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Specific signaling and transcription factors are known to tightly regulate patterning of the dorsal telencephalon to afford proper structural/functional cortical arealization and morphogenesis.

This work presents a conceptual advance on our understanding of the habenula in vertebrate species, by revealing interesting functions to specific cell types within this region of the brain. To ...