International Press - Thinking Outside the Column

Blick über den Säulenrand / Thinking outside the column
Neue Erkenntnisse zum Aufbau des Gehirns geben Aufschlüsse über seine Arbeitsweise:

Boucsein C, Nawrot MP, Schnepel P and Aertsen A (2011)
Beyond the cortical column: abundance and physiology of horizontal connections imply a strong role for inputs from the surround. Front. Neurosci. 5:32. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00032

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Wide cylinder, not slender column: a
nerve cell of the cortex receives much of
its input from the wider surroundings
(yellow), not just from the narrow column
(blue) of its direct vicinity.

(Credit: Boucsein, University of Freiburg)