Using area-, layer- and cell-type-specific expression of a high-efficiency ChR mutant, we provide causal evidence that layer II/III pyramidal neurons, preferrentially driven by light to fire at ...

More information: Simon Musall et al, Pyramidal cell types drive functionally distinct cortical activity patterns during decision-making, Nature Neuroscience (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01245 ...

The brain is, in fact, structured in layers like an onion and each layer is defined by the cell types that populate it, which have been given descriptive names like pyramidal, chandelier and ...

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 ...

Detail of a pyramidal cell. Dendrites are red and orange. The axon is blue. Source: Allen Institute for Brain Science Neuroscience got its start more than 100 years ago when Santiago Ramon y Cajal ...