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Song for Thom Gunn There is no east or west in the wood you fear and seek, stumbling past a gate of moss and what you would not take. And what you thought you had (the Here that is no rest) you make from it an aid to form no east, no west. No east. No west. No need for given map or bell, vehicle, screen, or speed. Forget the house, forget the hill. Taking its title from a set of writings found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, From the Book of Giants retunes the signal broadcast from these ancient fragments, transmitting a new sound in the shape of a Roman drain cover, in imitations of Dante and Martial, in the voice of a cricket and the hard-boiled American photographer Weegee, in elegies both public and personal, and in poems that range from the social speech of letters to the gnomic language of riddles. Out of poetry's "complex of complaint and praise," Joshua Weiner discovers, in one poem, his own complicity in Empire during his son's baseball game at the White House. In another, an embroidered parrot sings a hermetic nursery rhyme to an infant after 9/11.

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The formation of the proper pattern of neuronal circuits during development is critical for the normal function of the vertebrate brain and for the survival of the organism. Circuit tracing studies spanning the past 100 years have revealed the beauty and exquisite intricacy of this pattern, which represents the most complex biological system known. In humans, aberrant circuit formation is a likely underlying cause of a wide variety of birth defects and neurological disorders, including autism, intellectual disability, and schizophrenia. Furthermore, future therapeutic approaches to restoring the function of damaged neural circuits will require a better understanding of the developmental constraints under which those circuits were originally assembled. For these reasons, elucidating the molecular mechanisms of neural circuit formation is a major goal of neurobiology today.Substantial progress towards this goal has been made over the past decade, and the pace of research in the field continues to accelerate with the development of novel molecular techniques and a wider variety of genetic model systems, including zebrafish and nematodes in addition to fruit flies and mice. The aim of this Research Topic is to bring together the many strands of research that shed light on the mechanisms driving neural circuit formation: studies of the differentiation of distinct neuronal subtypes; the formation of dendritic arbors and the elaboration of postsynaptic spines; the pathfinding, targeting, and branching of axons; the proper apposition of specific pre- and post-synaptic terminals; the emerging role of glial cells in facilitating synaptogenesis and synapse elimination; and the mutations behind the aberrant circuitry that leads to neurological disorders. We seek to highlight not only newly identified molecular mechanisms, but also technical advances that have allowed progress in the field to grow exponentially, including novel imaging techniques and the proliferation of large-scale “-omics” studies. We hope that this Research Topic will provide a forum for top researchers in the field to present new data, formulate novel hypotheses and models, and critically review recent progress in each step of neural circuit formation.

Neuroscience --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- neural circuit --- dendrite arborization --- Cell Adhesion Molecules --- axon guidance --- synapse formation