A collection of articles on neural development from the collection of Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Select the links below for full-text access.
When trying to describe what inspires people to study the development of the nervous system, a line from Robert Louis Stevenson's El Dorado constantly springs to mind - "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive". The adult brain is undoubtedly fascinating, but developmental neuroscientists are more concerned with the journey that brings it to this state than with the destination itself. In fact, it might be argued that the journey never really ends because neuronal circuits in the brain are continually modified throughout life.
In this focus on neural development, we bring together for the benefit of our readers a series of articles on different aspects of neural development that we have published over the past six months. We hope that this focus will give you a taster for some of the questions that have occupied the minds of developmental neuroscientists for over a century. Enjoy the trip!
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