The functioning of the nervous system depends upon the underlying detailed and highly
stereotyped patterns of neuronal connectivity. How these precise patterns of synaptic …

The goal of neural science is to understand the biological dent sensory elements such as
size, color, brightness, mechanisms that account for mental activity. Neural scimovement …

A Drosophila homolog of human Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (DSCAM), an
immunoglobulin superfamily member, was isolated by its affinity to Dock, an SH3/SH2 …

We used the enhancer detection/GAL4 system in Drosophila to direct increased levels of
Fasciclin II (Fas II) expression on motoneuron growth cones and axons and to direct ectopic …

* Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Biochemistry and Molecuiar Biophysics
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior Columbia University New York, New York 10032 …

Motor neurons in the embryonic chick spinal cord express a homeobox gene, Islet-1, soon
after their final mitotic division and before the appearance of other differentiated motor …

Fluorescent dextran amines have recently been reported to be useful for anterograde
pathway tracing. However, fluorescent markers are not always ideal for detailed mapping …

Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these eight important and fascinating
essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective …

In the embryonic nervous system, developing axons can be guided to their targets by
diffusible factors secreted by their intermediate and final cellular targets. To date only one …

David Van Vactor, Helen Sink, Douglas Fambrough, Rosalie Tsoo, and Corey S. Goodman
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of …