Axons are guided along specific pathways by attractive and repulsive cues in the
extracellular environment. Genetic and biochemical studies have led to the identification of …

Blood vessels and nerve fibres course throughout the body in an orderly pattern, often
alongside one another. Although superficially distinct, the mechanisms involved in wiring …

The mammalian central nervous system (CNS) contains a remarkable array of neural cells,
each with a complex pattern of connections that together generate perceptions and higher …

Eph receptor tyrosine kinases mould the behaviour of many cell types by binding membrane-
anchored ligands, ephrins, at sites of cell–cell contact. Eph signals affect both of the …

Principles of Neurobiology, Second Edition presents the major concepts of neuroscience
with an emphasis on how we know what we know. The text is organized around a series of …

In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the
nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome project to the …

The control of cell movement during development is essential for forming and stabilizing the
spatial organization of tissues and cell types. During initial steps of tissue patterning, distinct …

The patterning of skeletal muscle is thought to depend upon signals provided by motor
neurons. We show that AChR gene expression and AChR clusters are concentrated in the …

Brain connections are organized into topographic maps that are precisely aligned both
within and across modalities. This alignment facilitates coherent integration of different …

The visual system is beautifully crafted to transmit information of the external world to visual
processing and cognitive centers in the brain. For visual information to be relayed to the …