Conveners
Contributed Talks: Applications
- Kathleen Rockland (Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine)
Background. Complex behaviours benefit from parallel distributed processing in multiple brain networks. The roles of certain networks are well-defined, while others remain elusive. Arguably, none are so elusive as the default mode network (DMN); a distributed set of brain regions that decrease in activity during many externally oriented tasks. Revealing the cytoarchitectural composition...
Analysis of histological data requires sophisticated methods and tools. In the past, research teams have aimed at producing tool packages covering all researchers’ needs. Such large packages can quickly become unwieldy: difficult to maintain and complex to use. Web technologies allow for a powerful alternative: focused micro-services. Instead of a single, overly complex tool, users can rely on...
Connections and interactions among neurons manifest as patterned neural activity and adaptive behaviour. Ascending projections from the brainstem and subcortical nuclei have a modulatory effect on the electrical potential - and therefore the excitability and firing rate - of cortical neurons (Shine 2019). These modulatory influences are coordinated by overlapping and heterogeneous...
Extensive research over the past three decades have been revolutionary by conceptualizing a neuron-glial paradigm which aims at describing the mutual dependence between glial and neuronal processes at multiple spatiotemporal scales. However, glial contributions to large-scale functional neuronal network organization remain mysterious due to the lack of empirical and theoretical frameworks...
