Neocortical models in the Open Source Brain repository
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### Introduction

It is in the scientific community’s interest to have a detailed model of the Thalamo - cortical loop. This will aid us in understanding
the role of cortex in processing information. Although there are a few existing models addressing this question, they are not updated with the
latest findings of the field, the model’s development stops with the publication of the results. Also, often such detailed models are
abandoned due to lack of financial and human resources to maintain such projects. New projects are built up from the scratch - this wastes
precious resources, and is like re-inventing the wheel. This project differs specifically in this respect - by making the project
Open, new findings are encouraged to be added, bugs will be acknowledged and subseqently corrected. As it is the community that develops
the project, the findings are open to all - immediately. The central idea is to arrive at a consensus of existing good models of cells and
network alike and to build upon them. This will happen with benchmarking, version control and testing.

### Cellular models

There are a number of detailed cell models from the neocortex in OSB.

#### Generic cortical pyramidal cell

project:pospischiletal2008 (single compartment, conductance based; Regular Spiking (RS) neurons & Intrinsically Bursting (IB) neurons)
project:acnet2 is a network model of the thalamorecipient layer (IV) of primary auditory cortex (AI), and consists of 2 populations, pyramidal cells and basket cell interneurons.
project:piriformcortexvanier

#### Layer 2/3 Pyramidal cell

project:thalamocortical (Fast Regular Bursting & Regular Spiking)

#### Layer 4 Spiny Stellate cell

project:thalamocortical

#### Layer 5 Pyramidal cell

project:mainenetalpyramidalcell:
project:rothmanetalkoleetalpyrcell
project:thalamocortical (Intrinsically bursting & Regular Spiking)
project:l5bpyrcellhayetal2011

There is a \*dedicated page on modelling L5 cells [here](/projects/l5pyramidalcellmodels/wiki*).

#### Layer 6 Pyramidal cell

project:thalamocortical

#### Interneurons

project:thalamocortical (Superficial & Deep Basket, Axo-axonic & LTS interneurons)
project:acnet2 is a network model of the thalamorecipient layer (IV) of primary auditory cortex (AI), and consists of 2 populations, pyramidal cells and basket cell interneurons.
project:pospischiletal2008 (Fast Spiking (FS) neurons)

### Network models

#### Abstract cortical networks

project:izhikevichmodel
project:vogelsetal2011
project:destexhe\_jcns\_2009
project:brunel2000

#### Thalamocortical networks

project:thalamocortical

See the page on [[Modelling the thalamocortical loop]]