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Enumeration of Neural Stem Cells Using Clonal Assays
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2016
Neural stem cells (NSCs) refer to cells which can self-renew and differentiate into the three neural lineages. Here, we describe a protocol to determine NSC frequency in a given cell population using neurosphere formation and differentiation under clonal conditions.
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Neural Activity Propagation in an Unfolded Hippocampal Preparation with a Penetrating Micro-electrode Array
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2015
We have developed an in vitro unfolded hippocampus which preserves CA1-CA3 array of neurons. Combined with the penetrating micro-electrode array, neural activity can be monitored in both the longitudinal and transverse orientations. This method provides advantages over hippocampal slice preparations as the propagation in the entire hippocampus can be recorded simultaneously.
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Isolation and Culture of Neural Crest Cells from Embryonic Murine Neural Tube
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2012
Isolation of embryonic neural crest from the neural tube facilitates the use of in vitro methods for studying migration, self-renewal, and multipotency of neural crest.
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Neural-Colony Forming Cell Assay: An Assay To Discriminate Bona Fide Neural Stem Cells from Neural Progenitor Cells
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2011
This video protocol demonstrates how to discriminate and enumerate bona fide neural stem cells in a mixed population of neural precursor cells using the neural colony-forming cell assay.
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Differentiating Human Neural Stem Cells into Neural and Astrocyte Progenitors
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2025
This video demonstrates the method to differentiate human neural stem cells from neurospheres into neural and astrocyte progenitors using enzymatic treatment and culturing in a growth factor-rich medium, which eventually leads to maturation into specialized progenitor cells.
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The balance between excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs determines which signals become more influential within a neural circuit. Excitatory activity promotes the transmission of information, whereas inhibitory activity limits or filters competing signals. This balance allows interconnected networks to organize incoming information rather than responding equally to every signal, supporting selective perception and coordinated behavior.
Sensory signals do not receive identical interpretations in every situation. Internal states and prior experience contribute additional information that neural networks combine with current input. As a result, the same sensory event may be organized or interpreted differently depending on what the individual has previously learned or is currently experiencing, linking biological processing with perception and decision-making.
At the synaptic level, neurons combine excitatory and inhibitory signals arriving from connected cells. At the network level, interconnected brain regions select, organize, and interpret information across broader patterns of activity. These levels are related but not interchangeable: local signal processing supplies the building blocks, while network coordination supports complex outcomes such as attention, memory, emotion, and action.
Perception depends on organizing sensory information into a meaningful experience, while attention involves selecting some information for greater processing than other input. Neural integration provides a biological basis for both functions by combining incoming signals with other relevant influences. Studying this relationship helps psychologists connect patterns of nervous-system activity with what people notice, interpret, and respond to.
Researchers can use neural integration as a framework for examining learning, memory, emotion, and motor control in addition to perception and attention. Each area reflects coordinated processing between neural activity and observable behavior. Comparing these functions can clarify how the nervous system supports changes in knowledge, emotional responses, remembered information, and the organization of movement.
Changes in brain connectivity or signaling may disrupt how information is selected, organized, or interpreted. Neural integration therefore offers a way to relate altered biological activity to differences in cognition and behavior. In psychology, this perspective supports research into disorders by connecting neural mechanisms with observable difficulties in perception, learning, emotion, decision-making, or motor control.