Errant gardeners: glial-cell-dependent synaptic pruning and neurodevelopmental disorders

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 658 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.110 Authors: Urte Neniskyte & Cornelius T. Gross The final stage of brain development is associated with the generation and maturation of neuronal synapses. However, the same period is also associated with a peak in synapse elimination — a process known as synaptic pruning — that has been proposed to be crucial for
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