The human brain's advanced cognitive capabilities are often attributed to our recently evolved neocortex. Comparison of human and rodent brains shows that the human cortex is thicker, contains more ...

Researchers in the Jonas group at ISTA applied this question to the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for memory ...

Video screenshot: Network of interconnected CA3 pyramidal neurons in the mouse hippocampus: In young mice, the CA3 network is very dense, and the connections appear random (yellow). Network of ...

Neurons filled with biocytin—a tracer that labels them during recording—are fixed and stained to allow full reconstruction of their shapes. © Jose Guzman / Jonas ...