Publications

[Mason Gazette Report covering our research.]

1) G. Ascoli, R.F. Goldin: Coordinate systems for dendritic spines: a somatocentric approach. Complexity 2(4):40-48 (1997).

2) J.L. Krichmar, G. Ascoli, L. Hunter, J.L. Olds: A model of cerebellar saccadic motor learning using qualitative reasoning. Lecture Notes Computer Science 1240:134-145 (1997).

3) J.L. Krichmar, G. Ascoli,  J.L. Olds, L. Hunter: Qualitative reasoning as a modeling tool for computational neuroscience. In: Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 1998, J.M. Bower Ed., 609-614, Plenum NY. (1998).

4) J.P. Vandersluis, J.D. Cooke, G. Ascoli, J.L. Krichmar, G. Michaels, M. Montgomery, J. Symanzyk, B. Vitucci: Visualization of high-dimensional biomedical data. Comp. Sci. Stat. 30:482-487 (1998).

5) S.L. Senft, G. Ascoli: Reconstruction of brain networks by algorithmic amplification of morphometry data. Lect. Notes Comp. Sci. 1606:25-33 (1999).

6) J. Symanzik, G. Ascoli, S. Washington, J. Krichmar: Visual data mining of brain cells. Comp. Sci. Stat. 31:445-449 (1999).

7) G. Ascoli: Progress and Perspectives in computational neuroanatomy. Anatom. Rec. 257(6):195-207 (1999).

8) G. Ascoli, J.L. Krichmar: L-Neuron: a modeling tool for the efficient generation and parsimonious description of dendritic morphology. Neurocomputing 32-33:1003-1011 (2000).

9) S. Washington, G. Ascoli, J. Krichmar: Statistical analysis of CA3 pyramidal cell morphology’s effect on electrophysiology. Neurocomputing 32-33:261-269 (2000).

10) S. Nasuto, J. Krichmar, R. Scorcioni, G. Ascoli: Algorithmic analysis of electrophysiological data for the investigation of structure-activity relationship in single neurons. InterJournal Complex Syst. 389:1-7 (2000).

11) R. Scorcioni, G. Ascoli: Algorithmic extraction of morphological statistics from electronic archives of neuroanatomy. Lect. Notes Comp. Sci. 2084:30-37 (2001).

12) S. Nasuto, J. Krichmar, G. Ascoli: A computational study of the relationship between neuronal morphology and electrophysiology in an Alzheimer's Disease model. Neurocomputing 38-40:1477-1487 (2001).

13) G. Ascoli G., J. Krichmar, S. Nasuto, S. Senft: Generation, description and storage of dendritic morphology data. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 356(1412):1131-45 (2001).

14) G. Ascoli, J. Krichmar, R. Scorcioni, S. Nasuto, S. Senft: Computer generation and quantitative morphometric analysis of virtual neurons. Anat. Embryol. 204:283-301 (2001).

15) G. Ascoli,  A. Samsonovich: Bayesian morphometry of hippocampal cells suggests same-cell somatodendritic repulsion. Adv. Neural Inf. Proc. Syst. 14:133-139 (2002).

16) G. Ascoli (Ed.): Computational Neuroanatomy: Principles and Methods (Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2002).
        Chap. 1 (pp 3-26): Computing the brain and the computing brain (G. Ascoli)
        Chap. 3 (pp 49-70): Generation and description of neuronal morphology using L-Neuron: a case study. (D. Donohue, R. Scorcioni, G. Ascoli)
        Chap. 6 (pp 105-125): The relationship between neuronal shape and neuronal activity. (J. Krichmar, S. Nasuto)
        Chap 7 (pp 127-148): Practical aspects in anatomically accurate simulations of neuronal electrophysiology. (M. Lazarewicz, S. Boer-Iwema, G. Ascoli)
        Chap 12 (pp 245-270): Axonal navigation through voxel substrates: a strategy for reconstructing brain circuitry. (S. Senft)
        Chap 19 (pp 425-436): Towards virtual brains. (A. Samsonovich, G. Ascoli)

17) R. Scorcioni, J.-M. Boutiller, G. Ascoli: A real scale model of the dentate gyrus based on single-cell reconstructions and 3D rendering of a brain atlas. Neurocomputing, 44-46:629-634 (2002).

18) G. Ascoli: Neuroanatomical algorithms for dendritic modeling. Network: Comput. Neural Syst. 13:247-260 (2002).

19) J. Krichmar, S. Nasuto, R. Scorcioni, S. Washington, G. Ascoli: Influence of dendritic morphology on CA3 pyramidal cell electrophysiology. Brain Res., 941:11-28 (2002).

20) Turner DA,  Cannon RC, Ascoli GA: Web-based neuronal archives: neuronal morphometric and electrotonic analysis. In R. Kotter (Ed.): Neuroscience Databases – A Practical Guide, 81-98, Elsevier, Amsterdam (2002).

21) M. Lazarewicz, M. Migliore, G. Ascoli: A new bursting model of CA3 pyramidal cell physiology suggests multiple locations for spike initiation. Biosystems, 67:129-37 (2002).

22) Ascoli G.: Electrotonic effects on spike response model dynamics. IEEE Neural Networks, 2831-2836 (2003).

23) Samsonovich A., Ascoli G.: Statistical morphological analysis of hippocampal principal neurons indicates selective repulsion of dendrites from their own cell. J. Neurosci. Res. 71:173-87 (2003).

24) Ascoli G.: Passive dendritic integration heavily affects spiking dynamics of recurrent networks. Neural Networks, 16:657-663 (2003).

25) Scorcioni R., Lazarewicz M., Ascoli G.: Quantitative morphometry of hippocampal pyramidal cells: differences between anatomical classes and reconstructing laboratories. J. Comp. Neurol., 473:177-193 (2004).

26) Ascoli G., Atkeson J.: Incorporating  anatomically  realistic  cellular-level  connectivity  in  neural  network  models  of  the  rat  hippocampus. Biosystems, 79:173-181 (2005).

27) Li Y., Brewer D., Burke R.E., Ascoli G.: Developmental changes in spinal motoneuron dendrites in neonatal mice. J. Comp. Neurol., 483:304-317 (2005).

28) Donohue D., Ascoli G.: Models of neuronal outgrowth. In Koslow S.H. and Subramaniam S. (Eds.): Databasing the Brain: From Data to Knowledge, Wiley, New York, NY. pp 303-323 (2005).

29) Samsonovich A., Ascoli G.: Statistical determinants of dendritic morphology in hippocampal pyramidal neurons: a hidden Markov model. Hippocampus, 15:166-183  (2005).

30) Samsonovich A., Ascoli G.: A simple neural network model of the hippocampus suggesting its pathfinding role in episodic memory retrieval. Learning & Memory, 12:193-208  (2005).

32) Samsonovich A., Ascoli G.: Algorithmic description of hippocampal granule cell dendritic morphology. Neurocomputing, 65-66:253-260 (2005).

33) Donohue D., Ascoli G.: Local diameter fully constrains dendritic size in basal but not apical trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons. J. Comput. Neurosci., 19:223-238 (2005).

34) Brown K., Donohue D., D’Alessandro G., Ascoli G.: A cross-platform freeware tool for digital reconstruction of neuronal arborizations from image stacks. Neuroinformatics, 3:343-360 (2005).

35) Migliore M., Ferrante M., Ascoli G.: Signal propagation in oblique dendrites of CA1 pyramidal cells. J. Neurophys., 94:4145-4155 (2005).

36)  Samsonovich A., Ascoli G.: Morphological homeostasis in cortical dendrites. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103:1569-1574 (2006).

37) Ascoli G: Mobilizing the base of neuroscience data: the case of neuronal morphologies. Nature Rev. Neurosci., 7:318-324 (2006).

38) Ascoli G., Scorcioni R.: Neuron and network modeling. In Zaborszky L., Wouterlood, Lanciego J. (Eds.): Tract Tracing Methods, 3rd ed., Springer, New York NY. pp. 604-630 (2006).

39) Li X., Ascoli G.: Computational simulation of the input-output relationship in hippocampal pyramidal cells. J. Comput. Neurosci., 21:191-209 (2006).

40) Krichmar J., Velasquez D., Ascoli G.: Effects of beta-catenin on dendritic morphology and simulated firing patterns in cultured hippocampal neurons. Biol. Bull., 211:31-43 (2006).

41) Samsonovich A., Ascoli G.: Computational models of dendritic morphology: from parsimonious description to biological insight. In Costa L.da F. and Mueller G. (Eds.): Modeling Biology: Structures, Behaviors, Evolution, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. In Press (2006).