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Automated Sholl Analysis of Digitized Neuronal Morphology at Multiple Scales
Published on: November 14, 2010
The world of the identified or digital neuron
1a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University , Halifax , Canada.
Abstract:
In general, neurons in insects and many other invertebrate groups are individually recognizable, enabling us to assign an index number to specific neurons in a manner which is rarely possible in a vertebrate brain. This endows many studies on insect nervous systems with the opportunity to document neurons with great precision, so that in favourable cases we can return to the same neuron or neuron type repeatedly so as to recognize many separate morphological classes. The visual system of the fly's compound eye particularly provides clear examples of the accuracy of neuron wiring, allowing numerical comparisons between representatives of the same cell type, and estimates of the accuracy of their wiring.
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