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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2006

Complexities and uncertainties of neuronal network function.

David Parker

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Two views on the cognitive brain.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2021
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  8. The generation of antiphase oscillations and synchrony by a rebound-based vertebrate central pattern generator.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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  14. Shining light into the black box of spinal locomotor networks.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2010
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  15. Neuronal network analyses: premises, promises and uncertainties.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2010
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  17. Exciting times in the tadpole spinal cord.The Journal of physiology · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

David ParkerDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK. djp27@cam.ac.uk

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nervous system generates behaviours through the activity in groups of neurons assembled into networks. Understanding these networks is thus essential to our understanding of nervous system function. Understanding a network requires information on its component cells, their interactions and their functional properties. Few networks come close to providing complete information on these aspects. However, even if complete information were available it would still only provide limited insight into network function. This is because the functional and structural properties of a network are not fixed but are plastic and can change over time. The number of interacting network components, their (variable) functional properties, and various plasticity mechanisms endows networks with considerable flexibility, but these features inevitably complicate network analyses. This review will initially discuss the general approaches and problems of network analyses. It will then examine the success of these analyses in a model spinal cord locomotor network in the lamprey, to determine to what extent in this relatively simple vertebrate system it is possible to claim detailed understanding of network function and plasticity.

Indexed as

AnimalsNerve NetNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsUncertainty

Identifiers

PMID16553310
PMCPMC1626546

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