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To explore this, the researchers used a genetically engineered mouse model that mimics ... Treated mice showed less shrinkage in key brain regions and thicker layers of neurons in the dentate gyrus ...

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The barrel cortex consists of the regions of the primary somatosensory cortex that receive input from the whiskers via the thalamus. Barrel cortex is organized into cylindrical columns of neurons ...

Article Published: August 1998 Dopaminergic regulation of cerebral cortical microcirculation Leonid S. Krimer, E. Christopher Muly III, Graham V. Williams & Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic Nature ...

This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...

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Based on several lines of interesting data, the authors conclude that FMRP, though associated with stalled ribosomes, does not determine the position on the mRNAs at which ribosomes stall. Although ...