Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

Nature has developed a unique structure as a scaffold for almost all nerve cells: the membrane-associated periodic skeleton ...

Learning is something everyone does daily—mastering new skills at work, remembering song lyrics, or following directions to ...

Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal ...

Lion's Mane mushroom, known for its unique appearance resembling a lion's mane, offers various health benefits, particularly ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Listen to Story They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample The tissue sample was the size of a grain of sand It has over 200,000 cells including roughly 84,000 nerve cells ...

“Parkinson’s disease causes specific nerve cells – neurons – to die, leading to symptoms that include difficulties moving, tremor, stiffness, and impaired balance,” said Florey Deputy ...

Our results indicate that aberrant midline crossing by motor neuron cell bodies and axons in mice lacking Robo1 and Robo2 are not interdependent and that DCC contributes to axon, but not cell body ...

So his team created four different brain organoids, spherical clumps of human nerve cells that grow in a dish ... a model of a human neural tube, the structure in an embryo that becomes the ...