Mini Course on Whole Brain Emulation (WBE)

Regional synapse gain and loss accompany memory formation in larval zebrafish

Synaptic counts approximate synaptic contact area in Drosophila

A strong correlation between synaptic counts and total synaptic surface area in the Drosophila larval central nervous system, validating the use of synaptic counts as a proxy for synaptic strength in neural circuit models.

While this finding could accelerate brain connectivity mapping and simulation, further research is needed to address potential limitations and gaps, such as generalizability to other species and the relationship between structural and functional measures of synaptic strength.