Introducing Neuroscience

Shrub cells are true to form

Researchers are closer to a complete parts list of the brain

illustration of a shrub cell

BRANCHING OUT  A bushy topknot earned shrub cells like the one in this illustration their name. 

X. JIANG, D. BERGER, A. TOLIAS 

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

It didn’t take a lot of brainpower to come up with the name for a nerve cell that looks like a bushy, round tangle of fibers perched atop a nucleus.