Volume 5 Issue 12, December 2002

Human neural stem cells could be used to treat many diseases, but a major problem with this approach is that these cells give rise to few neurons in the brain. Now a new priming method increases production of neurons after implantation, including the elusive cholinergic neurons.

A new approach to analyzing the responses of V4 cortical neurons to objects suggests how the brain could represent a wide variety of shapes with a limited number of components.

A new study using fMRI shows that the human frontal cortex—and not parietal cortex—is the primary locus of movement planning.

How much computation can one neuron do? A paper in Nature provides direct evidence that multiplication of two sensory variables may be instantiated at the single-cell level.