Simulation of Neuronal Death and Network Recovery in a Computational Model of Distributed Cortical Activity

The rapid growth of computational neuroscience enables to study the interplay between neuronal plasticity and cell death in computational models of brain network activity. Although the current simulations lack much of the rich physiology of real neuronal systems, they nevertheless allow us to make tentative hypotheses of the effects of neuronal lesions on the resulting neuroanatomical connectivity networks.