Sentences with phrase «called pyramidal neurons»

When they mutated neuregulin 3 in neurons that help activate the brain — called pyramidal neurons — the genetically modified mice displayed behavior consistent with schizophrenia.

The team, led by CSHL Professor Z. Josh Huang and including researcher Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Mental Health, focused on dense crowds of excitatory cells called pyramidal neurons — several hundred of which can connect with a single chandelier cell.

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BRAIN CANDY A new database offers a deep look at living human nerve cells, revealing elaborate branching structures and myriad shapes, such as in this neuron called a pyramidal cell (cell image, left and 3 - D computer reconstruction, right).

A neuron called a pyramidal cell, for instance, has a bushy branch of dendrites (orange in 3 - D computer reconstruction, above) reaching up from its cell body (white circle).

It receives information via the so - called mossy fibres (MF), which originate in dentate gyrus neurons and, together with pyramidal neurons, form synapses in CA3; in this case MF - CA3 - synapses.

A recent generation of studies of postmortem brain tissue from people with schizophrenia, particularly from the laboratory of Professor David Lewis and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, have shed light on schizophrenia - related abnormalities in the interplay of the main excitatory neurons, pyramidal neurons, and a specific class of inhibitory nerve cells, called chandelier cells, in the prefrontal cortex.

Although pyramidal neurons have been always considered the backbone of the cortex and therefore dominated the interest of neuroscientists, a century ago, Ramòn y Cajal has predicted that interneurons, or as he called them, the butterflies of the soul, are responsible for refining cortical processing.