The modeling of extended microcircuits is emerging as an effective tool to simulate the neurophysiological correlates of brain activity and to investigate brain dysfunctions. However, for specific networks, a realistic modeling approach based on the combination of available physiological, morphological and anatomical data is still an open issue. One of the main problems in the generation of realistic networks lies in the strategy adopted to build network connectivity. Here we propose a method to implement a neuronal network at single cell resolution by using the geometrical probability volumes associated with pre- and postsynaptic neurites. This allows us to build a network with plausible connectivity properties without the explicit use of computationally intensive touch detection algorithms using full 3D neuron reconstructions. The method has been benchmarked for the mouse hippocampus CA1 area, and the results show that this approach is able to generate full-scale brain networks at single cell resolution that are in good agreement with experimental findings. This geometric reconstruction of axonal and dendritic occupancy, by effectively reflecting morphological and anatomical constraints, could be integrated into structured simulators generating entire circuits of different brain areas facilitating the simulation of different brain regions with realistic models.

A realistic morpho-anatomical connection strategy for modelling full-scale point-neuron microcircuits / Gandolfi, Daniela; Mapelli, Jonathan; Solinas, Sergio; De Schepper, Robin; Geminiani, Alice; Casellato, Claudia; D'Angelo, Egidio; Migliore, Michele. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 12:1(2022), pp. 13864-13881. [10.1038/s41598-022-18024-y]

A realistic morpho-anatomical connection strategy for modelling full-scale point-neuron microcircuits

Gandolfi, Daniela
;
Mapelli, Jonathan
;
Solinas, Sergio;
2022

Abstract

The modeling of extended microcircuits is emerging as an effective tool to simulate the neurophysiological correlates of brain activity and to investigate brain dysfunctions. However, for specific networks, a realistic modeling approach based on the combination of available physiological, morphological and anatomical data is still an open issue. One of the main problems in the generation of realistic networks lies in the strategy adopted to build network connectivity. Here we propose a method to implement a neuronal network at single cell resolution by using the geometrical probability volumes associated with pre- and postsynaptic neurites. This allows us to build a network with plausible connectivity properties without the explicit use of computationally intensive touch detection algorithms using full 3D neuron reconstructions. The method has been benchmarked for the mouse hippocampus CA1 area, and the results show that this approach is able to generate full-scale brain networks at single cell resolution that are in good agreement with experimental findings. This geometric reconstruction of axonal and dendritic occupancy, by effectively reflecting morphological and anatomical constraints, could be integrated into structured simulators generating entire circuits of different brain areas facilitating the simulation of different brain regions with realistic models.
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A realistic morpho-anatomical connection strategy for modelling full-scale point-neuron microcircuits / Gandolfi, Daniela; Mapelli, Jonathan; Solinas, Sergio; De Schepper, Robin; Geminiani, Alice; Casellato, Claudia; D'Angelo, Egidio; Migliore, Michele. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 12:1(2022), pp. 13864-13881. [10.1038/s41598-022-18024-y]
Gandolfi, Daniela; Mapelli, Jonathan; Solinas, Sergio; De Schepper, Robin; Geminiani, Alice; Casellato, Claudia; D'Angelo, Egidio; Migliore, Michele...espandi
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