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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2020

Illuminating dendritic function with computational models.

Panayiota Poirazi, Athanasia Papoutsi

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

102 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Tuft Dendrite Spikes Are Accompanied by Selective Input From Distinct Functional Networks.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  17. A Neural Model for V1 That Incorporates Dendritic Nonlinearities and Backpropagating Action Potentials.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  18. Synergistic Reinforcement Learning by Cooperation of the Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Panayiota PoiraziInstitute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. poirazi@imbb.forth.gr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-595X
Athanasia PapoutsiInstitute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dendrites have always fascinated researchers: from the artistic drawings by Ramon y Cajal to the beautiful recordings of today, neuroscientists have been striving to unravel the mysteries of these structures. Theoretical work in the 1960s predicted important dendritic effects on neuronal processing, establishing computational modelling as a powerful technique for their investigation. Since then, modelling of dendrites has been instrumental in driving neuroscience research in a targeted manner, providing experimentally testable predictions that range from the subcellular level to the systems level, and their relevance extends to fields beyond neuroscience, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. Validation of modelling predictions often requires - and drives - new technological advances, thus closing the loop with theory-driven experimentation that moves the field forward. This Review features the most important, to our understanding, contributions of modelling of dendritic computations, including those pending experimental verification, and highlights studies of successful interactions between the modelling and experimental neuroscience communities.

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Models, NeurologicalAnimalsDendritesHumansNeurosciences

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