Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative technique to non-invasively measure two key signals, membrane voltage and intracellular calcium levels, at the same time, in neurons ...

Understanding how new neurons affect brain function throughout adulthood can offer new approaches to treating epilepsy and dementia.

Synapses – the junctions between two neurons – are formed in their millions during early life, and then pruned as the brain’s functions are refined over time.

Glial cells help support, connect, and protect the neurons of the central and peripheral nervous systems. They come in many shapes, sizes, and types, each performing specialized functions.

Importantly, our finding that new neurons function differently in mice and in humans emphasizes the critical need to study biological functions like neurogenesis in people whenever possible. This will ...

Researchers have developed the first metal–organic framework (MOF) neuron that mimics brain-like behavior in aqueous ...

Scientists have detailed how a combination of grafted replacement motor neurons and optical nerve stimulation—using light to activate neurons—can improve muscle function in a highly aggressive ...

Cellular differentiation of stem cells into specialized cells requires many steps, including division, to create more cells; fate determination, which is a commitment to a specific lineage or ...

This simulating connectome will be indispensable as biophysicists continue to understand how fly neurons function, and can refine this massive work.

Researchers have described signaling mechanisms that determine how olfactory stem cells transition into olfactory neurons that are responsible for our sense of smell.

The most common type of brain tumor in children, pilocytic astrocytoma (PA), accounts for about 15% of all pediatric brain ...