Somewhat later in development, pyramidal neurons, the projection cells of the cerebral cortex, use radial glial processes as a scaffold to move away from the same proliferative zone and form the ...

Their cell bodies have a unique pyramidal shape that is the source of their name. They make up about two-thirds of all neurons in the cerebral cortex of mammals, making them important for many ...

Such changes could be restricted to CA1 or could be distributed across many brain regions ... Elston, G. N. Cortex, cognition and the cell: new insights into the pyramidal neuron and prefrontal ...

By studying the synapses through which pyramidal neurons in the brain's sensory cortex communicate, they have learned how the cells preserve their understanding of some of the world's most ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

Once consumed, the drug delivers a powerful stimulus to the nucleus accumbens, a cluster of nerve cells below the cerebral cortex, which responds quickly by releasing a flood of dopamine.

The two most significantly schizophrenia-associated cell types had similar functions—selectively inhibiting and therefore shaping excitatory activity in the cerebral cortex, the human brain's ...

S pecific brain cells known as layer 5 pyramidal neurons play a vital role in how our brains process information. Research by the team of Prof. Joris de Wit (VIB-KU Leuven) and colleagues ...

Experimenting with slices of rat brain tissue, Traub’s colleagues inserted electrodes into a piece of visual cortex and used drugs to chemically induce a stable alpha rhythm. This rhythm, the team ...

These two hemispheres make up the cerebral cortex. This controls most of our senses, intelligence, personality, conscious thought and high-level functions, such as language and verbal memory.

A research team at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has revealed that parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) preferentially encode ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, ...