In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

million wisdom teeth are removed every year, but the process of sending them to a biobank could be very simple.

Stanford researchers discovered that dialing down an overactive enzyme, LRRK2, can regrow lost cellular “antennae” in key ...

Different types of neurons include sensory, motor, and interneurons, as well as their structurally based features, which include unipolar, multipolar, bipolar, and pseudo-unipolar neurons.

The brain remains the king of computers. The most sophisticated machines inspired by it, known as "neuromorphic," now comprise up to 100 million neurons, as many as the brain of a small mammal ...

Not all brain cells are found in the brain. 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.

For these experiments, the researchers tested two types of neurons: some dissected from mouse embryos, and others produced by inducing human stem cells to form neurons.

So far, researchers have identified seven distinct types of dopamine neurons by looking at their genetic profiles. A study published in August 2023 was the first to parse dopamine function based ...

The Australian-developed machine, a biocomputer marketed for research purposes, uses living neural tissue integrated with ...

Just three types of brain cells collaborate to suppress or enhance appetite, driving mice to eat less or more food, the study found.. First, specialized neurons detect "hunger-signaling hormones ...

In fact, of 1,856 neurons tested in the piriform cortex in that study, 66 responded to both images and odors, meaning that they had semantic invariance with respect to the concept of the odor in ...

The connection point between a neuron emitting a spike (the presynaptic neuron) and the receiving neuron (the postsynaptic neuron) is the synapse.Each neuron is connected to about 10,000 other neurons ...