πŸ§ πŸ”„ #NeuroThursday

This week: Human assembloids & thalamocortical loops

#ji-ilkim & #sergiupasca show how CACNA1G variants disrupt projections and its link to schizophrenia

Do calcium channels shape neural loops? Check out!

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.020

#spp #neuroscience #brainloops

So... skin cells ➑️ stem cells ➑️ neurons ➑️ implantation in newborn mice ➑️ adaptation to the host ➑️ functioning neuron? 🀯

#science #psychiatry #neurology #brain #news #research #nature #StemCells #neurons #Inverse #Stanford #autism #schizophrenia #MentalHealth #SergiuPasca

https://www.inverse.com/science/inverse-breakthrough-awards-sergiu-pasca-neuroscience-psychiatry-autism

This neuroscientist’s breakthrough experiment could herald a new era of psychiatry

After a transformation of his own, neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca is shifting psychiatric research at large by performing transformations at the cellular level.

Inverse