Cortical microcircuits

Water and ion homeostasis in the developing brain: disease models impacting understanding of physiology

Huib Mansvelder and his team receive 1.25 million dollar from the NIH for their research on human brain cells.

First description of cholinergic modulation of long-term plasticity in human neocortex

Remco Klaassen’s and Jasper Stroeder’s work on the AMPA receptor auxiliary subunit Shisa6 appeared in Nature Communications

Hemanth Mohan and Thijs Verhoog published their paper reporting the first full quantitative neuronal morphologies of human pyramidal neurons including dendrites as well as axons.

Christiaan de Kock, Huib Mansvelder and collaborators publish two papers in Cerebral Cortex on the organizational principles of cortex in rat and human.