Transient cortical circuits match spontaneous and sensory-driven activity during development

Z Molnár, HJ Luhmann, PO Kanold - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND During early mammalian brain development, transient neurons and circuits
form the scaffold for the development of neuronal networks. In the immature cerebral cortex …

Development and arealization of the cerebral cortex

CR Cadwell, A Bhaduri, MA Mostajo-Radji, MG Keefe… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Adult cortical areas consist of specialized cell types and circuits that support unique higher-
order cognitive functions. How this regional diversity develops from an initially uniform …
L Telley, G Agirman, J Prados, N Amberg, S Fièvre… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The cerebral cortex is a cellularly heterogeneous structure whose
neuronal circuits underlie high-order cognitive and sensorimotor information processing …

Whole-cortex in situ sequencing reveals input-dependent area identity

X Chen, S Fischer, MCP Rue, A Zhang, D Mukherjee… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The cerebral cortex is composed of neuronal types with diverse gene expression that are
organized into specialized cortical areas. These areas, each with characteristic …

The neocortical circuit: themes and variations

KD Harris, GMG Shepherd - Nature neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Similarities in neocortical circuit organization across areas and species suggest a common
strategy to process diverse types of information, including sensation from diverse modalities …

A comprehensive transcriptional map of primate brain development

TE Bakken, JA Miller, SL Ding, SM Sunkin, KA Smith… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The transcriptional underpinnings of brain development remain poorly understood,
particularly in humans and closely related non-human primates. We describe a high …

Anatomically and functionally distinct thalamocortical inputs to primary and secondary mouse whisker somatosensory cortices

S El-Boustani, BS Sermet, G Foustoukos… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Subdivisions of mouse whisker somatosensory thalamus project to cortex in a region-
specific and layer-specific manner. However, a clear anatomical dissection of these …

Making Ramón y Cajal proud: Development of cell identity and diversity in the cerebral cortex

DJ Di Bella, N Domínguez-Iturza, JR Brown, P Arlotta - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Since the beautiful images of Santiago Ramón y Cajal provided a first glimpse into the
immense diversity and complexity of cell types found in the cerebral cortex, neuroscience …

Sequential transcriptional waves direct the differentiation of newborn neurons in the mouse neocortex

L Telley, S Govindan, J Prados, I Stevant, S Nef… - Science, 2016 - science.org
During corticogenesis, excitatory neurons are born from progenitors located in the
ventricular zone (VZ), from where they migrate to assemble into circuits. How neuronal …

Modular strategy for development of the hierarchical visual network in mice

T Murakami, T Matsui, M Uemura, K Ohki - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Hierarchical and parallel networks are fundamental structures of the mammalian brain,,,,,,–.
During development, lower-and higher-order thalamic nuclei and many cortical areas in the …