community towards modelling the mammalian neocortex using spatially extended conductance-based neuronal models. The Hodgkin-Huxley formalism and related foundational contributions, such as Rall's cable theory, remain widely used in these efforts to the current day. We argue that at present the field is undergoing a qualitative change due to new very rich datasets describing the composition, connectivity and functional activity of cortical circuits, which are being integrated systematically into large-scale network models. This trend, combined with the accelerating development of convenient software tools supporting such complex modelling projects, is giving rise to highly detailed models of the cortex that are extensively constrained by the data, enabling computational investigation of a multitude of questions about cortical structure and function.
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- Mindscope Program, Allen Institute, Seattle, 98109
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Rimehaug AE, Stasik AJ, Hagen E, Billeh YN, Siegle JH, Dai K, Olsen SR, Koch C, Einevoll GT, Arkhipov A. Uncovering circuit mechanisms of current sinks and sources with biophysical simulations of primary visual cortex. eLife 2023; 12:e87169. [PMID: 37486105 PMCID: PMC10393295 DOI: 10.7554/elife.87169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023] Open
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Local field potential (LFP) recordings reflect the dynamics of the current source density (CSD) in brain tissue. The synaptic, cellular, and circuit contributions to current sinks and sources are ill-understood. We investigated these in mouse primary visual cortex using public Neuropixels recordings and a detailed circuit model based on simulating the Hodgkin-Huxley dynamics of >50,000 neurons belonging to 17 cell types. The model simultaneously captured spiking and CSD responses and demonstrated a two-way dissociation: firing rates are altered with minor effects on the CSD pattern by adjusting synaptic weights, and CSD is altered with minor effects on firing rates by adjusting synaptic placement on the dendrites. We describe how thalamocortical inputs and recurrent connections sculpt specific sinks and sources early in the visual response, whereas cortical feedback crucially alters them in later stages. These results establish quantitative links between macroscopic brain measurements (LFP/CSD) and microscopic biophysics-based understanding of neuron dynamics and show that CSD analysis provides powerful constraints for modeling beyond those from considering spikes.
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- Department of Physics, University of OsloOsloNorway
- Department of Data Science, Norwegian University of Life SciencesÅsNorway
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- MindScope Program, Allen InstituteSeattleUnited States
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- MindScope Program, Allen InstituteSeattleUnited States
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- MindScope Program, Allen InstituteSeattleUnited States
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- MindScope Program, Allen InstituteSeattleUnited States
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- Department of Physics, University of OsloOsloNorway
- Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Life SciencesÅsNorway
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Oprisan SA, Clementsmith X, Tompa T, Lavin A. Empirical mode decomposition of local field potential data from optogenetic experiments. Front Comput Neurosci 2023; 17:1223879. [PMID: 37476356 PMCID: PMC10354259 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2023.1223879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
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Introduction This study investigated the effects of cocaine administration and parvalbumin-type interneuron stimulation on local field potentials (LFPs) recorded in vivo from the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of six mice using optogenetic tools. Methods The local network was subject to a brief 10 ms laser pulse, and the response was recorded for 2 s over 100 trials for each of the six subjects who showed stable coupling between the mPFC and the optrode. Due to the strong non-stationary and nonlinearity of the LFP, we used the adaptive, data-driven, Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method to decompose the signal into orthogonal Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs). Results Through trial and error, we found that seven is the optimum number of orthogonal IMFs that overlaps with known frequency bands of brain activity. We found that the Index of Orthogonality (IO) of IMF amplitudes was close to zero. The Index of Energy Conservation (IEC) for each decomposition was close to unity, as expected for orthogonal decompositions. We found that the power density distribution vs. frequency follows a power law with an average scaling exponent of ~1.4 over the entire range of IMF frequencies 2-2,000 Hz. Discussion The scaling exponent is slightly smaller for cocaine than the control, suggesting that neural activity avalanches under cocaine have longer life spans and sizes.
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- Sorinel A. Oprisan
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Faculty of Healthcare, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary
- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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Parise AG, Oliveira TFDC, Debono MW, Souza GM. The Electrome of a Parasitic Plant in a Putative State of Attention Increases the Energy of Low Band Frequency Waves: A Comparative Study with Neural Systems. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:2005. [PMID: 37653922 PMCID: PMC10224360 DOI: 10.3390/plants12102005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Selective attention is an important cognitive phenomenon that allows organisms to flexibly engage with certain environmental cues or activities while ignoring others, permitting optimal behaviour. It has been proposed that selective attention can be present in many different animal species and, more recently, in plants. The phenomenon of attention in plants would be reflected in its electrophysiological activity, possibly being observable through electrophytographic (EPG) techniques. Former EPG time series obtained from the parasitic plant Cuscuta racemosa in a putative state of attention towards two different potential hosts, the suitable bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and the unsuitable wheat (Triticum aestivum), were revisited. Here, we investigated the potential existence of different band frequencies (including low, delta, theta, mu, alpha, beta, and gamma waves) using a protocol adapted from neuroscientific research. Average band power (ABP) was used to analyse the energy distribution of each band frequency in the EPG signals, and time dispersion analysis of features (TDAF) was used to explore the variations in the energy of each band. Our findings indicated that most band waves were centred in the lower frequencies. We also observed that C. racemosa invested more energy in these low-frequency waves when suitable hosts were present. However, we also noted peaks of energy investment in all the band frequencies, which may be linked to extremely low oscillatory electrical signals in the entire tissue. Overall, the presence of suitable hosts induced a higher energy power, which supports the hypothesis of attention in plants. We further discuss and compare our results with generic neural systems.
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- Laboratory of Plant Cognition and Electrophysiology (LACEV), Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Pelotas, Capão do Leão 96160-000, RS, Brazil; (T.F.d.C.O.)
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- Laboratory of Plant Cognition and Electrophysiology (LACEV), Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Pelotas, Capão do Leão 96160-000, RS, Brazil; (T.F.d.C.O.)
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Stöber TM, Batulin D, Triesch J, Narayanan R, Jedlicka P. Degeneracy in epilepsy: multiple routes to hyperexcitable brain circuits and their repair. Commun Biol 2023; 6:479. [PMID: 37137938 PMCID: PMC10156698 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04823-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
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Due to its complex and multifaceted nature, developing effective treatments for epilepsy is still a major challenge. To deal with this complexity we introduce the concept of degeneracy to the field of epilepsy research: the ability of disparate elements to cause an analogous function or malfunction. Here, we review examples of epilepsy-related degeneracy at multiple levels of brain organisation, ranging from the cellular to the network and systems level. Based on these insights, we outline new multiscale and population modelling approaches to disentangle the complex web of interactions underlying epilepsy and to design personalised multitarget therapies.
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- Tristan Manfred Stöber
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
- Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Goethe University, 60590, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- CePTER - Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research, Goethe University, 60590, Frankfurt, Germany
- Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Goethe University, 60486, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Cellular Neurophysiology Laboratory, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- ICAR3R - Interdisciplinary Centre for 3Rs in Animal Research, Faculty of Medicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35390, Giessen, Germany.
- Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Neuroscience Center, Goethe University, 60590, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Herreras O, Torres D, Makarov VA, Makarova J. Theoretical considerations and supporting evidence for the primary role of source geometry on field potential amplitude and spatial extent. Front Cell Neurosci 2023; 17:1129097. [PMID: 37066073 PMCID: PMC10097999 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2023.1129097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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Field potential (FP) recording is an accessible means to capture the shifts in the activity of neuron populations. However, the spatial and composite nature of these signals has largely been ignored, at least until it became technically possible to separate activities from co-activated sources in different structures or those that overlap in a volume. The pathway-specificity of mesoscopic sources has provided an anatomical reference that facilitates transcending from theoretical analysis to the exploration of real brain structures. We review computational and experimental findings that indicate how prioritizing the spatial geometry and density of sources, as opposed to the distance to the recording site, better defines the amplitudes and spatial reach of FPs. The role of geometry is enhanced by considering that zones of the active populations that act as sources or sinks of current may arrange differently with respect to each other, and have different geometry and densities. Thus, observations that seem counterintuitive in the scheme of distance-based logic alone can now be explained. For example, geometric factors explain why some structures produce FPs and others do not, why different FP motifs generated in the same structure extend far while others remain local, why factors like the size of an active population or the strong synchronicity of its neurons may fail to affect FPs, or why the rate of FP decay varies in different directions. These considerations are exemplified in large structures like the cortex and hippocampus, in which the role of geometrical elements and regional activation in shaping well-known FP oscillations generally go unnoticed. Discovering the geometry of the sources in play will decrease the risk of population or pathway misassignments based solely on the FP amplitude or temporal pattern.
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- Oscar Herreras
- Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Neurophysiology, Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain
- *Correspondence: Oscar Herreras,
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- Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Neurophysiology, Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Neurophysiology, Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain
- Julia Makarova,
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Zhang Y, Du K, Huang T. Heuristic Tree-Partition-Based Parallel Method for Biophysically Detailed Neuron Simulation. Neural Comput 2023; 35:627-644. [PMID: 36746142 DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 10/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Biophysically detailed neuron simulation is a powerful tool to explore the mechanisms behind biological experiments and bridge the gap between various scales in neuroscience research. However, the extremely high computational complexity of detailed neuron simulation restricts the modeling and exploration of detailed network models. The bottleneck is solving the system of linear equations. To accelerate detailed simulation, we propose a heuristic tree-partition-based parallel method (HTP) to parallelize the computation of the Hines algorithm, the kernel for solving linear equations, and leverage the strong parallel capability of the graphic processing unit (GPU) to achieve further speedup. We formulate the problem of how to get a fine parallel process as a tree-partition problem. Next, we present a heuristic partition algorithm to obtain an effective partition to efficiently parallelize the equation-solving process in detailed simulation. With further optimization on GPU, our HTP method achieves 2.2 to 8.5 folds speedup compared to the state-of-the-art GPU method and 36 to 660 folds speedup compared to the typical Hines algorithm.
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- Yichen Zhang
- School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- School of Computer Science and Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- School of Computer Science and Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Darmani G, Drummond NM, Ramezanpour H, Saha U, Hoque T, Udupa K, Sarica C, Zeng K, Cortez Grippe T, Nankoo JF, Bergmann TO, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Lozano AM, Hutchison WD, Fasano A, Chen R. Long-Term Recording of Subthalamic Aperiodic Activities and Beta Bursts in Parkinson's Disease. Mov Disord 2023; 38:232-243. [PMID: 36424835 DOI: 10.1002/mds.29276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2022] [Revised: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Local field potentials (LFPs) represent the summation of periodic (oscillations) and aperiodic (fractal) signals. Although previous studies showed changes in beta band oscillations and burst characteristics of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in Parkinson's disease (PD), how aperiodic activity in the STN is related to PD pathophysiology is unknown. OBJECTIVES The study aimed to characterize the long-term effects of STN-deep brain stimulation (DBS) and dopaminergic medications on aperiodic activities and beta bursts. METHODS A total of 10 patients with PD participated in this longitudinal study. Simultaneous bilateral STN-LFP recordings were conducted in six separate visits during a period of 18 months using the Activa PC + S device in the off and on dopaminergic medication states. We used irregular-resampling auto-spectral analysis to separate oscillations and aperiodic components (exponent and offset) in the power spectrum of STN-LFP signals in beta band. RESULTS Our results revealed a systematic increase in both the exponent and the offset of the aperiodic spectrum over 18 months following the DBS implantation, independent of the dopaminergic medication state of patients with PD. In contrast, beta burst durations and amplitudes were stable over time and were suppressed by dopaminergic medications. CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that oscillations and aperiodic activities reflect at least partially distinct yet complementary neural mechanisms, which should be considered in the design of robust biomarkers to optimize adaptive DBS. Given the link between increased gamma-aminobutyric acidergic (GABAergic) transmission and higher aperiodic activity, our findings suggest that long-term STN-DBS may relate to increased inhibition in the basal ganglia. © 2022 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Ghazaleh Darmani
- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Neuroimaging Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease, Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Clinic, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease, Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Clinic, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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Alamoudi OA, Ilyas A, Pati S, Iasemidis L. Interictal localization of the epileptogenic zone: Utilizing the observed resonance behavior in the spectral band of surrounding inhibition. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:993678. [PMID: 36578827 PMCID: PMC9791262 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.993678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Introduction The gold standard for identification of the epileptogenic zone (EZ) continues to be the visual inspection of electrographic changes around seizures' onset by experienced electroencephalography (EEG) readers. Development of an epileptogenic focus localization tool that can delineate the EZ from analysis of interictal (seizure-free) periods is still an open question of great significance for improved diagnosis (e.g., presurgical evaluation) and treatment of epilepsy (e.g., surgical outcome). Methods We developed an EZ interictal localization algorithm (EZILA) based on novel analysis of intracranial EEG (iEEG) using a univariate periodogram-type power measure, a straight-forward ranking approach, a robust dimensional reduction method and a clustering technique. Ten patients with temporal and extra temporal lobe epilepsies, and matching the inclusion criteria of having iEEG recordings at the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) and being Engel Class I ≥12 months post-surgery, were recruited in this study. Results In a nested k-fold cross validation statistical framework, EZILA assigned the highest score to iEEG channels within the EZ in all patients (10/10) during the first hour of the iEEG recordings and up to their first typical clinical seizure in the EMU (i.e., early interictal period). To further validate EZILA's performance, data from two new (Engel Class I) patients were analyzed in a double-blinded fashion; the EZILA successfully localized iEEG channels within the EZ from interictal iEEG in both patients. Discussion Out of the sampled brain regions, iEEG channels in the EZ were most frequently and maximally active in seizure-free (interictal) periods across patients in specific narrow gamma frequency band (∼60-80 Hz), which we have termed focal frequency band (FFB). These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the EZ may interictally be regulated (controlled) by surrounding inhibitory neurons with resonance characteristics within this narrow gamma band.
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- Omar A. Alamoudi
- Biomedical Engineering Program, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,Neurology Department, Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies (TIRN), University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, United States,*Correspondence: Omar A. Alamoudi,
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- Neurology Department, Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies (TIRN), University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, United States,Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States,Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School at University of Texas (UT) Health Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Neurology Department, Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies (TIRN), University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States,Department of Translational Neuroscience, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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Borges FS, Moreira JVS, Takarabe LM, Lytton WW, Dura-Bernal S. Large-scale biophysically detailed model of somatosensory thalamocortical circuits in NetPyNE. Front Neuroinform 2022; 16:884245. [PMID: 36213546 PMCID: PMC9536213 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2022.884245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The primary somatosensory cortex (S1) of mammals is critically important in the perception of touch and related sensorimotor behaviors. In 2015, the Blue Brain Project (BBP) developed a groundbreaking rat S1 microcircuit simulation with over 31,000 neurons with 207 morpho-electrical neuron types, and 37 million synapses, incorporating anatomical and physiological information from a wide range of experimental studies. We have implemented this highly detailed and complex S1 model in NetPyNE, using the data available in the Neocortical Microcircuit Collaboration Portal. NetPyNE provides a Python high-level interface to NEURON and allows defining complicated multiscale models using an intuitive declarative standardized language. It also facilitates running parallel simulations, automates the optimization and exploration of parameters using supercomputers, and provides a wide range of built-in analysis functions. This will make the S1 model more accessible and simpler to scale, modify and extend in order to explore research questions or interconnect to other existing models. Despite some implementation differences, the NetPyNE model preserved the original cell morphologies, electrophysiological responses and spatial distribution for all 207 cell types; and the connectivity properties of all 1941 pathways, including synaptic dynamics and short-term plasticity (STP). The NetPyNE S1 simulations produced reasonable physiological firing rates and activity patterns across all populations. When STP was included, the network generated a 1 Hz oscillation comparable to the original model in vitro-like state. By then reducing the extracellular calcium concentration, the model reproduced the original S1 in vivo-like states with asynchronous activity. These results validate the original study using a new modeling tool. Simulated local field potentials (LFPs) exhibited realistic oscillatory patterns and features, including distance- and frequency-dependent attenuation. The model was extended by adding thalamic circuits, including 6 distinct thalamic populations with intrathalamic, thalamocortical (TC) and corticothalamic connectivity derived from experimental data. The thalamic model reproduced single known cell and circuit-level dynamics, including burst and tonic firing modes and oscillatory patterns, providing a more realistic input to cortex and enabling study of TC interactions. Overall, our work provides a widely accessible, data-driven and biophysically-detailed model of the somatosensory TC circuits that can be employed as a community tool for researchers to study neural dynamics, function and disease.
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- Fernando S. Borges
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, United States
- Center for Mathematics, Computation, and Cognition, Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, United States
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- Center for Mathematics, Computation, and Cognition, Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, United States
- Department of Neurology, Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States
- Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaborative Research Network, Chevy Chase, MD, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, United States
- Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, United States
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Herreras O, Torres D, Martín-Vázquez G, Hernández-Recio S, López-Madrona VJ, Benito N, Makarov VA, Makarova J. Site-dependent shaping of field potential waveforms. Cereb Cortex 2022; 33:3636-3650. [PMID: 35972425 PMCID: PMC10068269 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The activity of neuron populations gives rise to field potentials (FPs) that extend beyond the sources. Their mixing in the volume dilutes the original temporal motifs in a site-dependent manner, a fact that has received little attention. And yet, it potentially rids of physiological significance the time-frequency parameters of individual waves (amplitude, phase, duration). This is most likely to happen when a single source or a local origin is erroneously assumed. Recent studies using spatial treatment of these signals and anatomically realistic modeling of neuron aggregates provide convincing evidence for the multisource origin and site-dependent blend of FPs. Thus, FPs generated in primary structures like the neocortex and hippocampus reach far and cross-contaminate each other but also, they add and even impose their temporal traits on distant regions. Furthermore, both structures house neurons that act as spatially distinct (but overlapped) FP sources whose activation is state, region, and time dependent, making the composition of so-called local FPs highly volatile and strongly site dependent. Since the spatial reach cannot be predicted without source geometry, it is important to assess whether waveforms and temporal motifs arise from a single source; otherwise, those from each of the co-active sources should be sought.
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- Oscar Herreras
- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Av. Doctor Arce 37, Madrid 28002, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Av. Doctor Arce 37, Madrid 28002, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Av. Doctor Arce 37, Madrid 28002, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Av. Doctor Arce 37, Madrid 28002, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Av. Doctor Arce 37, Madrid 28002, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Av. Doctor Arce 37, Madrid 28002, Spain
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Av. Paraninfo s/n, Madrid 28040, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Av. Doctor Arce 37, Madrid 28002, Spain.,Department of Applied Mathematics, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Av. Paraninfo s/n, Madrid 28040, Spain
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Anstey NJ, Kapgal V, Tiwari S, Watson TC, Toft AKH, Dando OR, Inkpen FH, Baxter PS, Kozić Z, Jackson AD, He X, Nawaz MS, Kayenaat A, Bhattacharya A, Wyllie DJA, Chattarji S, Wood ER, Hardt O, Kind PC. Imbalance of flight-freeze responses and their cellular correlates in the Nlgn3 -/y rat model of autism. Mol Autism 2022; 13:34. [PMID: 35850732 PMCID: PMC9290228 DOI: 10.1186/s13229-022-00511-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Mutations in the postsynaptic transmembrane protein neuroligin-3 are highly correlative with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and intellectual disabilities (IDs). Fear learning is well studied in models of these disorders, however differences in fear response behaviours are often overlooked. We aim to examine fear behaviour and its cellular underpinnings in a rat model of ASD/ID lacking Nlgn3. METHODS This study uses a range of behavioural tests to understand differences in fear response behaviour in Nlgn3-/y rats. Following this, we examined the physiological underpinnings of this in neurons of the periaqueductal grey (PAG), a midbrain area involved in flight-or-freeze responses. We used whole-cell patch-clamp recordings from ex vivo PAG slices, in addition to in vivo local-field potential recordings and electrical stimulation of the PAG in wildtype and Nlgn3-/y rats. We analysed behavioural data with two- and three-way ANOVAS and electrophysiological data with generalised linear mixed modelling (GLMM). RESULTS We observed that, unlike the wildtype, Nlgn3-/y rats are more likely to response with flight rather than freezing in threatening situations. Electrophysiological findings were in agreement with these behavioural outcomes. We found in ex vivo slices from Nlgn3-/y rats that neurons in dorsal PAG (dPAG) showed intrinsic hyperexcitability compared to wildtype. Similarly, stimulating dPAG in vivo revealed that lower magnitudes sufficed to evoke flight behaviour in Nlgn3-/y than wildtype rats, indicating the functional impact of the increased cellular excitability. LIMITATIONS Our findings do not examine what specific cell type in the PAG is likely responsible for these phenotypes. Furthermore, we have focussed on phenotypes in young adult animals, whilst the human condition associated with NLGN3 mutations appears during the first few years of life. CONCLUSIONS We describe altered fear responses in Nlgn3-/y rats and provide evidence that this is the result of a circuit bias that predisposes flight over freeze responses. Additionally, we demonstrate the first link between PAG dysfunction and ASD/ID. This study provides new insight into potential pathophysiologies leading to anxiety disorders and changes to fear responses in individuals with ASD.
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- Natasha J Anstey
- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India.,The University of Transdisciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India.,Dementia Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Dementia Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India.,The University of Transdisciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India.,Dementia Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India.,Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 1B1, Canada
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 5 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK. .,Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India.
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Totty MS, Maren S. Neural Oscillations in Aversively Motivated Behavior. Front Behav Neurosci 2022; 16:936036. [PMID: 35846784 PMCID: PMC9284508 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.936036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Fear and anxiety-based disorders are highly debilitating and among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders. These disorders are associated with abnormal network oscillations in the brain, yet a comprehensive understanding of the role of network oscillations in the regulation of aversively motivated behavior is lacking. In this review, we examine the oscillatory correlates of fear and anxiety with a particular focus on rhythms in the theta and gamma-range. First, we describe neural oscillations and their link to neural function by detailing the role of well-studied theta and gamma rhythms to spatial and memory functions of the hippocampus. We then describe how theta and gamma oscillations act to synchronize brain structures to guide adaptive fear and anxiety-like behavior. In short, that hippocampal network oscillations act to integrate spatial information with motivationally salient information from the amygdala during states of anxiety before routing this information via theta oscillations to appropriate target regions, such as the prefrontal cortex. Moreover, theta and gamma oscillations develop in the amygdala and neocortical areas during the encoding of fear memories, and interregional synchronization reflects the retrieval of both recent and remotely encoded fear memories. Finally, we argue that the thalamic nucleus reuniens represents a key node synchronizing prefrontal-hippocampal theta dynamics for the retrieval of episodic extinction memories in the hippocampus.
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Kapardi M, Pithapuram MV, Rangayyan YM, Iyengar RS, Singh AK, Sripada S, Raghavan M. In-silico neuro musculoskeletal model reproduces the movement types obtained by spinal micro stimulation. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2022; 220:106804. [PMID: 35436659 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Revised: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Virtual patients and physiologies allow experimentation, design, and early-stage clinical trials in-silico. Virtual patient technology for human movement systems that encompasses musculoskeleton and its neural control are few and far in between. Our major goal is to create a neuro- musculoskeletal upper limb in-silico model, which is modular in architecture and generates movement as an emergent phenomenon out of a multiscale co-simulation of spinal cord neural control and musculoskeletal dynamics. METHODS The model is developed on the NEUROiD movement simulation platform that enables a co-simulation of popular neural simulator NEURON and the musculoskeletal simulator OpenSim. We further characterized and demonstrated the use of this model in generating a range of commonly observed upper limb movements by means of a spatio-temporal stimulation pattern delivered to the cervical spinal cord. RESULTS We were able to characterize the model based on proprioception (Ia, Ib and II fibers), afferent conduction delay and inital postures of the musculoskeletal system. A smooth movement was achieved in all the considered experiments. The generated movements in all degrees of freedom were reproduced in accordance with the previous experimental studies. CONCLUSION In this work, design and development of the upper limb model was described in a modular fashion, while reusing existing models and modules. We believe this work enables a first and small step towards an in-silico paradigms for understanding upper limb movement, disease pathology, medication, and rehabilitation.
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Schürmann F, Courcol JD, Ramaswamy S. Computational Concepts for Reconstructing and Simulating Brain Tissue. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2022; 1359:237-259. [PMID: 35471542 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89439-9_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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It has previously been shown that it is possible to derive a new class of biophysically detailed brain tissue models when one computationally analyzes and exploits the interdependencies or the multi-modal and multi-scale organization of the brain. These reconstructions, sometimes referred to as digital twins, enable a spectrum of scientific investigations. Building such models has become possible because of increase in quantitative data but also advances in computational capabilities, algorithmic and methodological innovations. This chapter presents the computational science concepts that provide the foundation to the data-driven approach to reconstructing and simulating brain tissue as developed by the EPFL Blue Brain Project, which was originally applied to neocortical microcircuitry and extended to other brain regions. Accordingly, the chapter covers aspects such as a knowledge graph-based data organization and the importance of the concept of a dataset release. We illustrate algorithmic advances in finding suitable parameters for electrical models of neurons or how spatial constraints can be exploited for predicting synaptic connections. Furthermore, we explain how in silico experimentation with such models necessitates specific addressing schemes or requires strategies for an efficient simulation. The entire data-driven approach relies on the systematic validation of the model. We conclude by discussing complementary strategies that not only enable judging the fidelity of the model but also form the basis for its systematic refinements.
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- Felix Schürmann
- Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland
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Almog M, Degani-Katzav N, Korngreen A. Kinetic and thermodynamic modeling of a voltage-gated sodium channel. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL : EBJ 2022; 51:241-256. [PMID: 35199191 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-022-01591-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Revised: 01/30/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Like all biological and chemical reactions, ion channel kinetics are highly sensitive to changes in temperature. Therefore, it is prudent to investigate channel dynamics at physiological temperatures. However, most ion channel investigations are performed at room temperature due to practical considerations, such as recording stability and technical limitations. This problem is especially severe for the fast voltage-gated sodium channel, whose activation kinetics are faster than the time constant of the standard patch-clamp amplifier at physiological temperatures. Thus, biologically detailed simulations of the action potential generation evenly scale the kinetic models of voltage-gated channels acquired at room temperature. To quantitatively study voltage-gated sodium channels' temperature sensitivity, we recorded sodium currents from nucleated patches extracted from the rat's layer five neocortical pyramidal neurons at several temperatures from 13.5 to 30 °C. We use these recordings to model the kinetics of the voltage-gated sodium channel as a function of temperature. We show that the temperature dependence of activation differs from that of inactivation. Furthermore, the data indicate that the sustained current has a different temperature dependence than the fast current. Our kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of the current provided a numerical model spanning the entire temperature range. This model reproduced vital features of channel activation and inactivation. Furthermore, the model also reproduced action potential dependence on temperature. Thus, we provide an essential building block for the generation of biologically detailed models of cortical neurons.
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- Mara Almog
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, 52900, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, 52900, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Leslie and Susan Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, 52900, Ramat Gan, Israel.
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, 52900, Ramat Gan, Israel.
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Accelerating Allen Brain Institute’s Large-Scale Computational Model of Mice Primary Visual Cortex. ARTIF INTELL 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20503-3_57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Computing Extracellular Electric Potentials from Neuronal Simulations. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2022; 1359:179-199. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89439-9_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Huang C, Zeldenrust F, Celikel T. Cortical Representation of Touch in Silico. Neuroinformatics 2022; 20:1013-1039. [PMID: 35486347 PMCID: PMC9588483 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-022-09576-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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With its six layers and ~ 12,000 neurons, a cortical column is a complex network whose function is plausibly greater than the sum of its constituents'. Functional characterization of its network components will require going beyond the brute-force modulation of the neural activity of a small group of neurons. Here we introduce an open-source, biologically inspired, computationally efficient network model of the somatosensory cortex's granular and supragranular layers after reconstructing the barrel cortex in soma resolution. Comparisons of the network activity to empirical observations showed that the in silico network replicates the known properties of touch representations and whisker deprivation-induced changes in synaptic strength induced in vivo. Simulations show that the history of the membrane potential acts as a spatial filter that determines the presynaptic population of neurons contributing to a post-synaptic action potential; this spatial filtering might be critical for synaptic integration of top-down and bottom-up information.
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- Chao Huang
- grid.9647.c0000 0004 7669 9786Department of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- grid.5590.90000000122931605Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- grid.5590.90000000122931605Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands ,grid.213917.f0000 0001 2097 4943School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA
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Inferring entire spiking activity from local field potentials. Sci Rep 2021; 11:19045. [PMID: 34561480 PMCID: PMC8463692 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98021-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Extracellular recordings are typically analysed by separating them into two distinct signals: local field potentials (LFPs) and spikes. Previous studies have shown that spikes, in the form of single-unit activity (SUA) or multiunit activity (MUA), can be inferred solely from LFPs with moderately good accuracy. SUA and MUA are typically extracted via threshold-based technique which may not be reliable when the recordings exhibit a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Another type of spiking activity, referred to as entire spiking activity (ESA), can be extracted by a threshold-less, fast, and automated technique and has led to better performance in several tasks. However, its relationship with the LFPs has not been investigated. In this study, we aim to address this issue by inferring ESA from LFPs intracortically recorded from the motor cortex area of three monkeys performing different tasks. Results from long-term recording sessions and across subjects revealed that ESA can be inferred from LFPs with good accuracy. On average, the inference performance of ESA was consistently and significantly higher than those of SUA and MUA. In addition, local motor potential (LMP) was found to be the most predictive feature. The overall results indicate that LFPs contain substantial information about spiking activity, particularly ESA. This could be useful for understanding LFP-spike relationship and for the development of LFP-based BMIs.
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Sinha M, Narayanan R. Active Dendrites and Local Field Potentials: Biophysical Mechanisms and Computational Explorations. Neuroscience 2021; 489:111-142. [PMID: 34506834 PMCID: PMC7612676 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.08.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Revised: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Neurons and glial cells are endowed with membranes that express a rich repertoire of ion channels, transporters, and receptors. The constant flux of ions across the neuronal and glial membranes results in voltage fluctuations that can be recorded from the extracellular matrix. The high frequency components of this voltage signal contain information about the spiking activity, reflecting the output from the neurons surrounding the recording location. The low frequency components of the signal, referred to as the local field potential (LFP), have been traditionally thought to provide information about the synaptic inputs that impinge on the large dendritic trees of various neurons. In this review, we discuss recent computational and experimental studies pointing to a critical role of several active dendritic mechanisms that can influence the genesis and the location-dependent spectro-temporal dynamics of LFPs, spanning different brain regions. We strongly emphasize the need to account for the several fast and slow dendritic events and associated active mechanisms - including gradients in their expression profiles, inter- and intra-cellular spatio-temporal interactions spanning neurons and glia, heterogeneities and degeneracy across scales, neuromodulatory influences, and activitydependent plasticity - towards gaining important insights about the origins of LFP under different behavioral states in health and disease. We provide simple but essential guidelines on how to model LFPs taking into account these dendritic mechanisms, with detailed methodology on how to account for various heterogeneities and electrophysiological properties of neurons and synapses while studying LFPs.
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- Manisha Sinha
- Cellular Neurophysiology Laboratory, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka 560012, India
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- Cellular Neurophysiology Laboratory, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka 560012, India.
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Lee EK, Balasubramanian H, Tsolias A, Anakwe SU, Medalla M, Shenoy KV, Chandrasekaran C. Non-linear dimensionality reduction on extracellular waveforms reveals cell type diversity in premotor cortex. eLife 2021; 10:e67490. [PMID: 34355695 PMCID: PMC8452311 DOI: 10.7554/elife.67490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cortical circuits are thought to contain a large number of cell types that coordinate to produce behavior. Current in vivo methods rely on clustering of specified features of extracellular waveforms to identify putative cell types, but these capture only a small amount of variation. Here, we develop a new method (WaveMAP) that combines non-linear dimensionality reduction with graph clustering to identify putative cell types. We apply WaveMAP to extracellular waveforms recorded from dorsal premotor cortex of macaque monkeys performing a decision-making task. Using WaveMAP, we robustly establish eight waveform clusters and show that these clusters recapitulate previously identified narrow- and broad-spiking types while revealing previously unknown diversity within these subtypes. The eight clusters exhibited distinct laminar distributions, characteristic firing rate patterns, and decision-related dynamics. Such insights were weaker when using feature-based approaches. WaveMAP therefore provides a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of cell types in cortical circuits.
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- Eric Kenji Lee
- Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston UniversityBostonUnited States
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- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Bernstein Center for Computational NeuroscienceBerlinGermany
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston UniversityBostonUnited States
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston UniversityBostonUnited States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
- Bio-X Institute, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston UniversityBostonUnited States
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston UniversityBostonUnited States
- Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston UniversityBostonUnited States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston UniversityBostonUnited States
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Mishra P, Narayanan R. Ion-channel degeneracy: Multiple ion channels heterogeneously regulate intrinsic physiology of rat hippocampal granule cells. Physiol Rep 2021; 9:e14963. [PMID: 34342171 PMCID: PMC8329439 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.14963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2021] [Revised: 06/13/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Degeneracy, the ability of multiple structural components to elicit the same characteristic functional properties, constitutes an elegant mechanism for achieving biological robustness. In this study, we sought electrophysiological signatures for the expression of ion-channel degeneracy in the emergence of intrinsic properties of rat hippocampal granule cells. We measured the impact of four different ion-channel subtypes-hyperpolarization-activated cyclic-nucleotide-gated (HCN), barium-sensitive inward rectifier potassium (Kir ), tertiapin-Q-sensitive inward rectifier potassium, and persistent sodium (NaP) channels-on 21 functional measurements employing pharmacological agents, and report electrophysiological data on two characteristic signatures for the expression of ion-channel degeneracy in granule cells. First, the blockade of a specific ion-channel subtype altered several, but not all, functional measurements. Furthermore, any given functional measurement was altered by the blockade of many, but not all, ion-channel subtypes. Second, the impact of blocking each ion-channel subtype manifested neuron-to-neuron variability in the quantum of changes in the electrophysiological measurements. Specifically, we found that blocking HCN or Ba-sensitive Kir channels enhanced action potential firing rate, but blockade of NaP channels reduced firing rate of granule cells. Subthreshold measures of granule cell intrinsic excitability (input resistance, temporal summation, and impedance amplitude) were enhanced by blockade of HCN or Ba-sensitive Kir channels, but were not significantly altered by NaP channel blockade. We confirmed that the HCN and Ba-sensitive Kir channels independently altered sub- and suprathreshold properties of granule cells through sequential application of pharmacological agents that blocked these channels. Finally, we found that none of the sub- or suprathreshold measurements of granule cells were significantly altered upon treatment with tertiapin-Q. Together, the heterogeneous many-to-many mapping between ion channels and single-neuron intrinsic properties emphasizes the need to account for ion-channel degeneracy in cellular- and network-scale physiology.
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- Poonam Mishra
- Cellular Neurophysiology LaboratoryMolecular Biophysics UnitIndian Institute of ScienceBangaloreIndia
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- Cellular Neurophysiology LaboratoryMolecular Biophysics UnitIndian Institute of ScienceBangaloreIndia
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Cerebellar Purkinje cells can differentially modulate coherence between sensory and motor cortex depending on region and behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2015292118. [PMID: 33443203 PMCID: PMC7812746 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2015292118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Activity of sensory and motor cortices is essential for sensorimotor integration. In particular, coherence between these areas may indicate binding of critical functions like perception, motor planning, action, or sleep. Evidence is accumulating that cerebellar output modulates cortical activity and coherence, but how, when, and where it does so is unclear. We studied activity in and coherence between S1 and M1 cortices during whisker stimulation in the absence and presence of optogenetic Purkinje cell stimulation in crus 1 and 2 of awake mice, eliciting strong simple spike rate modulation. Without Purkinje cell stimulation, whisker stimulation triggers fast responses in S1 and M1 involving transient coherence in a broad spectrum. Simultaneous stimulation of Purkinje cells and whiskers affects amplitude and kinetics of sensory responses in S1 and M1 and alters the estimated S1-M1 coherence in theta and gamma bands, allowing bidirectional control dependent on behavioral context. These effects are absent when Purkinje cell activation is delayed by 20 ms. Focal stimulation of Purkinje cells revealed site specificity, with cells in medial crus 2 showing the most prominent and selective impact on estimated coherence, i.e., a strong suppression in the gamma but not the theta band. Granger causality analyses and computational modeling of the involved networks suggest that Purkinje cells control S1-M1 phase consistency predominantly via ventrolateral thalamus and M1. Our results indicate that activity of sensorimotor cortices can be dynamically and functionally modulated by specific cerebellar inputs, highlighting a widespread role of the cerebellum in coordinating sensorimotor behavior.
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Large-Scale and Multiscale Networks in the Rodent Brain during Novelty Exploration. eNeuro 2021; 8:ENEURO.0494-20.2021. [PMID: 33757983 PMCID: PMC8121262 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0494-20.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Revised: 01/27/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Neural activity is coordinated across multiple spatial and temporal scales, and these patterns of coordination are implicated in both healthy and impaired cognitive operations. However, empirical cross-scale investigations are relatively infrequent, because of limited data availability and to the difficulty of analyzing rich multivariate datasets. Here, we applied frequency-resolved multivariate source-separation analyses to characterize a large-scale dataset comprising spiking and local field potential (LFP) activity recorded simultaneously in three brain regions (prefrontal cortex, parietal cortex, hippocampus) in freely-moving mice. We identified a constellation of multidimensional, inter-regional networks across a range of frequencies (2-200 Hz). These networks were reproducible within animals across different recording sessions, but varied across different animals, suggesting individual variability in network architecture. The theta band (∼4-10 Hz) networks had several prominent features, including roughly equal contribution from all regions and strong inter-network synchronization. Overall, these findings demonstrate a multidimensional landscape of large-scale functional activations of cortical networks operating across multiple spatial, spectral, and temporal scales during open-field exploration.
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Wason TD. A model integrating multiple processes of synchronization and coherence for information instantiation within a cortical area. Biosystems 2021; 205:104403. [PMID: 33746019 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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What is the form of dynamic, e.g., sensory, information in the mammalian cortex? Information in the cortex is modeled as a coherence map of a mixed chimera state of synchronous, phasic, and disordered minicolumns. The theoretical model is built on neurophysiological evidence. Complex spatiotemporal information is instantiated through a system of interacting biological processes that generate a synchronized cortical area, a coherent aperture. Minicolumn elements are grouped in macrocolumns in an array analogous to a phased-array radar, modeled as an aperture, a "hole through which radiant energy flows." Coherence maps in a cortical area transform inputs from multiple sources into outputs to multiple targets, while reducing complexity and entropy. Coherent apertures can assume extremely large numbers of different information states as coherence maps, which can be communicated among apertures with corresponding very large bandwidths. The coherent aperture model incorporates considerable reported research, integrating five conceptually and mathematically independent processes: 1) a damped Kuramoto network model, 2) a pumped area field potential, 3) the gating of nearly coincident spikes, 4) the coherence of activity across cortical lamina, and 5) complex information formed through functions in macrocolumns. Biological processes and their interactions are described in equations and a functional circuit such that the mathematical pieces can be assembled the same way the neurophysiological ones are. The model can be conceptually convolved over the specifics of local cortical areas within and across species. A coherent aperture becomes a node in a graph of cortical areas with a corresponding distribution of information.
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- Thomas D Wason
- North Carolina State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Meitzen Laboratory, Campus Box 7617, 128 David Clark Labs, Raleigh, NC 27695-7617, USA.
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Brain-to-brain communication: the possible role of brain electromagnetic fields (As a Potential Hypothesis). Heliyon 2021; 7:e06363. [PMID: 33732922 PMCID: PMC7937662 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Revised: 12/29/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Up now, the communication between brains of different humans or animals has been confirmed and confined by the sensory medium and motor facilities of body. Recently, direct brain-to-brain communication (DBBC) outside the conventional five senses has been verified between animals and humans. Nevertheless, no empirical studies or serious discussion have been performed to elucidate the mechanism behind this process. The validation of DBBC has been documented via recording similar pattern of action potentials occurring in the brain cortex of two animals. With regard to action potentials in brain neurons, the magnetic field resulting from the action potentials created in neurons is one of the tools where the brain of one animal can affect the brain of another. It has been shown that different animals, even humans, have the power to understand the magnetic field. Cryptochrome, which exists in the retina and in different regions of the brain, has been confirmed to be able to perceive magnetic fields and convert magnetic fields to action potentials. Recently, iron particles (Fe3O4) believed to be functioning as magnets have been found in various parts of the brain, and are postulated as magnetic field receptors. Newly developed supersensitive magnetic sensors made of iron magnets that can sense the brain's magnetic field have suggested the idea that these Fe3O4 particles or magnets may be capable of perceiving the brain's extremely weak magnetic field. The present study suggests that it is possible the extremely week magnetic field in one animal's brain to transmit vital and accurate information to another animal's brain.
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Donoghue T, Haller M, Peterson EJ, Varma P, Sebastian P, Gao R, Noto T, Lara AH, Wallis JD, Knight RT, Shestyuk A, Voytek B. Parameterizing neural power spectra into periodic and aperiodic components. Nat Neurosci 2020; 23:1655-1665. [PMID: 33230329 PMCID: PMC8106550 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-00744-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 681] [Impact Index Per Article: 170.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Electrophysiological signals exhibit both periodic and aperiodic properties. Periodic oscillations have been linked to numerous physiological, cognitive, behavioral and disease states. Emerging evidence demonstrates that the aperiodic component has putative physiological interpretations and that it dynamically changes with age, task demands and cognitive states. Electrophysiological neural activity is typically analyzed using canonically defined frequency bands, without consideration of the aperiodic (1/f-like) component. We show that standard analytic approaches can conflate periodic parameters (center frequency, power, bandwidth) with aperiodic ones (offset, exponent), compromising physiological interpretations. To overcome these limitations, we introduce an algorithm to parameterize neural power spectra as a combination of an aperiodic component and putative periodic oscillatory peaks. This algorithm requires no a priori specification of frequency bands. We validate this algorithm on simulated data, and demonstrate how it can be used in applications ranging from analyzing age-related changes in working memory to large-scale data exploration and analysis.
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- Thomas Donoghue
- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
- Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
- Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
- Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Torres D, Makarova J, Ortuño T, Benito N, Makarov VA, Herreras O. Local and Volume-Conducted Contributions to Cortical Field Potentials. Cereb Cortex 2020; 29:5234-5254. [PMID: 30941394 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Brain field potentials (FPs) can reach far from their sources, making difficult to know which waves come from where. We show that modern algorithms efficiently segregate the local and remote contributions to cortical FPs by recovering the generator-specific spatial voltage profiles. We investigated experimentally and numerically the local and remote origin of FPs in different cortical areas in anesthetized rats. All cortices examined show significant state, layer, and region dependent contribution of remote activity, while the voltage profiles help identify their subcortical or remote cortical origin. Co-activation of different cortical modules can be discriminated by the distinctive spatial features of the corresponding profiles. All frequency bands contain remote activity, thus influencing the FP time course, in cases drastically. The reach of different FP patterns is boosted by spatial coherence and curved geometry of the sources. For instance, slow cortical oscillations reached the entire brain, while hippocampal theta reached only some portions of the cortex. In anterior cortices, most alpha oscillations have a remote origin, while in the visual cortex the remote theta and gamma even surpass the local contribution. The quantitative approach to local and distant FP contributions helps to refine functional connectivity among cortical regions, and their relation to behavior.
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- Daniel Torres
- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute - CSIC, Av. Dr. Arce 37, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute - CSIC, Av. Dr. Arce 37, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute - CSIC, Av. Dr. Arce 37, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute - CSIC, Av. Dr. Arce 37, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Matemática Interdisciplinar, Faculty of Mathematics, Universidad, Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute - CSIC, Av. Dr. Arce 37, Madrid, Spain
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A Minimal Biophysical Model of Neocortical Pyramidal Cells: Implications for Frontal Cortex Microcircuitry and Field Potential Generation. J Neurosci 2020; 40:8513-8529. [PMID: 33037076 PMCID: PMC7605414 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0221-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2020] [Revised: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Ca2+ spikes initiated in the distal trunk of layer 5 pyramidal cells (PCs) underlie nonlinear dynamic changes in the gain of cellular response, critical for top-down control of cortical processing. Detailed models with many compartments and dozens of ionic channels can account for this Ca2+ spike-dependent gain and associated critical frequency. However, current models do not account for all known Ca2+-dependent features. Previous attempts to include more features have required increasing complexity, limiting their interpretability and utility for studying large population dynamics. We overcome these limitations in a minimal two-compartment biophysical model. In our model, a basal-dendrites/somatic compartment included fast-inactivating Na+ and delayed-rectifier K+ conductances, while an apical-dendrites/trunk compartment included persistent Na+, hyperpolarization-activated cation (I h ), slow-inactivating K+, muscarinic K+, and Ca2+ L-type. The model replicated the Ca2+ spike morphology and its critical frequency plus three other defining features of layer 5 PC synaptic integration: linear frequency-current relationships, back-propagation-activated Ca2+ spike firing, and a shift in the critical frequency by blocking I h Simulating 1000 synchronized layer 5 PCs, we reproduced the current source density patterns evoked by Ca2+ spikes and describe resulting medial-frontal EEG on a male macaque monkey. We reproduced changes in the current source density when I h was blocked. Thus, a two-compartment model with five crucial ionic currents in the apical dendrites reproduces all features of these neurons. We discuss the utility of this minimal model to study the microcircuitry of agranular areas of the frontal lobe involved in cognitive control and responsible for event-related potentials, such as the error-related negativity.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT A minimal model of layer 5 pyramidal cells replicates all known features crucial for distal synaptic integration in these neurons. By redistributing voltage-gated and returning transmembrane currents in the model, we establish a theoretical framework for the investigation of cortical microcircuit contribution to intracranial local field potentials and EEG. This tractable model will enable biophysical evaluation of multiscale electrophysiological signatures and computational investigation of cortical processing.
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Næss S, Halnes G, Hagen E, Hagler DJ, Dale AM, Einevoll GT, Ness TV. Biophysically detailed forward modeling of the neural origin of EEG and MEG signals. Neuroimage 2020; 225:117467. [PMID: 33075556 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2020] [Revised: 09/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) are among the most important techniques for non-invasively studying cognition and disease in the human brain. These signals are known to originate from cortical neural activity, typically described in terms of current dipoles. While the link between cortical current dipoles and EEG/MEG signals is relatively well understood, surprisingly little is known about the link between different kinds of neural activity and the current dipoles themselves. Detailed biophysical modeling has played an important role in exploring the neural origin of intracranial electric signals, like extracellular spikes and local field potentials. However, this approach has not yet been taken full advantage of in the context of exploring the neural origin of the cortical current dipoles that are causing EEG/MEG signals. Here, we present a method for reducing arbitrary simulated neural activity to single current dipoles. We find that the method is applicable for calculating extracranial signals, but less suited for calculating intracranial electrocorticography (ECoG) signals. We demonstrate that this approach can serve as a powerful tool for investigating the neural origin of EEG/MEG signals. This is done through example studies of the single-neuron EEG contribution, the putative EEG contribution from calcium spikes, and from calculating EEG signals from large-scale neural network simulations. We also demonstrate how the simulated current dipoles can be used directly in combination with detailed head models, allowing for simulated EEG signals with an unprecedented level of biophysical details. In conclusion, this paper presents a framework for biophysically detailed modeling of EEG and MEG signals, which can be used to better our understanding of non-inasively measured neural activity in humans.
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- Solveig Næss
- Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo 0316, Norway
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo 0316, Norway
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Neurosciences, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway; Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo 0316, Norway.
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway.
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Saggio ML, Crisp D, Scott JM, Karoly P, Kuhlmann L, Nakatani M, Murai T, Dümpelmann M, Schulze-Bonhage A, Ikeda A, Cook M, Gliske SV, Lin J, Bernard C, Jirsa V, Stacey WC. A taxonomy of seizure dynamotypes. eLife 2020; 9:55632. [PMID: 32691734 PMCID: PMC7375810 DOI: 10.7554/elife.55632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Seizures are a disruption of normal brain activity present across a vast range of species and conditions. We introduce an organizing principle that leads to the first objective Taxonomy of Seizure Dynamics (TSD) based on bifurcation theory. The ‘dynamotype’ of a seizure is the dynamic composition that defines its observable characteristics, including how it starts, evolves and ends. Analyzing over 2000 focal-onset seizures from multiple centers, we find evidence of all 16 dynamotypes predicted in TSD. We demonstrate that patients’ dynamotypes evolve during their lifetime and display complex but systematic variations including hierarchy (certain types are more common), non-bijectivity (a patient may display multiple types) and pairing preference (multiple types may occur during one seizure). TSD provides a way to stratify patients in complement to present clinical classifications, a language to describe the most critical features of seizure dynamics, and a framework to guide future research focused on dynamical properties. Epileptic seizures have been recognized for centuries. But it was only in the 1930s that it was realized that seizures are the result of out-of-control electrical activity in the brain. By placing electrodes on the scalp, doctors can identify when and where in the brain a seizure begins. But they cannot tell much about how the seizure behaves, that is, how it starts, stops or spreads to other areas. This makes it difficult to control and prevent seizures. It also helps explain why almost a third of patients with epilepsy continue to have seizures despite being on medication. Saggio, Crisp et al. have now approached this problem from a new angle using methods adapted from physics and engineering. In these fields, “dynamics research” has been used with great success to predict and control the behavior of complex systems like electrical power grids. Saggio, Crisp et al. reasoned that applying the same approach to the brain would reveal the dynamics of seizures and that such information could then be used to categorize seizures into groups with similar properties. This would in effect create for seizures what the periodic table is for the elements. Applying the dynamics research method to seizure data from more than a hundred patients from across the world revealed 16 types of seizure dynamics. These “dynamotypes” had distinct characteristics. Some were more common than others, and some tended to occur together. Individual patients showed different dynamotypes over time. By constructing a way to classify seizures based on the relationships between the dynamotypes, Saggio, Crisp et al. provide a new tool for clinicians and researchers studying epilepsy. Previous clinical tools have focused on the physical symptoms of a seizure (referred to as the phenotype) or its potential genetic causes (genotype). The current approach complements these tools by adding the dynamotype: how seizures start, spread and stop in the brain. This approach has the potential to lead to new branches of research and better understanding and treatment of seizures.
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- Maria Luisa Saggio
- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, INS, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseille, France, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, BioInterfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, BioInterfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Graeme Clark Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.,Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, INS, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseille, France, Marseille, France
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- Department of Epilepsy, Movement Disorders and Physiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Epilepsy Center, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Epilepsy Center, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.,Center for Basics in NeuroModulation (NeuroModul Basics), Epilepsy Center, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Epilepsy, Movement Disorders and Physiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graeme Clark Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.,Department of Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, INS, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseille, France, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, INS, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseille, France, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, BioInterfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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Teleńczuk M, Teleńczuk B, Destexhe A. Modelling unitary fields and the single-neuron contribution to local field potentials in the hippocampus. J Physiol 2020; 598:3957-3972. [PMID: 32598027 PMCID: PMC7540286 DOI: 10.1113/jp279452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Key points We simulate the unitary local field potential (uLFP) generated in the hippocampus CA3, using morphologically detailed models. The model suggests that cancelling effects between apical and basal dendritic synapses explain the low amplitude of excitatory uLFPs. Inhibitory synapses around the soma do not cancel and could explain the high‐amplitude inhibitory uLFPs. These results suggest that somatic inhibition constitutes a strong component of LFPs, which may explain a number of experimental observations.
Abstract Synaptic currents represent a major contribution to the local field potential (LFP) in brain tissue, but the respective contribution of excitatory and inhibitory synapses is not known. Here, we provide estimates of this contribution by using computational models of hippocampal pyramidal neurons, constrained by in vitro recordings. We focus on the unitary LFP (uLFP) generated by single neurons in the CA3 region of the hippocampus. We first reproduce experimental results for hippocampal basket cells, and in particular how inhibitory uLFP are distributed within hippocampal layers. Next, we calculate the uLFP generated by pyramidal neurons, using morphologically reconstructed CA3 pyramidal cells. The model shows that the excitatory uLFP is of small amplitude, smaller than inhibitory uLFPs. Indeed, when the two are simulated together, inhibitory uLFPs mask excitatory uLFPs, which might create the illusion that the inhibitory field is generated by pyramidal cells. These results provide an explanation for the observation that excitatory and inhibitory uLFPs are of the same polarity, in vivo and in vitro. These results suggest that somatic inhibitory currents are large contributors to the LFP, which is important information for interpreting this signal. Finally, the results of our model might form the basis of a simple method to compute the LFP, which could be applied to point neurons for each cell type, thus providing a simple biologically grounded method for calculating LFPs from neural networks. In conclusion, computational models constrained by in vitro recordings suggest that: (1) Excitatory uLFPs are of smaller amplitude than inhibitory uLFPs. (2) Inhibitory uLFPs form the major contribution to LFPs. (3) uLFPs can be used as a simple model to generate LFPs from spiking networks. We simulate the unitary local field potential (uLFP) generated in the hippocampus CA3, using morphologically detailed models. The model suggests that cancelling effects between apical and basal dendritic synapses explain the low amplitude of excitatory uLFPs. Inhibitory synapses around the soma do not cancel and could explain the high‐amplitude inhibitory uLFPs. These results suggest that somatic inhibition constitutes a strong component of LFPs, which may explain a number of experimental observations.
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- Maria Teleńczuk
- Paris-Saclay University, Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91198, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91198, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91198, France
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Thomas CW, Guillaumin MCC, McKillop LE, Achermann P, Vyazovskiy VV. Global sleep homeostasis reflects temporally and spatially integrated local cortical neuronal activity. eLife 2020; 9:e54148. [PMID: 32614324 PMCID: PMC7332296 DOI: 10.7554/elife.54148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Sleep homeostasis manifests as a relative constancy of its daily amount and intensity. Theoretical descriptions define 'Process S', a variable with dynamics dependent on global sleep-wake history, and reflected in electroencephalogram (EEG) slow wave activity (SWA, 0.5-4 Hz) during sleep. The notion of sleep as a local, activity-dependent process suggests that activity history must be integrated to determine the dynamics of global Process S. Here, we developed novel mathematical models of Process S based on cortical activity recorded in freely behaving mice, describing local Process S as a function of the deviation of neuronal firing rates from a locally defined set-point, independent of global sleep-wake state. Averaging locally derived Processes S and their rate parameters yielded values resembling those obtained from EEG SWA and global vigilance states. We conclude that local Process S dynamics reflects neuronal activity integrated over time, and global Process S reflects local processes integrated over space.
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- Christopher W Thomas
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of ZurichZurichSwitzerland
- The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of PsychiatryZurichSwitzerland
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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Katz CN, Patel K, Talakoub O, Groppe D, Hoffman K, Valiante TA. Differential Generation of Saccade, Fixation, and Image-Onset Event-Related Potentials in the Human Mesial Temporal Lobe. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:5502-5516. [PMID: 32494805 PMCID: PMC7472212 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Event-related potentials (ERPs) are a commonly used electrophysiological signature for studying mesial temporal lobe (MTL) function during visual memory tasks. The ERPs associated with the onset of visual stimuli (image-onset) and eye movements (saccades and fixations) provide insights into the mechanisms of their generation. We hypothesized that since eye movements and image-onset provide MTL structures with salient visual information, perhaps they both engage similar neural mechanisms. To explore this question, we used intracranial electroencephalographic data from the MTLs of 11 patients with medically refractory epilepsy who participated in a visual search task. We characterized the electrophysiological responses of MTL structures to saccades, fixations, and image-onset. We demonstrated that the image-onset response is an evoked/additive response with a low-frequency power increase. In contrast, ERPs following eye movements appeared to arise from phase resetting of higher frequencies than the image-onset ERP. Intriguingly, this reset was associated with saccade onset and not termination (fixation), suggesting it is likely the MTL response to a corollary discharge, rather than a response to visual stimulation. We discuss the distinct mechanistic underpinnings of these responses which shed light on the underlying neural circuitry involved in visual memory processing.
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- Chaim N Katz
- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON M5T 1M8, Canada.,Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G9, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON M5T 1M8, Canada.,Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G9, Canada.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON M5T 1M8, Canada.,Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON M5T 1M8, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON M5T 1M8, Canada.,Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G9, Canada.,Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada.,Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.,Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G4, Canada
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Poirazi P, Papoutsi A. Illuminating dendritic function with computational models. Nat Rev Neurosci 2020; 21:303-321. [PMID: 32393820 DOI: 10.1038/s41583-020-0301-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Dendrites have always fascinated researchers: from the artistic drawings by Ramon y Cajal to the beautiful recordings of today, neuroscientists have been striving to unravel the mysteries of these structures. Theoretical work in the 1960s predicted important dendritic effects on neuronal processing, establishing computational modelling as a powerful technique for their investigation. Since then, modelling of dendrites has been instrumental in driving neuroscience research in a targeted manner, providing experimentally testable predictions that range from the subcellular level to the systems level, and their relevance extends to fields beyond neuroscience, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. Validation of modelling predictions often requires - and drives - new technological advances, thus closing the loop with theory-driven experimentation that moves the field forward. This Review features the most important, to our understanding, contributions of modelling of dendritic computations, including those pending experimental verification, and highlights studies of successful interactions between the modelling and experimental neuroscience communities.
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- Panayiota Poirazi
- Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
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- Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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Systematic Integration of Structural and Functional Data into Multi-scale Models of Mouse Primary Visual Cortex. Neuron 2020; 106:388-403.e18. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Ellingsrud AJ, Solbrå A, Einevoll GT, Halnes G, Rognes ME. Finite Element Simulation of Ionic Electrodiffusion in Cellular Geometries. Front Neuroinform 2020; 14:11. [PMID: 32269519 PMCID: PMC7109287 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2020.00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Mathematical models for excitable cells are commonly based on cable theory, which considers a homogenized domain and spatially constant ionic concentrations. Although such models provide valuable insight, the effect of altered ion concentrations or detailed cell morphology on the electrical potentials cannot be captured. In this paper, we discuss an alternative approach to detailed modeling of electrodiffusion in neural tissue. The mathematical model describes the distribution and evolution of ion concentrations in a geometrically-explicit representation of the intra- and extracellular domains. As a combination of the electroneutral Kirchhoff-Nernst-Planck (KNP) model and the Extracellular-Membrane-Intracellular (EMI) framework, we refer to this model as the KNP-EMI model. Here, we introduce and numerically evaluate a new, finite element-based numerical scheme for the KNP-EMI model, capable of efficiently and flexibly handling geometries of arbitrary dimension and arbitrary polynomial degree. Moreover, we compare the electrical potentials predicted by the KNP-EMI and EMI models. Finally, we study ephaptic coupling induced in an unmyelinated axon bundle and demonstrate how the KNP-EMI framework can give new insights in this setting.
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- Ada J. Ellingsrud
- Department for Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Department for Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway
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Skaar JEW, Stasik AJ, Hagen E, Ness TV, Einevoll GT. Estimation of neural network model parameters from local field potentials (LFPs). PLoS Comput Biol 2020; 16:e1007725. [PMID: 32155141 PMCID: PMC7083334 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Revised: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Most modeling in systems neuroscience has been descriptive where neural representations such as ‘receptive fields’, have been found by statistically correlating neural activity to sensory input. In the traditional physics approach to modelling, hypotheses are represented by mechanistic models based on the underlying building blocks of the system, and candidate models are validated by comparing with experiments. Until now validation of mechanistic cortical network models has been based on comparison with neuronal spikes, found from the high-frequency part of extracellular electrical potentials. In this computational study we investigated to what extent the low-frequency part of the signal, the local field potential (LFP), can be used to validate and infer properties of mechanistic cortical network models. In particular, we asked the question whether the LFP can be used to accurately estimate synaptic connection weights in the underlying network. We considered the thoroughly analysed Brunel network comprising an excitatory and an inhibitory population of recurrently connected integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons. This model exhibits a high diversity of spiking network dynamics depending on the values of only three network parameters. The LFP generated by the network was computed using a hybrid scheme where spikes computed from the point-neuron network were replayed on biophysically detailed multicompartmental neurons. We assessed how accurately the three model parameters could be estimated from power spectra of stationary ‘background’ LFP signals by application of convolutional neural nets (CNNs). All network parameters could be very accurately estimated, suggesting that LFPs indeed can be used for network model validation. Most of what we have learned about brain networks in vivo has come from the measurement of spikes (action potentials) recorded by extracellular electrodes. The low-frequency part of these signals, the local field potential (LFP), contains unique information about how dendrites in neuronal populations integrate synaptic inputs, but has so far played a lesser role. To investigate whether the LFP can be used to validate network models, we computed LFP signals for a recurrent network model (the Brunel network) for which the ground-truth parameters are known. By application of convolutional neural nets (CNNs) we found that the synaptic weights indeed could be accurately estimated from ‘background’ LFP signals, suggesting a future key role for LFP in development of network models.
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- Jan-Eirik W. Skaar
- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Martinez-Banaclocha M. Astroglial Isopotentiality and Calcium-Associated Biomagnetic Field Effects on Cortical Neuronal Coupling. Cells 2020; 9:cells9020439. [PMID: 32069981 PMCID: PMC7073214 DOI: 10.3390/cells9020439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Synaptic neurotransmission is necessary but does not sufficiently explain superior cognitive faculties. Growing evidence has shown that neuron-astroglial chemical crosstalk plays a critical role in the processing of information, computation, and memory. In addition to chemical and electrical communication among neurons and between neurons and astrocytes, other nonsynaptic mechanisms called ephaptic interactions can contribute to the neuronal synchronization from different brain regions involved in the processing of information. New research on brain astrocytes has clearly shown that the membrane potential of these cells remains very stable among neighboring and distant astrocytes due to the marked bioelectric coupling between them through gap junctions. This finding raises the possibility that the neocortical astroglial network exerts a guiding template modulating the excitability and synchronization of trillions of neurons by astroglial Ca2+-associated bioelectromagnetic interactions. We propose that bioelectric and biomagnetic fields of the astroglial network equalize extracellular local field potentials (LFPs) and associated local magnetic field potentials (LMFPs) in the cortical layers of the brain areas involved in the processing of information, contributing to the adequate and coherent integration of external and internal signals. This article reviews the current knowledge of ephaptic interactions in the cerebral cortex and proposes that the isopotentiality of cortical astrocytes is a prerequisite for the maintenance of the bioelectromagnetic crosstalk between neurons and astrocytes in the neocortex.
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Neymotin SA, Daniels DS, Caldwell B, McDougal RA, Carnevale NT, Jas M, Moore CI, Hines ML, Hämäläinen M, Jones SR. Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN), a new software tool for interpreting the cellular and network origin of human MEG/EEG data. eLife 2020; 9:e51214. [PMID: 31967544 PMCID: PMC7018509 DOI: 10.7554/elife.51214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Magneto- and electro-encephalography (MEG/EEG) non-invasively record human brain activity with millisecond resolution providing reliable markers of healthy and disease states. Relating these macroscopic signals to underlying cellular- and circuit-level generators is a limitation that constrains using MEG/EEG to reveal novel principles of information processing or to translate findings into new therapies for neuropathology. To address this problem, we built Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN, https://hnn.brown.edu) software. HNN has a graphical user interface designed to help researchers and clinicians interpret the neural origins of MEG/EEG. HNN's core is a neocortical circuit model that accounts for biophysical origins of electrical currents generating MEG/EEG. Data can be directly compared to simulated signals and parameters easily manipulated to develop/test hypotheses on a signal's origin. Tutorials teach users to simulate commonly measured signals, including event related potentials and brain rhythms. HNN's ability to associate signals across scales makes it a unique tool for translational neuroscience research.
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- Samuel A Neymotin
- Department Neuroscience, Carney Institute for Brain SciencesBrown UniversityProvidenceUnited States
- Center for Biomedical Imaging and NeuromodulationNathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric ResearchOrangeburgUnited States
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- Department Neuroscience, Carney Institute for Brain SciencesBrown UniversityProvidenceUnited States
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- Department Neuroscience, Carney Institute for Brain SciencesBrown UniversityProvidenceUnited States
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- Department NeuroscienceYale UniversityNew HavenUnited States
- Department of BiostatisticsYale UniversityNew HavenUnited States
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical ImagingMassachusetts General HospitalCharlestownUnited States
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonUnited States
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- Department Neuroscience, Carney Institute for Brain SciencesBrown UniversityProvidenceUnited States
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- Department NeuroscienceYale UniversityNew HavenUnited States
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical ImagingMassachusetts General HospitalCharlestownUnited States
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonUnited States
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- Department Neuroscience, Carney Institute for Brain SciencesBrown UniversityProvidenceUnited States
- Center for Neurorestoration and NeurotechnologyProvidence VAMCProvidenceUnited States
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Datteri E. Biological accuracy in large-scale brain simulations. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES 2020; 42:5. [PMID: 31925568 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-020-0299-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2018] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The advancement of computing technology makes it possible to build extremely accurate digital reconstructions of brain circuits. Are such unprecedented levels of biological accuracy essential for brain simulations to play the roles they are expected to play in neuroscientific research? The main goal of this paper is to clarify this question by distinguishing between various roles played by large-scale simulations in contemporary neuroscience, and by reflecting about what makes a simulation biologically accurate. It is argued that large-scale simulations may play model-oriented and prediction-oriented roles in brain research, and that the concept of biological accuracy can be interpreted as related to the plausibility of the theoretical model implemented in the simulation system, to the accuracy of the computer implementation, and to the level of details of the implemented model. Building on these observations and distinctions, it is argued that biological accuracy is not essential for a computer simulation to play the epistemic roles it is expected to play in brain research.
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- Edoardo Datteri
- Department of Human Sciences for Education, RobotiCSS Lab (Laboratory of Robotics for the Cognitive and Social Sciences), University of Milano-Bicocca, Building U6, Fourth Floor, Room 4145, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126, Milan, MI, Italy.
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