{"id":170781,"date":"2023-08-28T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/mathematical-rule-behind-brain-cell-location-discovered"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:22:46","slug":"mathematical-rule-behind-brain-cell-location-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/mathematical-rule-behind-brain-cell-location-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical Rule Behind Brain Cell Location Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematical-rule-behind-brain-cell-location-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HBP researchers from Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich and the University of Cologne (Germany) have uncovered how neuron densities are distributed across and within cortical areas in the mammalian brain. They have unveiled a fundamental organisational principle of cortical cytoarchitecture: the ubiquitous lognormal distribution of neuron densities.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers of neurons and their spatial arrangement play a crucial role in shaping the brain\u2019s structure and function. Yet, despite the wealth of available cytoarchitectonic data, the statistical distributions of neuron densities remain largely undescribed. The new HBP study, published in <i>Cerebral Cortex<\/i>, advances our understanding of the organisation of mammalian brains.<\/p>\n<p>The team based their investigations on nine publicly available datasets of seven species: mouse, marmoset, macaque, galago, owl monkey, baboon and human. After analysing the cortical areas of each, they found that neuron densities within these areas follow a consistent pattern \u2013 a lognormal distribution. This suggests a fundamental organisational principle underlying the densities of neurons in the mammalian brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBP researchers from Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich and the University of Cologne (Germany) have uncovered how neuron densities are distributed across and within cortical areas in the mammalian brain. They have unveiled a fundamental organisational principle of cortical cytoarchitecture: the ubiquitous lognormal distribution of neuron densities. Numbers of neurons and their spatial arrangement play a crucial role [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}