Celluar basis of cortico-cortical integration

新大脑皮层是构成所有认知功能的大脑区域。精神障碍，如精神分裂症，发生在新皮质神经细胞之间的通讯中断时。我们建议对从广泛分离的新皮质区域接受输入的神经元的薄过程进行电测量，以了解新皮质区域是如何在功能上相互联系的，最终目的是确定这些过程在精神障碍中是如何受到干扰的。

The neocortex is the region of the brain that underlies all cognitive functions. Mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, occur when the communication between nerve cells in the neocortex breaks down. We propose to make electrical measurements from the thin processes of neurons that receive input from widely separated neocortical areas to understand how areas of the neocortex are functionally interlinked, with the ultimate aim to identify how these processes are disturbed in mental disorders.