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ArticleNature communications2017

Modeling somatic and dendritic spike mediated plasticity at the single neuron and network level.

Jacopo Bono, Claudia Clopath

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 105 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jacopo BonoDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Claudia ClopathDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK. c.clopath@imperial.ac.uk.
Imperial College London · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilWellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synaptic plasticity is thought to be the principal neuronal mechanism underlying learning. Models of plastic networks typically combine point neurons with spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) as the learning rule. However, a point neuron does not capture the local non-linear processing of synaptic inputs allowed for by dendrites. Furthermore, experimental evidence suggests that STDP is not the only learning rule available to neurons. By implementing biophysically realistic neuron models, we study how dendrites enable multiple synaptic plasticity mechanisms to coexist in a single cell. In these models, we compare the conditions for STDP and for synaptic strengthening by local dendritic spikes. We also explore how the connectivity between two cells is affected by these plasticity rules and by different synaptic distributions. Finally, we show that how memory retention during associative learning can be prolonged in networks of neurons by including dendrites.Synaptic plasticity is the neuronal mechanism underlying learning. Here the authors construct biophysical models of pyramidal neurons that reproduce observed plasticity gradients along the dendrite and show that dendritic spike dependent LTP which is predominant in distal sections can prolong memory retention.

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Action PotentialsModels, BiologicalNeuronal PlasticityAssociation LearningDendritesHumansMemoryNerve Net

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PMID28951585
PMCPMC5615054
OpenAlexW2753962205

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