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Nature Neuroscience 10, 1081 - 1082 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0907-1081

Amygdala and neocortex: common origins and shared mechanisms

Jan M Deussing1 & Wolfgang Wurst1

  1. The authors are at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstrasse 2-10, 80804 Munich, Germany, and GSF - National Research Center of Environment and Health, the Institute of Developmental Genetics, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany. e-mail: wurst@gsf.de


Precursors in the dorsal pallium were thought to give rise exclusively to neocortex during development. A new study finds that a stream of migrating cells from this area also gives rise to a nucleus in the amygdaloid complex.

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