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- L. da Fontoura Costa
- R. C. Coelho
Abstract
The quintessential property of neuronal systems is their intensive patterns of selective synaptic connections. The current work describes a physics-based approach to neuronal shape modeling and synthesis and its consideration for the simulation of neuronal development and the formation of neuronal communities. Starting from images of real neurons, geometrical measurements are obtained and used to construct probabilistic models which can be subsequently sampled in order to produce morphologically realistic neuronal cells. Such cells are progressively grown while monitoring their connections along time, which are analysed in terms of percolation concepts. However, unlike traditional percolation, the critical point is verified along the growth stages, not the density of cells, which remains constant throughout the neuronal growth dynamics. It is shown, through simulations, that growing beta cells tend to reach percolation sooner than the alpha counterparts with the same diameter. Also, the percolation becomes more abrupt for higher densities of cells, being markedly sharper for the beta cells. In the addition to the importance of the reported concepts and methods to computational neuroscience, the possibility of reaching percolation through morphological growth of a fixed number of objects represents in itself a novel paradigm of great theoretical and practical interest for the areas of statistical physics and critical phenomena. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2005
Suggested Citation
L. da Fontoura Costa & R. C. Coelho, 2005.
"Growth-driven percolations: the dynamics of connectivity in neuronal systems,"
The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Springer;EDP Sciences, vol. 47(4), pages 571-581, October.
Handle:
RePEc:spr:eurphb:v:47:y:2005:i:4:p:571-581
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2005-00354-5
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