Novel ‘top-down’ mechanism repatterns developing brain regions

Dennis O’Leary of the Salk Institute was the first scientist to show that the basic functional architecture of the cortex, the largest part of the human brain, was genetically determined during development. But as it so often does in science, answering one question opened up many others. O’Leary wondered what if the layout of the cortex wasn’t fixed? What would happen if it were changed?

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/si-…