Wang (left) and Cao Researchers at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells ...

These provide for a larger total surface area within a condensed space—and hence more room for neurons—than would a totally smooth layer of brain cells. Beneath the Cortex Buried in the core ...

The real key is understanding how these cells communicate in real time ... A small world after all The cerebral cortex is the central hub for coordinating behaviour and cognition in the brain.

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 ...

Fear isn’t just a reflex—it’s something the brain can unlearn. Scientists found that the vLGN, not the cortex, holds the key to overcoming instinctive fears, opening doors to new mental health ...

They're mysterious cells in the brain's visual cortex called OPCs. The visual cortex processes everything we see. Incoming visual information is relayed to this outer layer of the brain via ...

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 ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan ...

First, we prepared astrocyte cultures in petri dishes by extracting immature astrocytes from the cerebral cortex of newborn mice and expanding the cell population. To track the development of ...

Some of these cells probably got trapped in the tight curves of tiny blood vessels in an area of the brain called the cortex. More plastic-packed cells would sometimes pile on — “like a car ...