Perhaps our most defining characteristic as a species, the six-layered human cortex, hosts billions of neural connections that bestow Homo sapiens with higher-order thinking. But how does this ...

Sodium action potentials can propagate somatofugally into the dendritic tree of cortical pyramidal neurons 1, as shown by electrophysiology and optical imaging of [Ca 2+] in brain slices (for reviews, ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one ...