The vertebrate habenula
A renowned neuroscientist, now retired from Cambridge University, once told me that he had been a graduate student in North America when he first came across the term “habenula”. For him and his course mates, the habenula provided a source of humor. Nobody knew what it did, but the word sounded unus...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1398242020-11-01T05:27:42Z The vertebrate habenula Jesuthasan, Suresh Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Science::Medicine Habenula Mutant A renowned neuroscientist, now retired from Cambridge University, once told me that he had been a graduate student in North America when he first came across the term “habenula”. For him and his course mates, the habenula provided a source of humor. Nobody knew what it did, but the word sounded unusual and provoked a lot of laughter. The anatomy of habenula neurons, with their unusual terminations of loops and spirals at the midline, was a source of wonderment. There was nothing else like it in the vertebrate brain. Accepted version 2020-05-22T02:09:14Z 2020-05-22T02:09:14Z 2018 Journal Article Jesuthasan, S. (2018). The vertebrate habenula. Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 78, 102. doi:10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.10.015 1084-9521 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139824 10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.10.015 29054820 2-s2.0-85033476199 78 102 102 en Seminars in cell & developmental biology © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Seminars in cell & developmental biology and is made available with permission of Elsevier Ltd. application/pdf |
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A renowned neuroscientist, now retired from Cambridge University, once told me that he had been a graduate student in North America when he first came across the term “habenula”. For him and his course mates, the habenula provided a source of humor. Nobody knew what it did, but the word sounded unusual and provoked a lot of laughter. The anatomy of habenula neurons, with their unusual terminations of loops and spirals at the midline, was a source of wonderment. There was nothing else like it in the vertebrate brain. |
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