The cerebral cortex is densely packed with different nerve cells that enable us to perceive, think and act. Yet how these ...

Cortical inhibitory neurons development takes three separate paths, a new Nature Neuroscience atlas reveals: some commit early, some diversify gradually, and one type is deliberately wired into ...

Brain stem cells cortical development works differently than scientists believed for 60 years: two parallel, fate-committed lineages build the cerebral cortex simultaneously from the first neurons -- ...

A new study demonstrates that neural stem cells in the developing cerebral cortex branch into parallel lineages early in ...

The cerebral cortex is densely packed with different nerve cells that enable us to perceive, think and act. Yet how these cell types arise while the brain develops is still not fully understood.

For more than 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same function are grouped into columns. Now, for the first time, researchers at the Max Planck ...

As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function cluster in columns. For over 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same ...

Perhaps our most defining characteristic as a species, the six-layered human cortex, hosts billions of neural connections that bestow Homo sapiens with higher-order thinking. But how does this ...