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Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry

Anastasia Ailamaki, Henry Markram, Sean Lewis Hill, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Rodrigo de Campos Perin, Lida Kanari, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Vincent Delattre, Michael Reimann, Ying Shi

We present a first-draft digital reconstruction of the microcircuitry of somatosensory cortex of juvenile rat. The reconstruction uses cellular and synaptic organizing principles to algorithmically reconstruct detailed anatomy and physiology from sparse ex ...

Elsevier2015

Statistical connectivity provides a sufficient foundation for specific functional connectivity in neocortical neural microcircuits

Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Yun Wang, Imad Riachi

It is well-established that synapse formation involves highly selective chemospecific mechanisms, but how neuron arbors are positioned before synapse formation remains unclear. Using 3D reconstructions of 298 neocortical cells of different types (including ...

Natl Acad Sciences2012

Emergent Connectivity Principles in the Neocortex

Imad Riachi

The neocortex makes up over 80% of the mammalian brain and is responsible for higher cognitive functions, processing of sensory inputs and orchestration of complex motor outputs. It is a 6-layered structure composed of billions of morphologically and elect ...

EPFL2010

Enhanced long-term microcircuit plasticity in the valproic Acid animal model of autism

Henry Markram, Kamila Markram, Tania Rinaldi, Jean-Vincent Le Bé, Imad Riachi, Guilherme Silva

A single intra-peritoneal injection of valproic acid (VPA) on embryonic day (ED) 11.5 to pregnant rats has been shown to produce severe autistic-like symptoms in the offspring. Previous studies showed that the microcircuitry is hyperreactive due to hyperco ...

2009

Cooperative Learning for Very Long Learning Tasks: A Society Inspired Approach to Persistence of Knowledge

Roland Siegwart, Masoud Asadpour, Imad Riachi

2005