User:Barnarev/Neuromorphology

Wikipedia Proposal: Neuromorphology

Stanley Cooper, Susan Chan, Sahaan Sozhamannan, Evangelina Barnard

Introduction

Neuromorphology studies the formation and interaction of the geometrical properties of nervous systems.

Topics on Neuromorphology

Theoretical Neuromorphology

• Branch of neuromorphology focused on the mathematical description of the shape, structure and connectivity of the nervous system.

Gravitational Neuromorphology

• The study of the effects of altered gravity on the development of the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems.

Medical Implications

• Medical research in neuromorphology is used in studying various neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia.

Techniques for Studying Neuromorphology

• current: confocal microscopy, neuron tracing, neuron reconstruction.
• future: virtual microscopy, automated stereology, cortical mapping, map guided automated neuron tracing, network analysis.

Current and Future Research on Neuromorphology

• Computational Neuromorphology

Researches neurons by cutting the neurons into slices and studying these different subsections.

References

1. Costa LDF, Zawadzki K, Miazaki M, Viana MP and Taraskin SN (2010) Unveiling the neuromorphological space. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 4:150. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2010.00150
2. Lemmens MA, Steinbusch HW, Rutten BP, Schmitz C. Advanced microscopy techniques for quantitative analysis in neuromorphology and neuropathology research: current status and requirements for the future, J Chem Neuroanat. 2010 Nov;40(3):199-209.
3. Ascoli, G. A., Donohue, D. E., and Halavi, M. (2007). NeuroMorpho.Org: a central resource for neuronal morphologies. J. Neurosci. 27, 9247–9251.
4. Costa Lda F, Manoel ET, Faucereau F, Chelly J, van Pelt J, Ramakers G. A shape analysis framework for neuromorphometry. Network. 2002;13(3):283–310.

Workload Division Plan

Stanley Cooper and Susan Chan will primarily be doing research in the library looking for secondary sources, while Sahaan Sozhamannan and Evangelina Barnard will be researching through online databases and journals. All four of us will be meeting periodically to go over research we have found, and working on editing our project page. Specifically, Evangelina Barnard will be focusing on the medical implications and directions of neuromorphology, Stanley Cooper will be focusing on gravitational neuromorphology, Sahaan Sozhamannan will be focusing on theoretical neuromorphology, and Susan Chan will be focusing on techniques for studying and research on neuromorphology.