Diversity of inhibiting nerve cells allows for more complex
information processing
The hippocampus is a small structure in the brains of mammals
that plays a crucial role in processing input from our senses and allows
perceptions to be stored as memories. Nerve cells that inhibit the activity of
other cells have now been shown to play a much larger and more complex role in
these processes than previously assumed. Teams led by Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos
from the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools at the University of
Freiburg and Prof. Dr. Imre Vida from the Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure at
the hospital Charité in Berlin report these findings in the current issue of
the Journal of Neuroscience.