Welcome to Neural Development

Andrew Lumsden¹ , Bill Harris² , Joshua R Sanes³ and Rachel Wong⁴

¹MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 1UL, UK

²Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK

³Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA 02138, USA

⁴Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, HSB G514, Seattle, Washington 98195-7420, USA

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Neural Development 2006, 1:1doi:10.1186/1749-8104-1-1


Published:	13 October 2006

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Understanding how the nervous system develops poses one of the greatest challenges in biology. The nervous system is highly complex yet strikingly precise, both in its structural order and in its ability to perform the many functions required for survival and interaction with the environment. Such precision demands that key events at every developmental stage are executed properly and are coordinated to produce the circuitry underlying each of the adult nervous system's functions.