Publications
1) Ascoli G., Goldin R.F.: Coordinate systems for dendritic spines:
a somatocentric approach. Complexity 2(4):40-48, (1997).
2)Krichmar J.L.,
Ascoli G., Hunter L., Olds J.L.: A model of cerebellar saccadic motor
learning
using qualitative reasoning. Lecture Notes Computer Science
1240:134-145, (1997).
3)Krichmar J.L., Ascoli G., Olds J.L., Hunter L.: 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)
Vandersluis J.P., Cooke J.D., Ascoli G., Krichmar J.L., Michaels G., Montgomery M., Symanzyk J., Vitucci B.: Visualization of high-dimensional
biomedical data. Comp. Sci. Stat. 30:482-487,(1998).
5)
Senft S.L., Ascoli G.: Reconstruction of brain networks by
algorithmic amplification of morphometry data. Lect. Notes Comp. Sci. 1606:25-33,(1999).
6)
Symanzik J., Ascoli G., Washington S., Krichmar J.: Visual data mining
of brain cells. Comp. Sci. Stat. 31:445-449,(1999).
7)
Ascoli G.: Progress and Perspectives in
computational
neuroanatomy. Anatom. Rec. 257(6):195-207,(1999).
8)
Ascoli G., Krichmar J.L.: L-Neuron: a modeling tool for the efficient generation
and parsimonious description of dendritic morphology. Neurocomputing
32-33:1003-1011,(2000).
9)
S. Washington,Ascoli G., Krichmar J.: Statistical analysis of
CA3
pyramidal cell morphology’s effect on electrophysiology. Neurocomputing
32-33:261-269 (2000).
10)Nasuto S., Krichmar J., Scorcioni R., Ascoli G.: Algorithmic analysis of
electrophysiological data for the investigation of structure-activity relationship in single neurons. InterJournal Complex Syst. 389:1-7,(2000).
11) Scorcioni R., Ascoli G.: Algorithmic extraction of morphological
statistics from electronic archives of neuroanatomy. Lect. Notes Comp.
Sci. 2084:30-37,(2001).
12)
Nasuto S., Krichmar J., Ascoli G.: A computational study of the
relationship between neuronal morphology and electrophysiology in an
Alzheimer's
Disease model. Neurocomputing 38-40:1477-1487,(2001).
13)
Ascoli G., Krichmar J., Nasuto S.,Senft S.: Generation,
description
and storage of dendritic morphology data. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B,
356(1412):1131-45,(2001).
14)
Ascoli G., Krichmar J., Scorcioni R., Nasuto S., Senft S.:
Computer
generation and quantitative morphometric analysis of virtual neurons.
Anat.
Embryol. 204:283-301,(2001).
15)Ascoli G.; A. Samsonovich: Bayesian morphometry of
hippocampal
cells suggests same-cell somatodendritic repulsion. Adv. Neural Inf.
Proc.
Syst. 14:133-139,(2002).
16)Ascoli G.(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)
Scorcioni R.,Boutiller J.-M.,Ascoli G.: 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)
Ascoli G.: Neuroanatomical algorithms for dendritic modeling.
Network:
Comput. Neural Syst. 13:247-260,(2002).
19)
Krichmar J., Nasuto S., Scorcioni R.,Washington S.,Ascoli G.:
Influence of dendritic morphology on CA3 pyramidal cell
electrophysiology.
Brain Res., 941:11-28,(2002).
20) Turner D., Cannon R., Ascoli G.: Web-based neuronal
archives:
neuronal morphometric and electrotonic analysis. In R. Kotter (Ed.):
Neuroscience
Databases – A Practical Guide, 81-98, Elsevier, Amsterdam,(2002).
21)
Lazarewicz M., Migliore M., Ascoli G.: 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).
31)
Scorcioni R., Ascoli G.: Algorithmic reconstruction of complete
axonal arborizations in rat hippocampal neurons. Neurocomputing,
65-66:15-22,(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) Ascoli G.:
Successful grant fishing in funding droughts. Nature Cell Biol. 9:856-7,(2007).
42) Duque A.,
Tepper J., Detari L., Ascoli G., Zaborszky L.: Morphological
characterization of electrophysiologically identified basal forebrain
neurons: cholinergic vs. neuropeptide Y-containing neurons. Brain
Struct. Funct., 1:55-73,(2007).
43) Ascoli G.,
Donohue D., Halavi M.: NeuroMorpho.Org – A central resource for
neuronal morphologies. J. Neurosci. 27:9247-51 (2007).
44) Ascoli G.:
Biomedical research funding: When the game gets tough, winners start to
play. BioEssay, 29:933-936,(2007).
45) Ascoli G.:
Successes and rewards in sharing digital reconstructions
of neuronal morphology. Neuroinformatics. 5:154-160,(2007).
46) 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. pp. 91-113,(2007).
47) Liu Y.,
Ascoli G.: Value Added by Data Sharing - Long Term
Potentiation of Neuroscience Research. Neuroinformatics. 5:143-145,(2007).
48)
Berzhanskaya J., Ascoli G.: Computational neuroanatomy. Scholarpedia,
3(3):1313,(2008)
49) Hemond P.,
Epstein D., Migliore M., Ascoli G., Jaffe D.:
Distinct classes of pyramidal cells exhibit mutually exclusive firing
patterns in hippocampal area CA3b. Hippocampus. 18:411-424,(2008).
50) Scorcioni
R., Polavaram S., Ascoli G.: L-Measure: a web-accessible tool for the
analysis, comparison and search of digital reconstructions of neuronal
morphologies. Nature Protocols. 3:866-76,(2008).
51) Donohue
D., Ascoli G.: A comparative computer simulation of dendritic
morphology. PLoS Comput. Biol. 4(5): e1000089,(2008).
52) Ascoli G.,
Halavi M.: Neuroinformatics. In: Squire LR (ed.) Encyclopedia of
Neuroscience,6:477-484,(2009).
53) Li X.,
Ascoli G.: Effects of synaptic synchrony on the neuronal
input/output relationship. Neural Computation. 20(7):1717-31,(2008).
54) Scorcioni
R., Wright S., Card J., Ascoli G., Barrionuevo G.:
Point Analysis in Java applied to histological images of the perforant
pathway: A user’s account. Neuroinformatics, 6:63-7,(2008).
55) Ropireddy D., Bachus S., Scorcioni R., Ascoli G.: Computational
neuroanatomy of the rat hippocampus: implications and application to
epilepsy. In Soltesz I., Staley K (Eds.): Computational Neuroscience in
Epilepsy, Elsevier, San Diego, CA,71-85,(2008).
56) Ascoli G.,
Alonso L., Anderson S., Barrionuevo G.,
Benavides-Piccione R., Burkhalter A., Buzsaki G., Cauli B., DeFelipe
J., Fairen A., Feldmeyer D., Fishell G., Fregnac Y., Freund
T.F., Karube F., Gardner D., Gardner E., Goldberg J., Helmstaedter M.,
Hestrin S., Kisvarday Z., Lambolez B., Lewis D., Marin O., Markram H.,
Munoz A., Packer A., Petersen C., Rockland K., Rossier J., Rudy
B., Somogyi P., Staiger J.F., Tamas G., Thomson A., Toledo M., Wang Y.,
West D., Yuste R.: Petilla Terminology: Nomenclature of features
of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex. Nature Rev. Neurosci.
9:557-68,(2008).
57) Migliore M., Ascoli G., Jaffe D.: CA3 cells - Detailed and
simplified pyramidal cell models. In Cutsuridis V., Graham B., Cobb S.,
Vida I. (Eds): “Hippocampal Microcircuits: A Computational Modeller’s
Resource Book”,(2008).
58) Ferrante
M., Blackwell K., Migliore M., Ascoli G.: Computational
models of neuronal biophysics and the characterization of potential
neuropharmacological targets. Curr. Med. Chem. 15:2456-71
(2008).
59) Scorcioni
R., Hamilton D., Ascoli G.: Self-sustaining
non-repetitive activity in a large scale neuronal-level model of the
hippocampal circuit. Neural Netw., 21:1153-63 ,(2008).
60) Brown K., Gillette T.,
Ascoli G.: Quantifying neuronal size: Summing up trees and splitting
the branch difference. Sem. Cell Dev. Biol., 19:485-93,(2008).
61) Gardner D., Akil H., Ascoli G., Bowden D., Bug W., Donohue D,
Goldberg D., Grafstein B., Grethe J., Gupta A., Halavi M., Kennedy D.,
Marenco L., Martone M., Miller P., Müller H.-M., Robert A.,
Shepherd G., Sternberg P., Van Essen D., Williams R.: The Neuroscience
Information Framework: a data and knowledge environment for
neuroscience. Neuroinformatics, 6:149-60,(2008).
62) Marenco L., Ascoli G., Martone M., Shepherd G., Miller P.: The
pilot NIF LinkOut broker: A web resource to facilitate federated data
integration using NCBI identifiers. Neuroinformatics, 6:219-27,(2008).
63) Bug W., Ascoli G., Grethe J., Gupta A., Fennema-Notestine C., Laird
A., Larson S., Rubin D., Shepherd G., Turner J., Martone M.: The NIFSTD
and BIRNLex vocabularies: Building comprehensive ontologies for
neuroscience. Neuroinformatics, 6:175-94,(2008).
64) Halavi M., Polavaram S., Donohue D., Hamilton G., Hoyt J., Smith
K., Ascoli G.: NeuroMorpho.Org implementation of digital neuroscience:
dense coverage and integration with the NIF. Neuroinformatics, 6:241-52,(2008).
65) Ascoli G., Samsonovich A.: Science of the conscious mind. Biol.
Bull., 215:204-15,(2008).
66) Ascoli G.,
Halavi M.: Neuroinformatics. In: Squire LR (ed.) Encyclopedia of
Neuroscience, 6:477-484,(2009).
67) Komendantov A.,
Ascoli G.: Dendritic excitability and neuronal
morphology as determinants of synaptic efficacy, J Neurophysiol,
101:1847-66,(2009).
68) Hemond P.,
Migliore M., Ascoli G., Jaffe D.: The membrane response
of CA3 pyramidal neurons near rest: heterogeneity of passive properties
and the contribution of hyperpolarization-activated currents.
Neuroscience. 160:359-70,(2009).
69) Ascoli G., Brown K.,
Calixto E., Card J., Galvan E., Perez-Rosello T., Barrionuevo G.: Quantitative Morphometry
of Electrophysiologically Identified CA3b Interneurons Reveals Robust Local
Geometry and Distinct Cell Classes. J Comp Neurol. 515:677-695,(2009).
70) Ferrante M., Migliore M., Ascoli G.: Feed-forward inhibition as a buffer of the neuronal
input-output relation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 106:18004-9,(2009).
71) Ascoli G., Gasparini S., Medinilla V., Migliore M.: Local Control of Postinhibitory Rebound Spiking in CA1
Pyramidal Neuron Dendrites. Neuroscience. 30(18):6434-6442,(2010).
72) Ropireddy D., Scorcioni R., Lasher B., Buzsaki G., Ascoli G.: Axonal morphometry of hippocampal pyramidal neurons
semi-automatically reconstructed after in vivo labeling in different CA3 locations. Brain Struct. Funct. 216:1-15,(2011).
73) Costa L., Batista J., Ascoli G.: Communication structure of cortical networks. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 5:6. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00006,(2011).
74) Brown K., Barrionuevo G., Canty A., De Paola V., Hirsch J., Jefferis G., Lu J., Snippe M., Sugihara I., Ascoli G.: The DIADEM Data Sets: Representative Light Microscopy
Images of Neuronal Morphology to Advance Automation of Digital Reconstructions. Neuroinform 9:143-157,(2011).
75) Gillette T., Brown K., Ascoli G.: The DIADEM Metric: Comparing Multiple Reconstructions of the Same Neuron. Neuroinform 9:233-245,(2011).
76) Donohue D., Ascoli G.: Automated reconstruction of neuronal morphology: An overview. Brain Research Reviews 67:94-102,(2011).
77) Ropireddy D., Ascoli G.: Potential synaptic connectivity of different neurons onto pyramidal cells in a 3D reconstruction of the rat hippocampus. Front. Neuroinform., 5:5. doi:10.3389/fninf.2011.00005.,(2011).
78) Baker J., Perez-Rosello T., Migliore M., Barrionuevo G., Ascoli G.: A computer model of unitary responses from associational/commissural and perforant path synapses in hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells. J. Comp. Neurol. 31:137-158 (2011).
Erratum to: Journal of Computational Neuroscience, DOI 10.1007/s10827-010-0303-y and DOI 10.1007/s10827-010-0304-x. J. Comput. Neurosci. 31:183-183,(2011).
79) Perez-Rosello T., Baker J., Ferrante M., Iyengar S., Ascoli G., Barrionuevo G.: Passive and active shaping of unitary responses from associational/commissural and perforant path synapses in hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells. J. Comput. Neurosci. 31:159-182,(2011).
80) Ropireddy D., Bachus S., Ascoli G.: Non-Homogeneous Stereological Properties of the Rat Hippocampus from High-Resolution 3D Serial Reconstruction of Thin Histological Sections. Neuroscience 205:91-111,(2012).
81) Myatt D., Tye H., Ascoli G., Nasuto S.: Neuromantic - from semi manual to semi automatic reconstruction of neuron morphology. Front. Neuroinform., 6:4. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2012.00004.,(2012).
82) Halavi M., Hamilton K., Parekh R., Ascoli G.: Digital reconstructions of neuronal morphology: three decades of research trends. Front. Neurosci., 6:49. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00049.,(2012).
83) Hamilton D., Shepherd G., Martone M., Ascoli G.: An ontological approach to describing neurons and their relationships. Front. Neuroinform., 6:15. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2012.00015.,(2012).
84) Gardner B., Vogel A., Mainetti M., Ascoli G.: Quantitative Measurements of Autobiographical Memory Content. PLoS ONE, 7:9. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044809,(2012).
85) Gillette T., Ascoli G.: Measuring and modeling morphology: How dendrites take shape. Computational Systems Neurobiology, N. Le Novere Ed., 387-427, Springer Dordrecht.,(2012).
86) Brown K., Sugihara I., Shinoda Y., Ascoli G.: Digital Morphometry of Rat Cerebellar Climbing Fibers Reveals Distinct Branch and Bouton Types. J. Neurosci., 32(42), 14670-14684,(2012).
87) Ferrante M., Migliore M., Ascoli G.:Functional Impact of Dendritic Branch-Point Morphology. J. Neurosci. 33(5), 2156-2165,(2013).
88) Ascoli G., Samsonovich A.: A spiking-network cognitive architecture inspired by the hippocampus. bica, 3, 13-26,(2013).
89) DeFelipe J., Ló-Cruz P., Benavides-Piccione R., Bielza C., Larrañaga P., Anderson S., Burkhalter A., Cauli B., Fairén A., Feldmeyer D., Fishell G., Fitzpatrick D., Freund T., González-Burgos G., Hestrin S., Hill S., Hof P., Huang J., Jones E., Kawaguchi Y., Kisvarday Z., Kubota Y., Lewis D., Marin O., Markram H., McBain C., Meyer H., Monyer H., Nelson S., Rockland K., Rossier J., Rubenstein J., Rudy B., Scanziani M., Shepherd G., Sherwood C., Staiger J., Tamás G., Thomson A., Wang Y., Yuste R., Ascoli G.: Petilla Terminology: New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons. Nature Rev. Neurosci. 14:202-216 (2013).
90) Parekh R., Ascoli G.: Neuronal Morphology Goes Digital: A Research Hub for Cellular and System Neuroscience. Neuron, 77, 1017-1038,(2013).
91) Ascoli G.: The Mind-Brain Relationship as a Mathematical Problem. ISRN Neuroscience, 2013, 1-13,(2013).
92) Berzhanskaya J., Chernyy N., Gluckman B., Schiff S., Ascoli G.: Modulation of hippocampal rhythms by subthreshold electric fields and network topology. J Comp Neurosci., 34(3), 369-89,(2013).
93) Samsonovich A., Ascoli G.: Augmenting Weak Semantic Cognitive Maps with an "abstractness"" Dimension. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2013,(2013).
94) Wright S., Kochunov P., Mut F., Bergamino M., Brown K., Mazziotta J., Toga A., Cebral J., Ascoli G.: Digital Reconstruction and Morphometric Analysis of Human Brain Arterial Vasculature from Magnetic Resonance Angiography. NeuroImage, 82, 170-181,(2013).
95) Gardner R., Uttaro M., Fleming S., Suarez D., Ascoli G., Dumas T.:A secondary working memory challenge preserves primary place strategies despite overtraining. Learning & Memory, 20(11), 648-656,(2013).
96) Polavaram S., Gillette T., Parekh R., Ascoli G.:Statistical analysis and data mining of digital
reconstructions of dendritic morphologies. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 8(138), (2014).
97) Ascoli G.: Hippocampus’ Role in Learning and Memory. In J. Trefil Ed.: Discoveries in Modern Science (Macmillan Reference’s Exploration, Invention, Technology), pp. 482-487 (2014).