How a unique class of neurons may set the table for brain development

A new MIT study finds that somatostatin-expressing neurons follow a unique trajectory when forming connections in the brain’s ...
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Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time

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An Advance in Brain Research That Was Once Considered Impossible

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with other ...
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Separate neurons for content and context enable flexible human memory

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...