The human brain is known to store various memories for long periods of time, progressively learning from new experiences and ...

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

Scientists have identified a potential new target for treating Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. The discovery promises to halt or even reverse the disease process. Alzheimer's disease ...

New research reveals that individual neurons in the hippocampus can respond to both slow and fast brain waves at the same ...

Scientists have recently completed the most ambitious effort yet to construct such a map: a complete document of every neuron and every connection in the brain of an adult fruit fly.

But how do brain cells send messages? The first step in this messaging process is the action potential, or a wave of electricity triggered in the nerve cell, or neuron.The neurons found in the ...

A protein found in our cells has emerged as a secret weapon against biological aging, acting like a glue to repair damaged ...

The team tested the technique by converting mouse skin cells to motor neurons. And sure enough, this resulted in a yield of over 1,000%. The resulting motor neurons were found to produce ...

The research represents the first such map for an animal that can walk and see, ... It’s non-trivial to define a “typical” neuron, as evident by the amount of cell types (over 8,000) ...