The Rewiring Brain

Section 1. Experimental Background 1. Structural plasticity and cortical connectivity2. Structural plasticity induced by adult neurogenesis3. Structural neural plasticity during stroke recovery4. Is lesion-induced synaptic rewiring driven by activity homeostasis? Section 2. Homeostatic Structural Plasticity5. Network formation through activity-dependent neurite outgrowth: a review of a simple model of homeostatic structural plasticity6. Clustered arrangement of inhibitory neurons can lead to oscillatory dynamics in a model of activity-dependent structural plasticity 7. A detailed model of homeostatic structural plasticity based on dendritic spine and axonal bouton dynamics8. Critical periods emerge from homeostatic structural plasticity in a full-scale model of the developing cortical column9. Lesion-induced dendritic remodeling as a new mechanism of homeostatic structural plasticity in the adult brainSection 3. Structural Plasticity and Connectivity10. The role of structural plasticity in producing nonrandom neural connectivity11. Structural plasticity and the generation of bidirectional connectivity12. Spike-timing dependent structural plasticity of multi-contact synaptic connections13. Selection of synaptic connections by wiring plasticity for robust learning by synaptic weight plasticitySection 4. Structural Plasticity and Learning and Memory14. Within a spine's reach15. Impact of structural plasticity on memory capacity16. Long-term information storage by the interaction of synaptic and structural plasticity17. Impact of structural plasticity on memory formation and declineSection 5. Neurogenesis-Related Structural Plasticity18. Adult neurogenesis and synaptic rewiring in the hippocampal dentate gyrus19. Modifications in network structure and excitability may drive differential activity dependent integration of granule cells into Dentate Gyrus circuits during normal and pathological adult neurogenesis20. Computational perspectives on adult neurogenesis21. Restricted Boltzmann Machine models of hippocampal coding and neurogenesisSection 6. Structural Plasticity and Pathology22. Modeling the impact of lesions in the brain23. Network models of epilepsy-related pathological structural and functional alterations in the dentate gyrus24. Computational models of stroke recovery25. Neural plasticity in human brain connectivity: the effects of deep brain stimulation