What happens to the temporary scaffolding cells that help build the brain during development, and could their remnants explain cognitive disorders? Neuroscientist Zoltan Molnar from the University of Oxford returns to the Convergent Science Network podcast after 11 years to discuss how transient cell populations in the subplate regulate cortical circuit formation, and why the prolonged timeline of human brain development may be both a vulnerability and an evolutionary advantage. Subscribe for more from the Convergent Science Network podcast series. Zoltan Molnar, a leading expert on cortical development and subplate neurobiology at the University of Oxford, joins Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott at the BCBT school for a follow-up conversation more than a decade after his first CSN interview. The discussion centers on how the brain's prolonged dev ...