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Connectivity concepts in neuronal network modeling. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1010086. [PMID: 36074778 PMCID: PMC9455883 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Sustainable research on computational models of neuronal networks requires published models to be understandable, reproducible, and extendable. Missing details or ambiguities about mathematical concepts and assumptions, algorithmic implementations, or parameterizations hinder progress. Such flaws are unfortunately frequent and one reason is a lack of readily applicable standards and tools for model description. Our work aims to advance complete and concise descriptions of network connectivity but also to guide the implementation of connection routines in simulation software and neuromorphic hardware systems. We first review models made available by the computational neuroscience community in the repositories ModelDB and Open Source Brain, and investigate the corresponding connectivity structures and their descriptions in both manuscript and code. The review comprises the connectivity of networks with diverse levels of neuroanatomical detail and exposes how connectivity is abstracted in existing description languages and simulator interfaces. We find that a substantial proportion of the published descriptions of connectivity is ambiguous. Based on this review, we derive a set of connectivity concepts for deterministically and probabilistically connected networks and also address networks embedded in metric space. Beside these mathematical and textual guidelines, we propose a unified graphical notation for network diagrams to facilitate an intuitive understanding of network properties. Examples of representative network models demonstrate the practical use of the ideas. We hope that the proposed standardizations will contribute to unambiguous descriptions and reproducible implementations of neuronal network connectivity in computational neuroscience.
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Electro-anatomical computational cardiology in humans and experimental animal models. TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN ANATOMY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tria.2022.100162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Biomedical Repositories for Simulation Studies. SYSTEMS MEDICINE 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-801238-3.11684-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Tutorial: a computational framework for the design and optimization of peripheral neural interfaces. Nat Protoc 2020; 15:3129-3153. [DOI: 10.1038/s41596-020-0377-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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An Optimizing Multi-platform Source-to-source Compiler Framework for the NEURON MODeling Language. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2020. [PMCID: PMC7302241 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50371-0_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Kaspirzhnyi AV. Conditions of Switching between Local Electric Activity Modes in the Dendritic Membrane of Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons: A Simulation Study. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY+ 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s11062-018-9731-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Mulugeta L, Drach A, Erdemir A, Hunt CA, Horner M, Ku JP, Myers JG, Vadigepalli R, Lytton WW. Credibility, Replicability, and Reproducibility in Simulation for Biomedicine and Clinical Applications in Neuroscience. Front Neuroinform 2018; 12:18. [PMID: 29713272 PMCID: PMC5911506 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2018.00018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Modeling and simulation in computational neuroscience is currently a research enterprise to better understand neural systems. It is not yet directly applicable to the problems of patients with brain disease. To be used for clinical applications, there must not only be considerable progress in the field but also a concerted effort to use best practices in order to demonstrate model credibility to regulatory bodies, to clinics and hospitals, to doctors, and to patients. In doing this for neuroscience, we can learn lessons from long-standing practices in other areas of simulation (aircraft, computer chips), from software engineering, and from other biomedical disciplines. In this manuscript, we introduce some basic concepts that will be important in the development of credible clinical neuroscience models: reproducibility and replicability; verification and validation; model configuration; and procedures and processes for credible mechanistic multiscale modeling. We also discuss how garnering strong community involvement can promote model credibility. Finally, in addition to direct usage with patients, we note the potential for simulation usage in the area of Simulation-Based Medical Education, an area which to date has been primarily reliant on physical models (mannequins) and scenario-based simulations rather than on numerical simulations.
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- The Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biomodeling (CoBi) Core, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics and Computational Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, The State University of New York, New York, NY, United States.,Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, The State University of New York, New York, NY, United States.,Department of Neurology, Kings County Hospital Center, New York, NY, United States
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McDougal RA, Morse TM, Carnevale T, Marenco L, Wang R, Migliore M, Miller PL, Shepherd GM, Hines ML. Twenty years of ModelDB and beyond: building essential modeling tools for the future of neuroscience. J Comput Neurosci 2017; 42:1-10. [PMID: 27629590 PMCID: PMC5279891 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-016-0623-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2016] [Revised: 08/17/2016] [Accepted: 08/30/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Neuron modeling may be said to have originated with the Hodgkin and Huxley action potential model in 1952 and Rall's models of integrative activity of dendrites in 1964. Over the ensuing decades, these approaches have led to a massive development of increasingly accurate and complex data-based models of neurons and neuronal circuits. ModelDB was founded in 1996 to support this new field and enhance the scientific credibility and utility of computational neuroscience models by providing a convenient venue for sharing them. It has grown to include over 1100 published models covering more than 130 research topics. It is actively curated and developed to help researchers discover and understand models of interest. ModelDB also provides mechanisms to assist running models both locally and remotely, and has a graphical tool that enables users to explore the anatomical and biophysical properties that are represented in a model. Each of its capabilities is undergoing continued refinement and improvement in response to user experience. Large research groups (Allen Brain Institute, EU Human Brain Project, etc.) are emerging that collect data across multiple scales and integrate that data into many complex models, presenting new challenges of scale. We end by predicting a future for neuroscience increasingly fueled by new technology and high performance computation, and increasingly in need of comprehensive user-friendly databases such as ModelDB to provide the means to integrate the data for deeper insights into brain function in health and disease.
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- Robert A McDougal
- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, PO Box 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520-8001, USA.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, PO Box 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520-8001, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, PO Box 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520-8001, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, PO Box 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520-8001, USA
- VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA
- Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, PO Box 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520-8001, USA
- Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Palermo, Italy
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- VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA
- Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, PO Box 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520-8001, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, PO Box 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520-8001, USA
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Neymotin SA, Suter BA, Dura-Bernal S, Shepherd GMG, Migliore M, Lytton WW. Optimizing computer models of corticospinal neurons to replicate in vitro dynamics. J Neurophysiol 2016; 117:148-162. [PMID: 27760819 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00570.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Corticospinal neurons (SPI), thick-tufted pyramidal neurons in motor cortex layer 5B that project caudally via the medullary pyramids, display distinct class-specific electrophysiological properties in vitro: strong sag with hyperpolarization, lack of adaptation, and a nearly linear frequency-current (F-I) relationship. We used our electrophysiological data to produce a pair of large archives of SPI neuron computer models in two model classes: 1) detailed models with full reconstruction; and 2) simplified models with six compartments. We used a PRAXIS and an evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) in sequence to determine ion channel conductances. EMO selected good models from each of the two model classes to form the two model archives. Archived models showed tradeoffs across fitness functions. For example, parameters that produced excellent F-I fit produced a less-optimal fit for interspike voltage trajectory. Because of these tradeoffs, there was no single best model but rather models that would be best for particular usages for either single neuron or network explorations. Further exploration of exemplar models with strong F-I fit demonstrated that both the detailed and simple models produced excellent matches to the experimental data. Although dendritic ion identities and densities cannot yet be fully determined experimentally, we explored the consequences of a demonstrated proximal to distal density gradient of Ih, demonstrating that this would lead to a gradient of resonance properties with increased resonant frequencies more distally. We suggest that this dynamical feature could serve to make the cell particularly responsive to major frequency bands that differ by cortical layer. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We developed models of motor cortex corticospinal neurons that replicate in vitro dynamics, including hyperpolarization-induced sag and realistic firing patterns. Models demonstrated resonance in response to synaptic stimulation, with resonance frequency increasing in apical dendrites with increasing distance from soma, matching the increasing oscillation frequencies spanning deep to superficial cortical layers. This gradient may enable specific corticospinal neuron dendrites to entrain to relevant oscillations in different cortical layers, contributing to appropriate motor output commands.
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- Samuel A Neymotin
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York;
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
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- Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.,Department of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.,Department of Neurology, Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York; and.,The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, Brooklyn, New York
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Almog M, Korngreen A. Is realistic neuronal modeling realistic? J Neurophysiol 2016; 116:2180-2209. [PMID: 27535372 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00360.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Scientific models are abstractions that aim to explain natural phenomena. A successful model shows how a complex phenomenon arises from relatively simple principles while preserving major physical or biological rules and predicting novel experiments. A model should not be a facsimile of reality; it is an aid for understanding it. Contrary to this basic premise, with the 21st century has come a surge in computational efforts to model biological processes in great detail. Here we discuss the oxymoronic, realistic modeling of single neurons. This rapidly advancing field is driven by the discovery that some neurons don't merely sum their inputs and fire if the sum exceeds some threshold. Thus researchers have asked what are the computational abilities of single neurons and attempted to give answers using realistic models. We briefly review the state of the art of compartmental modeling highlighting recent progress and intrinsic flaws. We then attempt to address two fundamental questions. Practically, can we realistically model single neurons? Philosophically, should we realistically model single neurons? We use layer 5 neocortical pyramidal neurons as a test case to examine these issues. We subject three publically available models of layer 5 pyramidal neurons to three simple computational challenges. Based on their performance and a partial survey of published models, we conclude that current compartmental models are ad hoc, unrealistic models functioning poorly once they are stretched beyond the specific problems for which they were designed. We then attempt to plot possible paths for generating realistic single neuron models.
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- Mara Almog
- The Leslie and Susan Gonda Interdisciplinary Brain Research Centre, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; and.,The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Leslie and Susan Gonda Interdisciplinary Brain Research Centre, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; and .,The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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The Bogdanov–Takens Normal Form: A Minimal Model for Single Neuron Dynamics. ENTROPY 2015. [DOI: 10.3390/e17127850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Neymotin SA, McDougal RA, Sherif MA, Fall CP, Hines ML, Lytton WW. Neuronal calcium wave propagation varies with changes in endoplasmic reticulum parameters: a computer model. Neural Comput 2015; 27:898-924. [PMID: 25734493 PMCID: PMC4386758 DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_00712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Calcium (Ca²⁺) waves provide a complement to neuronal electrical signaling, forming a key part of a neuron's second messenger system. We developed a reaction-diffusion model of an apical dendrite with diffusible inositol triphosphate (IP₃), diffusible Ca²⁺, IP₃ receptors (IP₃Rs), endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca²⁺ leak, and ER pump (SERCA) on ER. Ca²⁺ is released from ER stores via IP₃Rs upon binding of IP₃ and Ca²⁺. This results in Ca²⁺-induced-Ca²⁺-release (CICR) and increases Ca²⁺ spread. At least two modes of Ca²⁺ wave spread have been suggested: a continuous mode based on presumed relative homogeneity of ER within the cell and a pseudo-saltatory model where Ca²⁺ regeneration occurs at discrete points with diffusion between them. We compared the effects of three patterns of hypothesized IP₃R distribution: (1) continuous homogeneous ER, (2) hotspots with increased IP₃R density (IP₃R hotspots), and (3) areas of increased ER density (ER stacks). All three modes produced Ca²⁺ waves with velocities similar to those measured in vitro (approximately 50-90 μm /sec). Continuous ER showed high sensitivity to IP₃R density increases, with time to onset reduced and speed increased. Increases in SERCA density resulted in opposite effects. The measures were sensitive to changes in density and spacing of IP₃R hotspots and stacks. Increasing the apparent diffusion coefficient of Ca²⁺ substantially increased wave speed. An extended electrochemical model, including voltage-gated calcium channels and AMPA synapses, demonstrated that membrane priming via AMPA stimulation enhances subsequent Ca²⁺ wave amplitude and duration. Our modeling suggests that pharmacological targeting of IP₃Rs and SERCA could allow modulation of Ca²⁺ wave propagation in diseases where Ca²⁺ dysregulation has been implicated.
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- Samuel A Neymotin
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, and Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, U.S.A.
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Dura-Bernal S, Chadderdon GL, Neymotin SA, Francis JT, Lytton WW. Towards a real-time interface between a biomimetic model of sensorimotor cortex and a robotic arm. Pattern Recognit Lett 2014; 36:204-212. [PMID: 26709323 DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2013.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Brain-machine interfaces can greatly improve the performance of prosthetics. Utilizing biomimetic neuronal modeling in brain machine interfaces (BMI) offers the possibility of providing naturalistic motor-control algorithms for control of a robotic limb. This will allow finer control of a robot, while also giving us new tools to better understand the brain's use of electrical signals. However, the biomimetic approach presents challenges in integrating technologies across multiple hardware and software platforms, so that the different components can communicate in real-time. We present the first steps in an ongoing effort to integrate a biomimetic spiking neuronal model of motor learning with a robotic arm. The biomimetic model (BMM) was used to drive a simple kinematic two-joint virtual arm in a motor task requiring trial-and-error convergence on a single target. We utilized the output of this model in real time to drive mirroring motion of a Barrett Technology WAM robotic arm through a user datagram protocol (UDP) interface. The robotic arm sent back information on its joint positions, which was then used by a visualization tool on the remote computer to display a realistic 3D virtual model of the moving robotic arm in real time. This work paves the way towards a full closed-loop biomimetic brain-effector system that can be incorporated in a neural decoder for prosthetic control, to be used as a platform for developing biomimetic learning algorithms for controlling real-time devices.
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- Salvador Dura-Bernal
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, USA ; Department of Neurology, State University New York Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, USA ; Department of Neurology, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Neymotin SA, Chadderdon GL, Kerr CC, Francis JT, Lytton WW. Reinforcement learning of two-joint virtual arm reaching in a computer model of sensorimotor cortex. Neural Comput 2013; 25:3263-93. [PMID: 24047323 DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_00521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Neocortical mechanisms of learning sensorimotor control involve a complex series of interactions at multiple levels, from synaptic mechanisms to cellular dynamics to network connectomics. We developed a model of sensory and motor neocortex consisting of 704 spiking model neurons. Sensory and motor populations included excitatory cells and two types of interneurons. Neurons were interconnected with AMPA/NMDA and GABAA synapses. We trained our model using spike-timing-dependent reinforcement learning to control a two-joint virtual arm to reach to a fixed target. For each of 125 trained networks, we used 200 training sessions, each involving 15 s reaches to the target from 16 starting positions. Learning altered network dynamics, with enhancements to neuronal synchrony and behaviorally relevant information flow between neurons. After learning, networks demonstrated retention of behaviorally relevant memories by using proprioceptive information to perform reach-to-target from multiple starting positions. Networks dynamically controlled which joint rotations to use to reach a target, depending on current arm position. Learning-dependent network reorganization was evident in both sensory and motor populations: learned synaptic weights showed target-specific patterning optimized for particular reach movements. Our model embodies an integrative hypothesis of sensorimotor cortical learning that could be used to interpret future electrophysiological data recorded in vivo from sensorimotor learning experiments. We used our model to make the following predictions: learning enhances synchrony in neuronal populations and behaviorally relevant information flow across neuronal populations, enhanced sensory processing aids task-relevant motor performance and the relative ease of a particular movement in vivo depends on the amount of sensory information required to complete the movement.
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- Samuel A Neymotin
- Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, U.S.A., and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY 11203, U.S.A.
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Crook SM, Bednar JA, Berger S, Cannon R, Davison AP, Djurfeldt M, Eppler J, Kriener B, Furber S, Graham B, Plesser HE, Schwabe L, Smith L, Steuber V, van Albada S. Creating, documenting and sharing network models. NETWORK (BRISTOL, ENGLAND) 2012; 23:131-149. [PMID: 22994683 DOI: 10.3109/0954898x.2012.722743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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As computational neuroscience matures, many simulation environments are available that are useful for neuronal network modeling. However, methods for successfully documenting models for publication and for exchanging models and model components among these projects are still under development. Here we briefly review existing software and applications for network model creation, documentation and exchange. Then we discuss a few of the larger issues facing the field of computational neuroscience regarding network modeling and suggest solutions to some of these problems, concentrating in particular on standardized network model terminology, notation, and descriptions and explicit documentation of model scaling. We hope this will enable and encourage computational neuroscientists to share their models more systematically in the future.
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- Sharon M Crook
- School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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Neuroinformatics seeks to create and maintain web-accessible databases of experimental and computational data, together with innovative software tools, essential for understanding the nervous system in its normal function and in neurological disorders. Neuroinformatics includes traditional bioinformatics of gene and protein sequences in the brain; atlases of brain anatomy and localization of genes and proteins; imaging of brain cells; brain imaging by positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG) and other methods; many electrophysiological recording methods; and clinical neurological data, among others. Building neuroinformatics databases and tools presents difficult challenges because they span a wide range of spatial scales and types of data stored and analyzed. Traditional bioinformatics, by comparison, focuses primarily on genomic and proteomic data (which of course also presents difficult challenges). Much of bioinformatics analysis focus on sequences (DNA, RNA, and protein molecules), as the type of data that are stored, compared, and sometimes modeled. Bioinformatics is undergoing explosive growth with the addition, for example, of databases that catalog interactions between proteins, of databases that track the evolution of genes, and of systems biology databases which contain models of all aspects of organisms. This commentary briefly reviews neuroinformatics with clarification of its relationship to traditional and modern bioinformatics.
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- Thomas M Morse
- Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 336 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
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Calin-Jageman RJ, Tunstall MJ, Mensh BD, Katz PS, Frost WN. Parameter space analysis suggests multi-site plasticity contributes to motor pattern initiation in Tritonia. J Neurophysiol 2007; 98:2382-98. [PMID: 17652417 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00572.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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This research examines the mechanisms that initiate rhythmic activity in the episodic central pattern generator (CPG) underlying escape swimming in the gastropod mollusk Tritonia diomedea. Activation of the network is triggered by extrinsic excitatory input but also accompanied by intrinsic neuromodulation and the recruitment of additional excitation into the circuit. To examine how these factors influence circuit activation, a detailed simulation of the unmodulated CPG network was constructed from an extensive set of physiological measurements. In this model, extrinsic input alone is insufficient to initiate rhythmic activity, confirming that additional processes are involved in circuit activation. However, incorporating known neuromodulatory and polysynaptic effects into the model still failed to enable rhythmic activity, suggesting that additional circuit features are also required. To delineate the additional activation requirements, a large-scale parameter-space analysis was conducted (~2 x 10(6) configurations). The results suggest that initiation of the swim motor pattern requires substantial reconfiguration at multiple sites within the network, especially to recruit ventral swim interneuron-B (VSI) activity and increase coupling between the dorsal swim interneurons (DSIs) and cerebral neuron 2 (C2) coupling. Within the parameter space examined, we observed a tendency for rhythmic activity to be spontaneous and self-sustaining. This suggests that initiation of episodic rhythmic activity may involve temporarily restructuring a nonrhythmic network into a persistent oscillator. In particular, the time course of neuromodulatory effects may control both activation and termination of rhythmic bursting.
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Crasto CJ, Marenco LN, Liu N, Morse TM, Cheung KH, Lai PC, Bahl G, Masiar P, Lam HYK, Lim E, Chen H, Nadkarni P, Migliore M, Miller PL, Shepherd GM. SenseLab: new developments in disseminating neuroscience information. Brief Bioinform 2007; 8:150-62. [PMID: 17510162 PMCID: PMC2756159 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbm018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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This article presents the latest developments in neuroscience information dissemination through the SenseLab suite of databases: NeuronDB, CellPropDB, ORDB, OdorDB, OdorMapDB, ModelDB and BrainPharm. These databases include information related to: (i) neuronal membrane properties and neuronal models, and (ii) genetics, genomics, proteomics and imaging studies of the olfactory system. We describe here: the new features for each database, the evolution of SenseLab's unifying database architecture and instances of SenseLab database interoperation with other neuroscience online resources.
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- Chiquito J Crasto
- Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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Migliore M, Morse TM, Davison AP, Marenco L, Shepherd GM, Hines ML. ModelDB: making models publicly accessible to support computational neuroscience. Neuroinformatics 2004; 1:135-9. [PMID: 15055399 PMCID: PMC3728921 DOI: 10.1385/ni:1:1:135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Brain atlases are equivalent to neuroimage databases provided an appropriate coordinate system to enable multisubject comparisons, along with comprehensive descriptions of the data, are included. Warping tools, visualization, and statistical analyses that accommodate the various neuroimaging modalities can be used to integrate diverse data and form comprehensive maps describing a particular subpopulation's brain structure and function. By linking task performance and genetic information to brain morphology, complex interrelations between genotype, phenotype, and behavior can be established. Several examples of these multimodal, multisubject atlases, including those that are dynamic, are presented.
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- Arthur W Toga
- Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095-1769, USA.
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- Arthur W Toga
- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, Reed Neurological Research Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095-1769, USA.
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Goddard NH, Hucka M, Howell F, Cornelis H, Shankar K, Beeman D. Towards NeuroML: model description methods for collaborative modelling in neuroscience. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2001; 356:1209-28. [PMID: 11545699 PMCID: PMC1088511 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2001.0910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Biological nervous systems and the mechanisms underlying their operation exhibit astonishing complexity. Computational models of these systems have been correspondingly complex. As these models become ever more sophisticated, they become increasingly difficult to define, comprehend, manage and communicate. Consequently, for scientific understanding of biological nervous systems to progress, it is crucial for modellers to have software tools that support discussion, development and exchange of computational models. We describe methodologies that focus on these tasks, improving the ability of neuroscientists to engage in the modelling process. We report our findings on the requirements for these tools and discuss the use of declarative forms of model description--equivalent to object-oriented classes and database schema--which we call templates. We introduce NeuroML, a mark-up language for the neurosciences which is defined syntactically using templates, and its specific component intended as a common format for communication between modelling-related tools. Finally, we propose a template hierarchy for this modelling component of NeuroML, sufficient for describing models ranging in structural levels from neuron cell membranes to neural networks. These templates support both a framework for user-level interaction with models, and a high-performance framework for efficient simulation of the models.
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- N H Goddard
- Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, Scotland.
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Miller PL, Nadkarni P, Singer M, Marenco L, Hines M, Shepherd G. Integration of multidisciplinary sensory data: a pilot model of the human brain project approach. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2001; 8:34-48. [PMID: 11141511 PMCID: PMC134590 DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2001.0080034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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The paper provides an overview of neuroinformatics research at Yale University being performed as part of the national Human Brain Project. This research is exploring the integration of multidisciplinary sensory data, using the olfactory system as a model domain. The neuroinformatics activities fall into three main areas: 1) building databases and related tools that support experimental olfactory research at Yale and can also serve as resources for the field as a whole, 2) using computer models (molecular models and neuronal models) to help understand data being collected experimentally and to help guide further laboratory experiments, 3) performing basic neuroinformatics research to develop new informatics technologies, including a flexible data model (EAV/CR, entity-attribute-value with classes and relationships) designed to facilitate the integration of diverse heterogeneous data within a single unifying framework.
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- P L Miller
- Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8009, USA.
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Diallo B, Dolidon F, Travere J, Mazoyer B. B-SPID: an object-relational database architecture to store, retrieve, and manipulate neuroimaging data. Hum Brain Mapp 1999; 7:136-50. [PMID: 9950070 PMCID: PMC6873298 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0193(1999)7:2<136::aid-hbm6>3.0.co;2-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We propose a hardware and software architecture to respond to crucial problems in the neuroimaging field: storage, retrieval, and processing of large datasets. The B-SPID project, here discussed, concerns the processing of neuroimages and attached components stored in an object-relational multimedia database management system (DBMS). Advanced bioinformation concepts are exploited in this project such as large scale data storage, high level graphical user interfaces and 3D graphical processing and display of data. Our database implementation is based on standard programming components, runs on several UNIX platforms and is written to be evolutive. Queries on this database are designed to obtain and display from neuroimaging data several types of results (pictures, text, or 3D graphical shapes) on heterogeneous systems.
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- Barrou Diallo
- Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle UPRES EA‐2127, Université de Caen & CEA LRC no 13, France
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- Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle UPRES EA‐2127, Université de Caen & CEA LRC no 13, France
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- Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle UPRES EA‐2127, Université de Caen & CEA LRC no 13, France
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- Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle UPRES EA‐2127, Université de Caen & CEA LRC no 13, France
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Nadkarni PM, Marenco L, Chen R, Skoufos E, Shepherd G, Miller P. Organization of heterogeneous scientific data using the EAV/CR representation. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1999; 6:478-93. [PMID: 10579606 PMCID: PMC61391 DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Entity-attribute-value (EAV) representation is a means of organizing highly heterogeneous data using a relatively simple physical database schema. EAV representation is widely used in the medical domain, most notably in the storage of data related to clinical patient records. Its potential strengths suggest its use in other biomedical areas, in particular research databases whose schemas are complex as well as constantly changing to reflect evolving knowledge in rapidly advancing scientific domains. When deployed for such purposes, the basic EAV representation needs to be augmented significantly to handle the modeling of complex objects (classes) as well as to manage interobject relationships. The authors refer to their modification of the basic EAV paradigm as EAV/CR (EAV with classes and relationships). They describe EAV/CR representation with examples from two biomedical databases that use it.
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- P M Nadkarni
- Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8009, USA.
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Marenco L, Nadkarni P, Skoufos E, Shepherd G, Miller P. Neuronal database integration: the Senselab EAV data model. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:102-6. [PMID: 10566329 PMCID: PMC2232788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023] Open
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We discuss an approach towards integrating heterogeneous nervous system data using an augmented Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) schema design. This approach, widely used in implementing electronic patient record systems (EPRSs), allows the physical schema of the database to be relatively immune to changes in domain knowledge. This is because new kinds of facts are added as data (or as metadata) rather than hard-coded as the names of newly created tables or columns. Because the domain knowledge is stored as metadata, a framework developed in one scientific domain can be ported to another with only modest revision. We describe our progress in creating a code framework that handles browsing and hyperlinking of the different kinds of data.
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- L Marenco
- Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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