New research reveals that individual neurons in the hippocampus can respond to both slow and fast brain waves at the same ...

This finding will be invaluable for developing better models for the processing going on in the hippocampus. More information ...

Their cell bodies have a unique pyramidal shape that is the source of their name. They make up about two-thirds of all neurons in the cerebral cortex of mammals, making them important for many ...

CA1 pyramidal neurons act as the output cells of a well-studied circuit in the hippocampus. The cells all share a characteristic shape and reside in the same structure in the brain. But according ...

These pyramidal cell neurons are further divided into two branches: one branch reaches the opposite side of the hippocampus via corpus callosum; the other branch connects to CA1 through Schaffer ...

In each hippocampus’s CA3 area, humans have about 1.7 million nerve cells called pyramidal cells. This subregion is thought to be the most internally connected part of the brain in mammals.

the authors investigate the synapse between granule cells and CA3 pyramidal cells in the hippocampus, using a recently developed method to simultaneously stimulate the individual presynaptic ...

Figure 1: A fluorescence micrograph of a CA1 in a mouse’s hippocampus. RIKEN researchers silenced the pyramidal cells in this region. Reproduced from Ref. 1 and ...