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Newborn Neurons in the Adult Brain Can Settle in the Wrong Neighborhood

Caption: Newborn neurons lacking cdk5 (green) extend aberrant dendrites that nonetheless synaptically integrate into the pre-existing dentate circuitry containing neurons (red) and glial cells (blue).

Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Sebastian Jessberger, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.

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