Minicolumns

In a 1978 essay Vernon Mountcastle called these minicolumns and suggested that they have about 100-300 neurons each. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He also suggested that these minicolumns are organized into macrocolumns, about 600,000 of them — implying that there are hundreds of minicolumns per macrocolumn. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He estimated that the neocortex consists of 600,000,000 of these minicolumns. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Minicolumns are very interesting we must learn more about them however I would like to raise this question could minicolumns be the reason why autistic people are more likely to have Synesthesia or seizures or both? ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the dyslexic brains had an abundance of long connections between cortical cell minicolumns, at the expense of short ones.

The research identified differences in brain tissue known as cortical cell minicolumns, which connect brain signals to process information.

They are usually described in terms of [[macrocolumns]] which consist of abouta n uncertain number of [[minicolumns]] (that may correspond to ontogenetic columns) that are found throughout the [[neocortex]], with a [[diameter]] of roughly 0. 5mm which is also about the [[distance]] between the [[center]] of two separate columns. ❋ Unknown (2009)