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Recent advances in network science, applied to \textit{in vivo} brain recordings, have paved the way for better understanding of the structure and function of the brain. However, despite its obvious usefulness in neuroscience, traditional…

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Neural networks are often represented as graphs of connections between neurons. However, despite their wide use, there is currently little understanding of the relationship between the graph structure of the neural network and its…

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For constructing neuronal network models computational neuroscientists have access to wide-ranging anatomical data that nevertheless tend to cover only a fraction of the parameters to be determined. Finding and interpreting the most…

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