McGill Researchers Map 38 Neuropeptide Receptors Across the Human Brain, Revealing How Ancient Signaling Molecules Shaped Higher Cognition
A Nature Neuroscience study from the Montreal Neurological Institute constructs the first whole-brain atlas of 14 neuropeptide families, uncovering a cortical-subcortical gradient and evidence that neuropeptide refinement coincided with the evolutionary emergence of the neocortex.
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