Discovery of schedule for circuit formation in the hippocampus
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 17:00
in Biology & Nature
Neurobiologists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have determined the schedule of neuronal circuitry assembly in the hippocampus. As published online in Nature Neuroscience, they are the first to show that in the hippocampus, subpopulations of neurons follow a defined schedule for maturation, forming of synapses and connecting in circuits. This knowledge will be important for the understanding of memory formation.
