Building the gateway to consciousness - about the development of the thalamus

• Autor principal: Steffen Scholpp (auth)
• Otros Autores: Tomomi Shimogori (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Colección: Frontiers Research Topics
• Materias: Neurosciences; thalamic neurogenesis; Neurons; Thalamus; neural plate patterning; neural progenitor cells
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Since years, patterning and function of some brain parts such as the cortex in the forebrain and the optical tectum or cerebellum in the midbrain/hindbrain region are under strong investigation. Interestingly the diencephalon located in the caudal forebrain has been ignored for decades. Consequently...