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Connectivity of mouse somatosensory and prefrontal cortex examined with trans-synaptic tracing
Woolsey, T.A. & Van der Loos, H. The structural organization of layer IV in the somatosensory region (SI) of mouse cerebral cortex. The description of a cortical field composed of discrete ...
ALZFORUM10y
Of Mice and Magnets—Can We Learn about Alzheimer's from Mini MRIs?
While connections between regions of the DMN are the first to falter in AD, in Grandjean’s study the ArcAβ somatosensory cortex developed the earliest and most obvious connectivity failures. Like the ...
Medical Xpress4y
Research shows what happens in the sensory cortex when learning and recognising patterns
More information: Sequence learning induces selectivity to multiple task parameters in mouse somatosensory cortex, Current Biology (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.059 ...
EurekAlert!1y
Multisensory information detection by using multi-channel electrocorticography film that can place over a wide area of the cerebral cortex
As a result, these advancements allow to successfully detect neural activity in the cerebral cortex that ... evoked by both somatosensory and olfactory stimuli in the same mouse, thereby enabling ...
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Scientists Gave a Mouse a Stretch of Human DNA and Its Brain Grew 6% Bigger
A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.
Medical Xpress2y
Researchers demonstrate near-non-invasive in-vivo imaging in mouse cortex at an unprecedented depth
In vivo 3P calcium imaging of spontaneous neuronal activity at different depths below pia of the somatosensory cortex of a CCK-GCaMP6s mouse (4-month-old) through the intact skull (110-μm ...
technologynetworks2y
The Brain's "Thermal Cortex" Has Been Discovered
“When we did this, the mouse didn't feel the temperature stimulus,” Poulet ... They are also studying one of the bigger puzzles of this study: why is the primary somatosensory cortex, which perceives ...
Science Daily4y
What happens in the sensory cortex when learning and recognizing patterns
Scientists are challenging the common understanding of how mammalian brains work. A study by scientists at the University of Sussex is challenging the common understanding of how mammalian brains ...
Science Daily6y
The sense of touch is formed in the brain before birth
Similar to a cartographic map, each represented region of the body in the somatosensory cortex is connected to its corresponding body surface thanks to the neuronal pathways that keep a strict ...
Scientific American3y
Where Are Genitals Represented in the Brain?
In 1950 neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield and a colleague published a depiction of a homunculus that wrapped around the somatosensory cortex and illustrated where the brain processed touch for specific ...
technologynetworks6y
2-Minute Neuroscience: Primary Somatosensory Cortex
In this video, Neuroscientifically challenged discusses the primary somatosensory cortex. The primary somatosensory cortex is responsible for processing somatic sensations, or sensations from the body ...