AIRIcerca’s communication strategy for 2018
We started our fifth year of activity in science popularization and communication with strong motivation and will to do even better. In this paper, we anticipate some of the upgrades…
Articles by Elia Magrinelli
Report of “The aging brain. Cellular mechanisms interfacing human pathology” Course, Sept 28-Oct 2, 2015, Torino, Italy
This course was part of the PhD program in Neuroscience of the University of Torino. Professors Annalisa Buffo, Silvia De Marchis e Maurizio Giustetto, organizers of this course, created a…
When membranes, proteins and salts create electricity
Neurons are the cells that constitute the fundamental working units of the nervous system. The most important function of these cells is to electrically excite their membranes to transmit information…
Report of the first “Cortical Evolution Conference”, May 18-20, 2015, Toledo, Spain
The “Museo del Ejercito” in the Spanish city of Toledo has hosted the first conference on the evolution of the cervical cortex. The meeting gathered about two hundred scientists among…
From dinosaurs to mammals: the evolutionary steps towards the modern neocortex
A key feature of all mammals is the ability to process the sensory information in a complex way. This capacity lies in the cerebral cortex, a structure of the nervous…
Report of the 9th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, July 5-9, 2014, Milan, Italy
The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) organised the 9th Forum of Neuroscience that was hosted by The Società Italiana di Neuroscienze (SINS) in Milan, from July 5 to 9,…
Report of the fifth meeting “Cortical Development”, May 22-25, 2014, Chania, Greece
The fifth meeting on the development of the cerebral cortex, ” Neural stem cells in neural circuits”, took place from the 22th to the 25th of May, 2014, on the…