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A multiscale electro-metabolic model of a rat neocortical circuit reveals the impact of ageing on central cortical layers

Henry Markram, James Gonzalo King, Daniel Keller, James Bryden Isbister, Polina Shichkova, Darshan Mandge, Alessandro Cattabiani

The high energetic demands of the brain arise primarily from neuronal activity. Neurons consume substantial energy to transmit information as electrical signals and maintain their resting membrane potential. These energetic requirements are met by the neur ...

Public Library of Science (PLoS)2025

Seizure and redox rescue in a model of glucose transport deficiency

Henry Markram, Daniel Keller, Polina Shichkova

Disruptions of energy supply to the brain are associated with many neurodegenerative pathologies and are difficult to study due to numerous interlinked metabolic pathways. We explored the effects of diminished energy supply on brain metabolism using a comp ...

2025

Of mice and men: Dendritic architecture differentiates human from mouse neuronal networks

Henry Markram, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Rodrigo de Campos Perin, Lida Kanari, Ying Shi, Julie Meystre, Alexis Arnaudon, Maurizio Ferdinando Pezzoli, Natali Barros Zulaica

The organizational principles that distinguish the human brain from other species have been a long-standing enigma in neuroscience. Focusing on the uniquely evolved human cortical layers 2 and 3, we computationally reconstruct the cortical architecture for ...

2025

Computational Generation of Long-range Axonal Morphologies

Henry Markram, Lida Kanari

Long-range axons are fundamental to brain connectivity and functional organization, enabling communication between different brain regions. Recent advances in experimental techniques have yielded a substantial number of whole-brain axonal reconstructions. ...

HUMANA PRESS INC2025

Fear learning induces synaptic potentiation between engram neurons in the rat lateral amygdala

Henry Markram, Rodrigo de Campos Perin

The lateral amygdala (LA) encodes fear memories by potentiating sensory inputs associated with threats and, in the process, recruits 10-30% of its neurons per fear memory engram. However, how the local network within the LA processes this information and w ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A multi-modal fitting approach to construct single-neuron models with patch clamp and high-density microelectrode arrays

Henry Markram, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Tanguy Pierre Louis Damart, Darshan Mandge, Mickael Maurice Zbili, Aurélien Tristan Jaquier

In computational neuroscience, multicompartment models are among the most biophysically realistic representations of single neurons. Constructing such models usually involves the use of the patch-clamp technique to record somatic voltage signals under diff ...

2024

Modeling and Simulation of Neocortical Micro- and Mesocircuitry. Part I: Anatomy

Henry Markram, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Michael Reimann, James Gonzalo King, Lida Kanari, Ying Shi, Armando Romani, Adrien Michel Achille Devresse

The function of the neocortex is fundamentally determined by its repeating microcircuit motif, but also by its rich, hierarchical, interregional structure with a highly specific laminar architecture. The last decade has seen the emergence of extensive new ...

2024

Structural and molecular characterization of astrocyte and vasculature connectivity in the mouse hippocampus and cortex

Henry Markram, Giovanna Ambrosini, Romain Guiet, Nicolas René Chiaruttini, Daniel Keller, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Elvis Boci

The relation of astrocytic endfeet to the vasculature plays a key functional role in the neuro‐glia‐vasculature unit. We characterize the spatial organization of astrocytes and the structural aspects that facilitate their involvement in molecular exchanges ...

Wiley2024

Modeling and simulation of neocortical micro- and mesocircuitry. Part II: Physiology and experimentation

Henry Markram, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Michael Reimann, James Gonzalo King, Rajnish Ranjan, Armando Romani, Mustafa Anil Tuncel, Aleksandra Zuzanna Teska, Polina Litvak

Cortical dynamics underlie many cognitive processes and emerge from complex multi-scale interactions, which are challenging to study in vivo. Large-scale, biophysically detailed models offer a tool which can complement laboratory approaches. We present a m ...

2024

Community-based reconstruction and simulation of a full-scale model of region CA1 of rat hippocampus

Henry Markram, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Michael Reimann, James Gonzalo King, Lida Kanari, Ying Shi, Armando Romani, Davide Bella, Felix Schürmann

The CA1 region of the hippocampus is one of the most studied regions of the rodent brain, thought to play an important role in cognitive functions such as memory and spatial navigation. Despite a wealth of experimental data on its structure and function, i ...

2024