🧠🔄 #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 ➡️ stem cells ➡️ neurons ➡️ implantation in newborn mice ➡️ adaptation to the host ➡️ 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