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ArticleNature communications2021

Cellular connectomes as arbiters of local circuit models in the cerebral cortex.

Emmanuel Klinger, Alessandro Motta, Carsten Marr, Fabian J Theis, Moritz Helmstaedter

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emmanuel KlingerDepartment of Connectomics, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany.
Alessandro MottaDepartment of Connectomics, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9602-6066
Carsten MarrHelmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Computational Biology, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2154-4552
Fabian J TheisHelmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Computational Biology, Neuherberg, Germany. fabian.theis@helmholtz-muenchen.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2419-1943
Moritz HelmstaedterDepartment of Connectomics, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany. mh@brain.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7973-0767
Helmholtz Zentrum München · DEMax Planck Institute for Brain Research · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the availability of cellular-resolution connectivity maps, connectomes, from the mammalian nervous system, it is in question how informative such massive connectomic data can be for the distinction of local circuit models in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Here, we investigated whether cellular-resolution connectomic data can in principle allow model discrimination for local circuit modules in layer 4 of mouse primary somatosensory cortex. We used approximate Bayesian model selection based on a set of simple connectome statistics to compute the posterior probability over proposed models given a to-be-measured connectome. We find that the distinction of the investigated local cortical models is faithfully possible based on purely structural connectomic data with an accuracy of more than 90%, and that such distinction is stable against substantial errors in the connectome measurement. Furthermore, mapping a fraction of only 10% of the local connectome is sufficient for connectome-based model distinction under realistic experimental constraints. Together, these results show for a concrete local circuit example that connectomic data allows model selection in the cerebral cortex and define the experimental strategy for obtaining such connectomic data.

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ConnectomeModels, NeurologicalAnimalsBrain MappingCerebral CortexHumansMice

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