Neurobiologists have gained new insights into how neurons control growth of the intricate tracery of branches called dendrites that enable them to connect with their neighbors. Dendritic connections ...

How neuronal circuits remodel themselves over time, especially during early development, is a major question in neurobiology. Using mice, researchers have uncovered a biomolecular mechanism behind the ...

The axon terminals, also known as terminal buttons, are the branched endings of the axon. These terminals form synapses with ...

A global team harnessed the Fugaku supercomputer to build one of the largest and most realistic virtual mouse cortex models ...

Harnessing the muscle of one of the world's fastest supercomputers, researchers have built one of the largest and most ...

Two University neuroscience research projects received competitive grants totaling $2.29 million from the inaugural National Institutes of Health Brain Research through Advancing Innovative ...

Schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder that affects how a person feels, thinks, and behaves, affects roughly 1% of the ...

If you have upper motor neuron lesions, you have damage to certain nerve cells that help you move. Medicines and therapy can help control symptoms like muscle spasms and help you walk and talk more ...

Fukuoka, Japan--At this very moment, the billions of neurons in your brain are using their trillions of connections to enable you to read and comprehend this sentence. Now, by studying the neurons ...