Charles P Taylor

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I have recently found concentration of a2d protein, apparently in glial endfeet near capillaries in brain. What other proteins are localized there?

Calcium channel a2d protein (CaVa2d1) is the drug target for gabapentin and pregabalin for analgesia, epilepsy and anxiety. a2d protein also interacts directly with thrombospondin1 and...

29 November 2016 8,677 4 View

Why is the mammalian neocortex 1.5 to 2.0 mm thick, regardless of the size of the animal?

Has anyone published serious ideas about why this might be so? I would guess perhaps to optimize access of neocortical neurons to large numbers of afferent axons, but this is only a guess.

20 March 2014 4,987 23 View

Why is our perception of our own visual environment stable (non-moving)?

The visual system is perhaps the best understood visual system of mammalian brain. However, one question has always bothered me... How can our perception of the visual world (e.g. flowers in a...

31 July 2013 4,488 40 View