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

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.

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.

Researchers have developed a microscope specifically for imaging large groups of interacting cells in their natural environments. The instrument provides scientists with a new tool for imaging ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Importantly, it was able to reveal the features where many synapses dwell: the spines that protrude along the vine-like processes, or dendrites, that grow out of the neuron cell body.

The neuron-to-neuron handoff occurs at gaps between cells. That is, the events that animate the most sophisticated structure in the known universe — the transmission of signals from one neuron ...

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 ...