The discovery of the pyramidal neurons: Vladimir Betz and a new era of neuroscience

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 285-300

  Kushchayev, Sergiy V ^a   Moskalenko, Vitaliy F ^b   Wiener, Philip C ^a   Tsymbaliuk, Vitaliy I ^b,c   Cherkasov, Viktor G ^b   Dzyavulska, Irina V ^b   Kovalchuk, Oleksander I ^b   Sonntag, Volker K H ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a   Preul, Mark C ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOGOMOLETS NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c Institute of Neurosurgery Ams of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Betz cells; cortex; pyramidal cells; Vladimir Betz

Indexed keywords

CARMINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; FRONTAL GYRUS; HEMISPHERE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIST; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 84856741242     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr276     Document Type: Article

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