A newly developed microscope is providing scientists with a greatly enhanced tool to study how neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease affect neuron communication.

The human brain is comprised of two main types of cells, known as neurons and glia. The first are responsible for ...

Spencer Smith, PhD, peers through a microscope of his own creation, trying to home in on a single neuron. The cell is tiny, about 0.015 millimeters in diameter. He attempts to clamp a microscopic ...

A newly developed microscope is providing scientists with a greatly enhanced tool to study how neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease affect neuron communication. The ...

It is estimated that a single neuron has about 10,000 synapses to communicate with another neuron, and yet much neuroscience is still focused on stimulating larger regions of the brain, known as bulk ...

Electrical and chemical signals flash through our brains constantly as we move through the world, but it would take a high-speed camera and a window into the brain to capture their fleeting paths.

Microscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections ... the left side shows a neuron imaged with mosTF, ... or dendrites, that grow out of the neuron cell body.

As many of the brain cells that are thought to be involved in this process are located deep in the visual cortex, we made a very light-weight head-mounted microscope that can measure activity from ...

In this article, we discuss the most fascinating cell type in the human body. We explain what a neuron looks like, what it does, and how it works.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT A wearable microscope can image contractions of single motor units — a motor nerve cell and the muscle fibers it controls — in live people. G.N. Sanchez et al/Neuron 2015 ...