This important study demonstrates the significance of incorporating biological constraints in training neural networks to develop models that make accurate predictions under novel conditions. By ...

Researchers are developing promising suppression systems for painful conditions—even an app on your phone that turns the pain off.

Dravet syndrome (DS) is a rare and severe form of epilepsy that causes intellectual disability and motor deficits and can lead to premature death. A loss-of-function mutation in one copy of SCN1A, ...

A computer rendering of a parvalbumin-positive neuron, which researchers were able to produce in large quantities for the first time in in-vitro models. Press Inquiries Press Contact. Emily ...

Dennis Mathew is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and studies insect olfaction at the cellular and molecular levels. He is also a co-director of ...

Inhibitory neuron dysfunction emerges as a modulable mechanism of hyperexcitability. Download PDF Copy; Reviewed. Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Nov 17 2022.

Inhibitory neuron activity prevents the brain from getting over-excited. If a scientist represses the inhibitory neuron activity, the neurons become more active, but it can cause toxicity.

This resulted in the formation of inhibitory synapses, the team reports. Scientists achieved their goal by forcing excitatory neurons to produce excess amounts of three proteins: two that help make an ...

An exciting study by researchers in the laboratory of Dr. Huda Zoghbi, distinguished service professor at Baylor College of Medicine and director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research ...

As inhibitory cells, chandelier cells are thought to regulate waves of firing—which is important, because the waves contain information that is transmitted over large distances of the brain.” ...

Branched extensions of the cell, called dendrites, would receive thousands of signals from neighboring neurons — some excitatory, some inhibitory. In the body of the neuron, all those signals would be ...