Bipolar disorder (BP) is a chronic psychiatric condition characterized by dynamic,
pathological mood fluctuations from mania to depression. To date, a major challenge in …

Cortical development consists of a series of synchronised events, including fate transition of
cortical progenitors, neuronal migration, specification and connectivity. It is becoming clear …

Background The evolutionary origin of the telencephalon, the most anterior part of the
vertebrate brain, remains obscure. Since no obvious counterpart to the telencephalon has …

Winged helix proteins have critical roles in a variety of developmental processes. During a
screening for genes expressed in the developing forebrain, we identified HSPC280, a non …

The evolutionary origin of the vertebrate telencephalon remains unsolved. A major
challenge has been the identification of homologous brain parts in invertebrate chordates …

I declare that:(i) the thesis is not one for which a degree has been or will be conferred by any
other university or institution;(ii) the thesis is not one for which a degree has already been …

" It was, above all, indispensable to explore the short axon corpuscles, insufficiently studied
by the aforementioned scholars (...) my investigations demonstrated that the functional …

In mammals, the proper execution of fine voluntary movements relies on complex, but highly
organized neuronal networks connecting various regions of the brain, such as the cerebral …