Axon and dendritic guidance is the biological process by which growing axons and dendrites orient and navigate to their targets during the development of the nervous system.

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Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what ...

This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...