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New study uncovers how brain cells form precise circuits before experience is able to shape wiring

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Yale researchers have identified how brain cells begin to coalesce into this wired network in early development.

It turns out that very early development follows the same rules as later development—cells that fire together wire together.

Spontaneous activity occurs during development in several other neural circuits, including in the spinal cord, hippocampus and cochlea.

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