Development of prefrontal cortex

SM Kolk, P Rakic - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
During evolution, the cerebral cortex advances by increasing in surface and the introduction
of new cytoarchitectonic areas among which the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is considered to be …

Excitation-inhibition balance as a framework for investigating mechanisms in neuropsychiatric disorders

VS Sohal, JLR Rubenstein - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract In 2003 Rubenstein and Merzenich hypothesized that some forms of Autism (ASD)
might be caused by a reduction in signal-to-noise in key neural circuits, which could be the …

Individual human cortical progenitors can produce excitatory and inhibitory neurons

RN Delgado, DE Allen, MG Keefe, WR Mancia Leon… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The cerebral cortex is a cellularly complex structure comprising a rich diversity of neuronal
and glial cell types. Cortical neurons can be broadly categorized into two classes …

Brain organoids: advances, applications and challenges

X Qian, H Song, G Ming - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Brain organoids are self-assembled three-dimensional aggregates generated from
pluripotent stem cells with cell types and cytoarchitectures that resemble the embryonic …

Development and functional diversification of cortical interneurons

L Lim, D Mi, A Llorca, O Marín - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
In the cerebral cortex, GABAergic interneurons have evolved as a highly heterogeneous
collection of cell types that are characterized by their unique spatial and temporal …

The rise of three-dimensional human brain cultures

SP Pașca - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Pluripotent stem cells show a remarkable ability to self-organize and differentiate in vitro in
three-dimensional aggregates, known as organoids or organ spheroids, and to recapitulate …

Comprehensive cell atlas of the first-trimester developing human brain

E Braun, M Danan-Gotthold, LE Borm, KW Lee… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The adult human brain comprises more than a thousand distinct neuronal and glial cell
types, a diversity that emerges during early brain development. To reveal the precise …

Hippocampal GABAergic inhibitory interneurons

KA Pelkey, R Chittajallu, MT Craig… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
In the hippocampus GABAergic local circuit inhibitory interneurons represent only~ 10–15%
of the total neuronal population; however, their remarkable anatomical and physiological …

Developmental diversification of cortical inhibitory interneurons

C Mayer, C Hafemeister, RC Bandler, R Machold… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Diverse subsets of cortical interneurons have vital roles in higher-order brain functions. To
investigate how this diversity is generated, here we used single-cell RNA sequencing to …

A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

R Yuste, M Hawrylycz, N Aalling, A Aguilar-Valles… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To understand the function of cortical circuits, it is necessary to catalog their cellular
diversity. Past attempts to do so using anatomical, physiological or molecular features of …