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ArticleFrontiers in systems neuroscience2018

Axon Collaterals and Brain States.

Kathleen S Rockland

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Article in Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2018. 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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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Antagonistic Activities of Fmn2 and ADF Regulate Axonal F-Actin Patch Dynamics and the Initiation of Collateral Branching.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  19. Corticocortical Systems Underlying High-Order Motor Control.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Kathleen S RocklandDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.

Funding

Regional diversity of cortical white matter neurons in adult and infant rhesus monkeyR21MH107456 · NIMH · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI ROCKLAND, KATHLEEN · 2015 to 2016
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NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH107456
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple mechanisms have been identified as relevant to plasticity, functional stability, and reliable processing across brain states. In the context of stability under "ever-changing conditions" (this Topic), the role of axons has been relatively under-investigated. The highly branched topologies of many axons, however, seem well designed to differentially recruit and regulate distributed postsynaptic groups, possibly in a state-dependent fashion. In this Perspective, I briefly discuss several examples of axon collateralization, and then some of the branch-specific features that might subserve differential recruitment and whole brain activation. An emerging principle is that the number of collaterals and number of target structures are not stereotyped. Rather, axons originating from one defined source typically send branches to diversified subsets of target areas. This could achieve heterogeneous inputs, with different degrees of synchronicity. Variability of neuronal responses has been suggested as inversely proportional to the degree of temporally correlated input. Increased input homogeneity, driven by sensory stimulation or behavioral conditions, is reported to reduce neuronal variability, with axon collateralization potentially having an important role.

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axon branchingaxon topologyconduction velocitydistributed processingintrinsic collateralsMeynert neuronssynchronicity

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PMID30065635
PMCPMC6056639

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