The habenula is a phylogenetically old brain structure that is present in virtually all vertebrate species. It receives inputs from the limbic system and the basal ganglia and sends outputs to ...

This pathway depends on the crossing of neurons from one side of the central nervous system (CNS ... during the development of the visual system in vertebrates exemplifies the diversity that ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

"Retroviruses were required for vertebrate evolution to take off ... the cells that produce myelin in the central nervous ...