Publications by Eleni Vasilaki

Constitutive differences in glucocorticoid responsiveness are related to divergent spatial information processing abilities

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Eleni Vasilaki, Damien Sébastien Huzard, Simone Astori

The stress response facilitates survival through adaptation and is intimately related to cognitive processes. The Morris water maze task probes spatial learning and memory in rodents and glucocorticoids (i.e. corticosterone (CORT) in rats) have been sugges ...

2020

A generalised framework for detailed classification of swimming paths inside the Morris Water Maze

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Eleni Vasilaki

The Morris Water Maze is commonly used in behavioural neuroscience for the study of spatial learning with rodents. Over the years, various methods of analysing rodent data collected during this task have been proposed. These methods span from classical per ...

Nature Research2018

Adaptation of short-term plasticity parameters via error-driven learning may explain the correlation between activity-dependent synaptic properties, connectivity motifs and target specificity

Michele Giugliano, Eleni Vasilaki

The anatomical connectivity among neurons has been experimentally found to be largely non-random across brain areas. This means that certain connectivity motifs occur at a higher frequency than would be expected by chance. Of particular interest, short-ter ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

Measuring Symmetry, Asymmetry and Randomness in Neural Network Connectivity

Michele Giugliano, Eleni Vasilaki

Cognitive functions are stored in the connectome, the wiring diagram of the brain, which exhibits non-random features, so-called motifs. In this work, we focus on bidirectional, symmetric motifs, i.e. two neurons that project to each other via connections ...

Public Library of Science2014

Emergence of Connectivity Motifs in Networks of Model Neurons with Short- and Long-Term Plastic Synapses

Michele Giugliano, Eleni Vasilaki

Recent experimental data from the rodent cerebral cortex and olfactory bulb indicate that specific connectivity motifs are correlated with short-term dynamics of excitatory synaptic transmission. It was observed that neurons with short-term facilitating sy ...

Public Library of Science2014

QSpike tools: a generic framework for parallel batch preprocessing of extracellular neuronal signals recorded by substrate nnicroelectrode arrays

Michele Giugliano, Eleni Vasilaki

Micro-Electrode Arrays (MEAs) have emerged as a mature technique to investigate brain (dys)functions in vivo and in in vitro animal models. Often referred to as "smart" Petri dishes, MEAs have demonstrated a great potential particularly for medium-throughp ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2014