News tagged with pyramidal neurons


Scientists learn more about how inhibitory brain cells get excited

Scientists have found an early step in how the brain's inhibitory cells get excited.

Neuroscience created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study solves birth and migration mysteries of cortex's powerful inhibitors, 'chandelier' cells

A team at CSHL for the 1st time reveals the birth timing and embryonic origin of a critical class of inhibitory brain cells called chandelier cells, tracing the specific paths they take during early development into the cerebral ...

Neuroscience created Nov 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Transcription factor Prox1 controls hippocampal cellular diversity, researchers find

As is true of many brain structures, the hippocampus, which plays a central role in memory and learning, is made up of multiple cell types organized into domains controlling different functions. Distinct ...

Neuroscience created Oct 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research identifies protein that regulates key 'fate' decision in cortical progenitor cells

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved an important piece of one of neuroscience's outstanding puzzles: how progenitor cells in the developing mammalian brain reproduce themselves while also giving ...

Neuroscience created Sep 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New connections between brain cells form in clusters during learning

New connections between brain cells emerge in clusters in the brain as animals learn to perform a new task, according to a study published in Nature on February 19 (advance online publication). Led by resear ...

Neuroscience created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Barrow physicians chronicle Vladimir Betz in Brain

A team of physicians and scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute, in collaboration with colleagues in the Ukraine, have written a first-of-its-kind biography of Ukranian anatomist and histologist Vladimir Betz. The article, ...

Other created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0