A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus, ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

Inhibition of LKKR2 may rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson’s disease that is caused by a single genetic mutation.

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Young and his team first confirmed that the proteins play several key roles in ensuring that synaptic vesicles which contain ...

Active vision dynamically refines spatiotemporal neural representations, optimising visual processing through scanning behaviour and non-associative learning, providing insights into efficient sensory ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition that affects a significant proportion of older people ...

UC Riverside study may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 2.3 ...

In this paper, new microcontroller based hardware for simulation of neurons is introduced. Excitable membranes with voltage-gated ionic channels can be modeled by using the hardware and current-clamp ...

Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the ...

Instead of relying on a single neuron, the brain uses the pattern of activity across many neurons to encode information to ...

Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness ...