Neuronal migration errors: Right cells, wrong place
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
Normally, cortical nerve cells or neurons reside in the brain’s gray matter with only a few scattered neurons in the white matter, but some people with schizophrenia have a higher number of neurons in the white matter. Neuronal migration errors may arise in schizophrenia as a consequence of both genetic and environmental factors.