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In search of a periodic table of the neurons: Axonal-dendritic circuitry as the organizing principle: Patterns of axons and dendrites within distinct anatomical parcels provide the blueprint for circuit-based neuronal classification.
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- Organization and Community Usage of a Neuron Type Circuitry Knowledge Base of the Hippocampal Formation.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Formation and retrieval of cell assemblies in a biologically realistic spiking neural network model of area CA3 in the mouse hippocampus.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2024Article
- Formation and Retrieval of Cell Assemblies in a Biologically Realistic Spiking Neural Network Model of Area CA3 in the Mouse Hippocampus.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Hippocampome.org v2.0: a knowledge base enabling data-driven spiking neural network simulations of rodent hippocampal circuits.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Combinatorial quantification of distinct neural projections from retrograde tracing.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Robust Resting-State Dynamics in a Large-Scale Spiking Neural Network Model of Area CA3 in the Mouse Hippocampus.Cognitive computation · 2023Article
- Normalized unitary synaptic signaling of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex predicted by deep learning of experimental recordings.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Quantitative neuronal morphometry by supervised and unsupervised learning.STAR protocols · 2021Article
- An update to Hippocampome.org by integrating single-cell phenotypes with circuit function in vivo.PLoS biology · 2021Article
- Operations Research Methods for Estimating the Population Size of Neuron Types.Annals of operations research · 2020Article
- Anatomically revealed morphological patterns of pyramidal neurons in layer 5 of the motor cortex.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The evolution of brain structure captured in stereotyped cell count and cell type distributions.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2020Review
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- The diversity of GABAergic neurons and neural communication elements.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2019Review
- Genetic Single Neuron Anatomy Reveals Fine Granularity of Cortical Axo-Axonic Cells.Cell reports · 2019Article
- Neuron Names: A Gene- and Property-Based Name Format, With Special Reference to Cortical Neurons.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2019Article
- Weighing the Evidence in Peters' Rule: Does Neuronal Morphology Predict Connectivity?Trends in neurosciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
No one knows yet how to organize, in a simple yet predictive form, the knowledge concerning the anatomical, biophysical, and molecular properties of neurons that are accumulating in thousands of publications every year. The situation is not dissimilar to the state of Chemistry prior to Mendeleev's tabulation of the elements. We propose that the patterns of presence or absence of axons and dendrites within known anatomical parcels may serve as the key principle to define neuron types. Just as the positions of the elements in the periodic table indicate their potential to combine into molecules, axonal and dendritic distributions provide the blueprint for network connectivity. Furthermore, among the features commonly employed to describe neurons, morphology is considerably robust to experimental conditions. At the same time, this core classification scheme is suitable for aggregating biochemical, physiological, and synaptic information.
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