A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

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 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 ...

Using a whole-brain fluorescence imaging technique developed at Janelia, scientists captured axons of pyramidal tract neurons leaving the motor cortex. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Sodium action potentials can propagate somatofugally into the dendritic tree of cortical pyramidal neurons 1, as shown by electrophysiology and optical imaging of [Ca 2+] in brain slices (for ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...