Time-keeping brain neurones discovered

Groups of neurones that precisely keep time have been discovered in the primate brain by a team of researchers that includes Dezhe Jin, assistant professor of physics at Penn State University and two neuroscientists from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 'This research is the first time that precise time-keeping activities have been identified in recordings of neurone activity,' Jin said. The time-keeping neurones are in two interconnected brain regions, the prefrontal cortex and the striatum, both of which are known to play critical roles in learning, movement, and thought control...

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