Hundreds of different types of neurons make up the neural circuits in our brains. Over the years, scientists have discovered many details about those ...

Midbrain neurons are susceptible to energy shortages as they age, which may explain their degeneration in Parkinson’s disease ...

Dopamine neurons in a part of the brain called the midbrain may, with aging, be increasingly susceptible to a vicious spiral ...

For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion. The finding, reported in the journal Nature, ...

On Wednesday (May 9), researchers reported in Nature that they created a “neuronal cookbook” of 76 transcriptional codes from which they can create different kinds of neurons from mouse fibroblast ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive brain-wide presynaptic inputs that encode behavioral states, refining our ...

Louis-Jan Pilaz carves out the morphology of cells in the brain. This sculpture titled, “ Cajal’s Purkinje Neuron ” took him ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Prior studies of the neural representation of episodic memory in the human hippocampus have identified generic memory signals representing the ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved ...