In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

The mammalian cerebral cortex is comprised of several major regions, including six-layer neocortex and architecturally more simple and phylogenetically older cortices, such as three-layer paleocortex, ...

GABAergic interneurons play key roles in cortical circuits, yet little is known about their early connectivity. Here we use glutamate uncaging and a novel optogenetic strategy to track changes in the ...