Astrocytes are a large and diverse population of morphologically complex cells that exist
throughout nervous systems of multiple species. Progress over the last two decades has …

During nervous system development, neurons extend axons to reach their targets and form
functional circuits. The faulty assembly or disintegration of such circuits results in disorders …

Proper patterning of the nervous system requires that developing axons find appropriate
postsynaptic partners; this entails microns to meters of extension through an extracellular …

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a powerful experimental setting for uncovering
fundamental tenets of nervous system organization and function. Its nearly invariant and …

Initiating drug use during adolescence increases the risk of developing addiction or other
psychopathologies later in life, with long-term outcomes varying according to sex and exact …

The spinal cord receives, relays and processes sensory information from the periphery and
integrates this information with descending inputs from supraspinal centres to elicit precise …

A dramatic maturational process ongoing in adolescence is prefrontal cortex development,
including its dopamine innervation. Dopamine axons grow from the striatum to the prefrontal …

Despite increasing availability and more successful interventional approaches to restore
coronary reperfusion, myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury is a substantial cause of …

Glia are abundant components of animal nervous systems. Recognized 170 years ago,
concerted attempts to understand these cells began only recently. From these investigations …

Left-Right (LR) asymmetry of the nervous system is widespread across animals and is
thought to be important for cognition and behaviour. But in contrast to visceral organ …