How cool is this new work from the Bienkowski lab?
CA1 of mouse hippocampus has 4 layers of specialized cell types. "This...changes our understanding of how information is processed...and could explain why certain cells are more vulnerable in diseases like Alzheimer’s and epilepsy."
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Meredith Braskie
🚨 Our latest study from @neuralmapping.bsky.social and his team is out in @nature.com and reveals a hidden set of cellular layers inside the hippocampus, the brain’s key center for learning and memory 🧠
Learn more about this work and its implications for memory and disease: bit.ly/48NtGdf
Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have identified a previously unknown pattern of organization in one ...