Seeing the unseen mind
Robert A McDougal, 2014
Originally on display at the Re:Generate show at The Grove; 760 Chapel St; New Haven, CT from August 15 - September 20. For more about the show, see here.
With the exception of the Purkinje cell, the neurons are representations of actual, once-living cells traced by many scientific researchers and shared publicly on NeuroMorpho.Org:
Ascoli, G. A., Donohue, D. E., & Halavi, M. (2007). NeuroMorpho. Org: a central resource for neuronal morphologies. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27(35), 9247-9251.
Each cell's morphology was originally used in one or more published papers by other researchers and I have shared all of the printable files on 3DModelDB, as linked in the references.
Ascoli, G. A., Donohue, D. E., & Halavi, M. (2007). NeuroMorpho. Org: a central resource for neuronal morphologies. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27(35), 9247-9251.
Cullheim, S., Fleshman, J. W., Glenn, L. L., & Burke, R. E. (1987). Membrane area and dendritic structure in type-identified triceps surae alpha motoneurons. Journal of comparative neurology, 255(1), 68-81. [PubMed] [NeuroMorpho.Org]
Cannon, R. C., Turner, D. A., Pyapali, G. K., & Wheal, H. V. (1998). An on-line archive of reconstructed hippocampal neurons. Journal of neuroscience methods, 84(1), 49-54. [PubMed] [NeuroMorpho.Org]
Wang, Y., Gupta, A., Toledo-Rodriguez, M., Wu, C. Z., & Markram, H. (2002). Anatomical, physiological, molecular and circuit properties of nest basket cells in the developing somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 12(4), 395-410. [PubMed] [NeuroMorpho.Org]
Migliore M, Cavarretta F, Hines ML, Shepherd GM (2014) Distributed organization of a brain microcircuit analysed by three-dimensional modeling: the olfactory bulb Front. Comput. Neurosci. 8:50 [ModelDB]
Barthó, P., Slézia, A., Varga, V., Bokor, H., Pinault, D., Buzsáki, G., & Acsády, L. (2007). Cortical control of zona incerta. The Journal of neuroscience, 27(7), 1670-1681. [PubMed] [NeuroMorpho.Org]
Ishizuka, N., Cowan, W. M., Amaral, D. G. (1995). A quantitative analysis of the dendritic organization of pyramidal cells in the rat hippocampus. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 362(1), 17-45. [PubMed] [NeuroMorpho.Org]
Morse TM, Carnevale NT, Mutalik PG, Migliore M, Shepherd GM (2010) Abnormal excitability of oblique dendrites implicated in early Alzheimer's: a computational study Front. Neural Circuits 4:16 [PubMed] [ModelDB]
