National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive brain-wide presynaptic inputs that encode behavioral states, refining our ...

Sergio Parra, Héctor Díaz, Antonio Zainos, Manuel Alvarez, Jerónimo Zizumbo, Natsuko Rivera-Yoshida, Sebastián Pujalte, Lucas Bayones, Ranulfo Romo, Román Rossi-Pool, Hierarchical unimodal processing ...

The somatosensory cortex is a region of the mammalian brain known to play a crucial role in the processing of sensory information, including tactile sensations, temperature and pain. While this ...

The researchers studied cells in the primary somatosensory cortex using brain tissue from mice. They combined several methods in their experimental series: using the patch-clamp technique, they ...