Hotspots of dendritic spine turnover facilitates new spines and NN sparsity (Frank et al 2018)

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Model for the following publication: Adam C. Frank, Shan Huang, Miou Zhou, Amos Gdalyahu, George Kastellakis, Panayiota Poirazi, Tawnie K. Silva, Ximiao Wen, Joshua T. Trachtenberg, and Alcino J. Silva Hotspots of Dendritic Spine Turnover Facilitate Learning-related Clustered Spine Addition and Network Sparsity
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1 . Frank AC, Huang S, Zhou M, Gdalyahu A, Kastellakis G, Silva TK, Lu E, Wen X, Poirazi P, Trachtenberg JT, Silva AJ (2018) Hotspots of dendritic spine turnover facilitate clustered spine addition and learning and memory. Nat Commun 9:422 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell; Connectionist Network;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:
Cell Type(s): Abstract integrate-and-fire leaky neuron with dendritic subunits;
Channel(s):
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): NMDA;
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s):
Simulation Environment: C or C++ program; MATLAB;
Model Concept(s): Active Dendrites; Synaptic Plasticity;
Implementer(s): Kastellakis, George [gkastel at gmail.com];
Search NeuronDB for information about:  NMDA;
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%
% Example:
%   [status result] = ghostscript(cmd)
%
% Attempts to locate a ghostscript executable, finally asking the user to
% specify the directory ghostcript was installed into. The resulting path
% is stored for future reference.
% 
% Once found, the executable is called with the input command string.
%
% This function requires that you have Ghostscript installed on your
% system. You can download this from: http://www.ghostscript.com
%
% IN:
%   cmd - Command string to be passed into ghostscript.
%
% OUT:
%   status - 0 iff command ran without problem.
%   result - Output from ghostscript.

% Copyright: Oliver Woodford, 2009-2013

% Thanks to Jonas Dorn for the fix for the title of the uigetdir window on
% Mac OS.
% Thanks to Nathan Childress for the fix to the default location on 64-bit
% Windows systems.
% 27/4/11 - Find 64-bit Ghostscript on Windows. Thanks to Paul Durack and
% Shaun Kline for pointing out the issue
% 4/5/11 - Thanks to David Chorlian for pointing out an alternative
% location for gs on linux.
% 12/12/12 - Add extra executable name on Windows. Thanks to Ratish
% Punnoose for highlighting the issue.
% 28/6/13 - Fix error using GS 9.07 in Linux. Many thanks to Jannick
% Steinbring for proposing the fix.
% 24/10/13 - Fix error using GS 9.07 in Linux. Many thanks to Johannes
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% 23/01/2014 - Add full path to ghostscript.txt in warning. Thanks to Koen
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if ismac
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% Call ghostscript
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% Check the path works
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error('Ghostscript not found. Have you installed it from www.ghostscript.com?');
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% Check the path is valid
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% Update the current default path to the path found
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function good = check_gs_path(path_)
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if ismac
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end
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good = good == 0;
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