Publications by Giuseppe Chindemi

Assemblies, synapse clustering and network topology interact with plasticity to explain structure-function relationships of the cortical connectome

Eilif Benjamin Muller, Michael Reimann, James Gonzalo King, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Giuseppe Chindemi, András Ecker, Sirio Bolaños Puchet, James Bryden Isbister, Daniela Egas Santander

Synaptic plasticity underlies the brain’s ability to learn and adapt. While experiments in brain slices have revealed mechanisms and protocols for the induction of plasticity between pairs of neurons, how these synaptic changes are coordinated in biologica ...

2024

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

A calcium-based plasticity model for predicting long-term potentiation and depression in the neocortex

Henry Markram, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Rodrigo de Campos Perin, James Gonzalo King, Vincent Delattre, Mustafa Anil Tuncel, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Giuseppe Chindemi

Pyramidal cells (PCs) form the backbone of the layered structure of the neocortex, and plasticity of their synapses is thought to underlie learning in the brain. However, such long-term synaptic changes have been experimentally characterized between only a ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Estimating the Readily-Releasable Vesicle Pool Size at Synaptic Connections in the Neocortex

Henry Markram, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Rodrigo de Campos Perin, Giuseppe Chindemi, Natali Barros Zulaica

Previous studies based on the 'Quantal Model' for synaptic transmission suggest that neurotransmitter release is mediated by a single release site at individual synaptic contacts in the neocortex. However, recent studies seem to contradict this hypothesis ...

2019

Towards a unified understanding of synaptic plasticity : parsimonious modeling and simulation of the glutamatergic synapse life-cycle

Giuseppe Chindemi

Understanding how learning and memory formation work in the brain is a major challenge in neuroscience, with important implications for many other fields, including medicine and industry. It is nowadays widely accepted that synaptic plasticity is the biolo ...

EPFL2018

Timed Synaptic Inhibition Shapes NMDA Spikes, Influencing Local Dendritic Processing and Global I/O Properties of Cortical Neurons

Henry Markram, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Idan Segev, Giuseppe Chindemi, Michael Doron

The NMDA spike is a long-lasting nonlinear phenomenon initiated locally in the dendritic branches of a variety of cortical neurons. It plays a key role in synaptic plasticity and in single-neuron computations. Combining dynamic system theory and computatio ...

2017

Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function

Henry Markram, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Rodrigo de Campos Perin, Michael Reimann, Giuseppe Chindemi, Martina Scolamiero, Max Christian Nolte, Ran Levi, Katharine Felicity Turner, Pawel Tadeusz Dlotko

The lack of a formal link between neural network structure and its emergent function has hampered our understanding of how the brain processes information. We have now come closer to describing such a link by taking the direction of synaptic transmission i ...

Frontiers Media Sa2017

BluePyOpt: Leveraging Open Source Software and Cloud Infrastructure to Optimise Model Parameters in Neuroscience

Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Idan Segev, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Giuseppe Chindemi, Michael Emiel Gevaert

At many scales in neuroscience, appropriate mathematical models take the form of complex dynamical systems. Parametrising such models to conform to the multitude of available experimental constraints is a global nonlinear optimisation problem with a comple ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2016

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

The neocortical microcircuit collaboration portal: a resource for rat somatosensory cortex

Henry Markram, Sean Lewis Hill, Lida Kanari, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Ying Shi, Rajnish Ranjan, Michael Reimann, Felix Schürmann, James Gonzalo King

We have established a multi-constraint, data-driven process to digitally reconstruct, and simulate prototypical neocortical microcircuitry, using sparse experimental data. We applied this process to reconstruct the microcircuitry of the somatosensory corte ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015