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Johns Hopkins Scientists Study How Neurons Create Connections During Development

August 12, 2015

Pretend for a moment that you’re a developing neuron in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Your cell body, which houses the command center of the neuron, sits in one out of the six cortical layers. Your job is to establish the proper connections with up to thousands of other neurons. How do you establish these connections? […]

Alisa Mo ⋅ Perspectives in Research Cerebral Cortex, Circuits, Connections, Neurons, protein ⋅

Neuroscience Graduate Student Driven by How the Brain ‘Sees’

June 22, 2015

Talking with Chanel Matney, a neuroscience graduate student in the Brown Lab, can send your mind racing in many different directions as she discusses her passions and interests and gives sage advice. A native Marylander from a family with diverse career paths ranging from medicine to performance art, Chanel is the sole basic science researcher. […]

Kevin Monk ⋅ A Day in the Life Brain, Brown Lab, Cerebral Cortex, Neurons, Neuroscience, Senses, Sensory, Thalamus ⋅

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