Human Neurons Continue to Migrate After Birth, Research Finds
Monday, October 10, 2016 - 10:51
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered a previously unknown mass migration of inhibitory neurons into the brain’s frontal cortex during the first few months after birth, revealing a stage of brain development that had previously gone unrecognized. The authors hypothesize that this late-stage migration may play a role in establishing fundamentally human cognitive abilities […]