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ONLY CONNECT
David WillshawInstitute for Adaptive & Neural Computation
School of InformaticsUniversity of Edinburgh
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ONLY CONNECT
Computational thought Hamming Seminars
Bell Labs Radar Family history
Bell Labs Information Theory My research
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ONLY CONNECT
Only connect ! That was all her sermon. Only connect the pride and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect.....
From Howard’s End by E M Forster
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This is my research area:
COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEURAL
CONNECTIVITY
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Why is this an important area?
Why is this an important area now?
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Without the correct specific connectivity patterns between our neurons we cannot function correctly
We don’t yet know the mechanisms for how the brain is wired up
Computational modelling is used to explore particular hypotheses and suggest experiments to try to understand the underlying mechanisms
New technologies are giving us much better data about connectivity
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Human Brain – MRI scan(Wellcome Images; Mark Lythgoe, Chloe Hutton)
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Cerebellum
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The cerebellar cortex contains nerve cells of several different types
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Cajal(1905)
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Purkinje cell (Wellcome Images; David Becker)
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Shows the Purkinje cells lined up and the
parallel fibres (Cunningham, 1913)
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Purkinje cells and parallel fibres (Wellcome Images; Spike Walker)
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Vertebrate retina
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Vertebrate retina
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Visual pathways in mammals
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Ocular dominance columns
The binocular projection from retina to cortex in mammals
Zebra stripes?
Reminiscent of Turing Patterns postulated to be formed in morphogenesis by mechanisms of reaction-diffusionAM Turing , Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B, 237, 37-52, 1952
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Computational modelling in neuroscience
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Molecules
Synapses
Neurons
Networks
Systems
CNS
1 cm
100 m
10 cm
m
m
A
Maps1 cm
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Modelling at the nerve cell level (Wellcome Images; Benedict Campbell)
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1952: The first computational neuroscience model
A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve.
Hodgkin & Huxley, J Physiology (1952)
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The Hodgkin-Huxley model
Impulse propagation caused by flow of K+ and Na+ currents through separate channels in the membrane
Permeability to ion flow in these channels is dependent on the potential difference across the membrane
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Modelling a segment of the axon as an electrical circuit where the resistances are
voltage dependent
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HH equations account for all the data
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A model at the network level
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Learning and Memory:Hebb’s rule
‘When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite cell B or repeatedly or consistently take part in firing it, some growth or metabolic change takes place
in one or both cells such that A’s efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased.’
Hebb (1949)
A
B
C
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Hebb's rule and associative memory
Distributed Memory:
The Associative Net (Willshaw, Buneman & Longuet-
Higgins, Nature, 1969)
Clipped Hebbian rule
Pre0 1
Post
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Modelling of the development of nerve connections
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J.F. Tello
Polyneuronal innervation in foetal human muscle (1917)
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Connections between neonatal nerve and muscle(Wellcome Images, Ribchester & Gillingwater)
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Visual pathways in mammals
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FROG BRAIN
CAT BRAIN
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Xenopus tadpoles
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Frogs and toads
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Xenopus
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Frog visual system
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What is the mechanism for the formation of ordered maps of nerve connections?
Both flexibility and rigidity in connection pattern are seen - probably more than one mechanism act together?
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The main theories
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1. Chemoaffinity – molecular cues guide each axon to its target cell or cells (usually associated with rigidity of connection)
2. Electrical signalling - e g, nearby cells that fire together may be more active than more distant cells and so can signal neighbour relations to the cells to which they are connected – usually associated with flexibility of connections.
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So what is the link with Informatics?
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“Informatics” means different things to different people?
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“When I use a word” Humpty Dumpty said rather in a scornful tone “It means what I choose it to mean –neither more nor less”
Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
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Neuroinformatics INCFinformation-processing in the nervous system
Computational Models
inspire new hardware and software methodsNeural Engineering
collect, analyze, archive, share, simulate and visualize data and models
Software Systems
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Neuroinformatics INCFINCF – International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (www.incf.org)
An international organisation subscribed to by 15 governments
Dedicated to the coordination of neuroinformatics world wide.
Each country has its own local organisation; I am the UK Coordinator and scientific representative at INCF
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Mike Fourman’s formulation:
“Informatics is the study of how natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate information”
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The School of Informatics at Edinburgh is inclusive rather than exclusive.
++: Aren’t we lucky to be not constrained!
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The School of Informatics at Edinburgh is inclusive rather than exclusive.
++: Cross-fertilisation
--: Because of the breadth there is a danger that individuals have a lack of understanding of other fields of research practised in Informatics
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A snapshot, which I prepared for Mike Fourman, of the interactions between academic and research staff in the three departmental groupings in 1997, prior to the formation of the School of Informatics
AI/AIAI: Artificial Intelligence/AI Applications InstituteDCS: Department of Computer ScienceCCS/HCRC: Centre for Cognitive Science/Human Communications Research Centre
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The importance of technology in the computational modelling of the
nervous system
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Julius Bernstein (1839-1917), after whom the Bernstein Centres for Computational Neuroscience in Germany are named.
His membrane theory of the propagation of the nerve impulse (1902) was almost right.
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But his equipment for measuring the properties of the nerve impulse was inadequate
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Alan Hodgkin
Andrew Huxley
Once Hodgkin had been to Chicago (50 years later) to learn how to build an amplifier, he and Huxley could collect, analyse and model the required data, leading to a Nobel Prize for them
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My current research problem
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What is the mechanism for the formation of ordered maps of nerve connections?
Both flexibility and rigidity in connection pattern are seen - probably more than one mechanism act together?
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The main theories
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1. Chemoaffinity – molecular cues guide each axon to its target cell or cells (usually associated with rigidity of connection)
2. Electrical signalling - e g, nearby cells that fire together may be more active than more distant cells and so can signal neighbour relations to the cells to which they are connected – usually associated with flexibility of connections.
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An example of mechanism 2: nearest neighbour interactions through correlated neural activity
According to the neural activity model, spontaneous electrical activity drives the process.
By a Hebbian-type mechanism, connections between neighbouring retinal cells and neighbouring tectal cells are strengthened; those between non-neighbours are weakened (Willshaw and von der Malsburg 1976).
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New technology furnishes higher quality data:Mouse superior colliculus maps (Cang et al, J. Neurosci, 2008)
The colour-coded noisy X, Y coordinates of the receptive fields of each small part of a 2 mm square brain area including colliculus
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Distribute ‘recording’ positions
regularly over the colliculus
100m
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Then join up nearest neighbours to form a lattice
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Translating colours into field positions, plot out the receptive field position for each recording point, averaging over nearby collicular points
Then project the collicular lattice into the field
Colliculus Field
Wild type (normal)20 recording points, or nodes
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Projection of collicular lattice to field 50 m separation between nodes
Projection of field lattice to colliculus
Wild type (#006, 170 nodes)
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Theories for the formation of nerve connections can be tested in mice for which the genome is known
Genes that are thought to be determining developmental mechanisms can be manipulated
Their effects on connectivity can be observed and compared with the model predictions
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Beta2 knockout
Knockout of the Beta2 component of the acetylcholine receptor is thought to diminish the strength of the correlated firing activity in the retina
And hence the precision of the map?
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Remove correlated activity in a Beta2 knockout
Colliculus to field
Orientation: 19+/-17 degrees
The largest connected ordered submap – covers 138/145 nodes (95%)
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Modern evidence for molecular guidance cues
from McLaughlin, Hindges and O’Leary (2003)
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Are these molecules used in map-making?
If Ephs and ephrins are the labels of chemoaffinity, then changing them should result in abnormal patterns of connectivity
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If all these ephrins are knocked out will the mapping along the rostrocaudal axis be destroyed??
EphrinA triple knock out
Three ephrinAs, ephrinA2, ephrinA3 and ephrinA5, are thought to label the rostrocaudal axis of the colliculus.
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Remove molecular cues:Heterozygote triple EphA knockout[A2-/-A3+/-A5-
Largest ordered submap covering 90% of the nodes
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Normal maps have quite high precision
Removing genes controlling activity cues and molecular cues still does not destroy the order
New models are needed!
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In summary:
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Collaborations are fun
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At the 1st Connectionist
Summer School, Pittsburgh (1986)
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Showsthe fledgling algorithm applied to a 30-city problem (Hopfield & Tank, 1985).
As presented to the 1986 Connectionists summer school
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Application of the Elastic Net to a 100-City Problem
(Durbin & Willshaw, Nature, 1988)
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Connections with the Bell Labs of Hamming’s era
Scientists at Bell Labs prided themselves in researching fundamental problems whereas in reality they were employed by a company to develop products
Is there a duality here? In this university or in Informatics many of us are employed to do fundamental research yet there is increasing pressure to go after the WOW Factor
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But there has to be something behind the WOW
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WOW!
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But there has to be something behind the WOW
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WOW!
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Connections with Hamming’s aphorisms
from his Bell Communications Research Seminar
“You and your research”
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1. “You have to learn to sell yourself, to write clearly”
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1. “You have to learn to sell yourself, to write clearly”
2. “The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind”
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1. “You have to learn to sell yourself, to write clearly”
2. “The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind”
3. Against working single-handedly with total control:
“If you learn to work with the system, you can go as far as the system will support you
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1. “You have to learn to sell yourself, to write clearly”
2. “The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind”
3. Against working single-handedly with total control:
“If you learn to work with the system, you can go as far as the system will support you
4 “If you do some good work you will find yourself on all kinds of committee and unable to do any more work.”
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1. “You have to learn to sell yourself, to write clearly”
2. “The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind”
3. Against working single-handedly with total control:
“If you learn to work with the system, you can go as far as the system will support you
4 “If you do some good work you will find yourself on all kinds of committee and unable to do any more work.”
5 “Plant the little acorns from which the mighty acorns grow”
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If you want to find out more about computational modelling in neuroscience, you could consult our forthcoming Cambridge University Press book:
Principles of Computational
Modelling in Neuroscience
by
David Sterratt Bruce Graham
Andrew Gillies David Willshaw
PDF of almost-final version available on request!
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