The sense of proprioception allows us to keep track of our limb posture and movements and
the sense of touch provides us with information about objects with which we come into …

Interactions between subregions of somatosensory cortex during nociceptive stimulation are
accompanied by clinically relevant alterations of cortical responses to myelinated and …

Objective: To determine whether differences exist in the configuration of minicolumns
between the brains of autistic and control patients. Background: Autism is a severe and …

The minicolumn is a continuing source of research and debate more than half a century after
it was identified as a component of brain organization. The minicolumn is a sophisticated …

Whole‐cell patch‐clamp recordings followed by histochemical staining and single‐cell RT‐
PCR were obtained from 180 Martinotti interneurones located in layers II to VI of the …

The cerebral cortex, occupying over 70 percent of our brain mass, is key to any
understanding of the workings--and disorders--of the human brain. offering a …

Few morphological differences have been identified so far that distinguish the human brain
from the brains of our closest relatives, the apes. Comparative analyses of the spatial …

The dual nature of touch has long been understood. The sense of touch seems to carry
information at the same time about the external object touching our skin, and also about our …

Neuroanatomists from Cajal on (1) have searched in the cerebral cortex for units of structural
organization that transcend the laminar pattern visible even to the untutored eye in Nissl …

Background A number of neurophysiological characteristics demonstrated in autism share
the common theme of under-connectivity in the cerebral cortex. One of the prominent …