The evolution of brain wiring: Navigating to the neocortex
Monday, March 28, 2011 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
A new study is providing fascinating insight into how projections conveying sensory information in the brain are guided to their appropriate targets in different species. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 24 issue of the journal Neuron, reveals a surprising new evolutionary scenario that may help to explain how subtle changes in the migration of 'guidepost' neurones underlie major differences in brain connectivity between mammals and nonmammalian vertebrates...