Structural plasticity of circuits in cortical neuropil.

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Gina EscobarArmen Stepanyants

Abstract

Learning and memory formation in the brain depend on the plasticity of neural circuits. In the adult and developing cerebral cortex, this plasticity can result from the formation and elimination of dendritic spines. New synaptic contacts appear in the neuropil where the gaps between axonal and dendritic branches can be bridged by dendritic spines. Such sites are termed potential synapses. Here, we describe a theoretical framework for the analysis of spine remodeling plasticity. We provide a quantitative description of two models of spine remodeling in which the presence of a bouton is either required or not for the formation of a new synapse. We derive expressions for the density of potential synapses in the neuropil, the connectivity fraction, which is the ratio of actual to potential synapses, and the number of structurally different circuits attainable with spine remodeling. We calculate these parameters in mouse occipital cortex, rat CA1, monkey V1, and human temporal cortex. We find that, on average, a dendritic spine can choose among 4-7 potential targets in rodents and 10-20 potential targets in primates. The potential of neuropil for structural circuit remodeling is highest in rat CA1 (7.1-8.6 bits/mum(3)) and lowest in...Continue Reading

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Aug 12, 2009·Journal of Biological Physics·Avner PrielNancy J Woolf
May 13, 2011·Neuroinformatics·Paarth ChothaniArmen Stepanyants
May 27, 2011·The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience·Armen Stepanyants, Gina Escobar
Apr 20, 2014·Physiological Reports·Julia MissitziJoseph Classen
Oct 7, 2009·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Tarec Fares, Armen Stepanyants
Dec 18, 2013·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences·Yi WeiAlexei Koulakov
Jul 8, 2015·Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience·Julio ChapetonArmen Stepanyants
Jun 5, 2015·Journal of Computational Neuroscience·Yury V ZaytsevMoritz Deger
Dec 13, 2018·Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience·Frédéric CasséNicolas Toni

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