The nervous system regulates tissue stem and precursor populations throughout life.
Parallel to roles in development, the nervous system is emerging as a critical regulator of …

Vision is critical for the functional and structural maturation of connections in the mammalian
visual system. Visual experience, however, is a subset of a more general requirement for …

▪ Abstract Correlated spiking of pre-and postsynaptic neurons can result in strengthening or
weakening of synapses, depending on the temporal order of spiking. Recent findings …

Adjacent cells share ions, second messengers and small metabotes through intercellular
channels which are present in gap junctions. This type of intercellular communication …

In the develo** frog visual system, topographic refinement of the retinotectal projection
depends on electrical activity. In vivo whole-cell recording from develo** Xenopus tectal …

The rapid development of machine vision applications demands hardware that can sense
and process visual information in a single monolithic unit to avoid redundant data transfer …

Several lines of evidence indicate that the elaborated calcium signals and the occurrence of
calcium waves in astrocytes provide these cells with a specific form of excitability. The …

▪ Abstract Many pathways in the develo** visual system are restructured and become
highly organized even before vision occurs. Yet the developmental processes underlying …

The majority of neurons in the adult neocortex are produced embryonically during a brief but
intense period of neuronal proliferation. The radial glial cell, a transient embryonic cell type …

A distinct feature of the nervous system is the intricate network of synaptic connections
among neurons of diverse phenotypes. Although initial connections are formed largely …