PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Melozzi, Francesca
AU  - Woodman, Marmaduke M.
AU  - Jirsa, Viktor K.
AU  - Bernard, Christophe
TI  - The Virtual Mouse Brain: A Computational Neuroinformatics Platform to Study Whole Mouse Brain Dynamics
AID  - 10.1523/ENEURO.0111-17.2017
DP  - 2017 May 01
TA  - eneuro
PG  - ENEURO.0111-17.2017
VI  - 4
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.eneuro.org/content/4/3/ENEURO.0111-17.2017.short
4100  - http://www.eneuro.org/content/4/3/ENEURO.0111-17.2017.full
SO  - eNeuro2017 May 01; 4
AB  - Connectome-based modeling of large-scale brain network dynamics enables causal in silico interrogation of the brain’s structure-function relationship, necessitating the close integration of diverse neuroinformatics fields. Here we extend the open-source simulation software The Virtual Brain (TVB) to whole mouse brain network modeling based on individual diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI)-based or tracer-based detailed mouse connectomes. We provide practical examples on how to use The Virtual Mouse Brain (TVMB) to simulate brain activity, such as seizure propagation and the switching behavior of the resting state dynamics in health and disease. TVMB enables theoretically driven experimental planning and ways to test predictions in the numerous strains of mice available to study brain function in normal and pathological conditions.