As well as boosting brain health, cocoa is also effective in helping memory and stress. In the object recognition test, designed to assess memory in mice, those who consumed the HPC diet achieved ...

However, whereas the rat’s brain is tiny and 30% cortex, our brains are much larger and 75% cortex. So a dendrite reaching from layer 5 to layer 1 has to be much longer than the analogous neuron ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...

In the new study, the team studied brain imaging, clinical data, and blood markers of angiogenesis, including the family of VEGF growth factors and their receptors. VEGF stands for vascular ...

of the brain. To investigate possible changes to the dendrites of LGN neurons in glaucoma, a selective marker for dendrites called microtubule-associated protein-2 (MAP2) was used. The LGNs from ...

The study suggests that mutations in the Usp9X gene could be a potential cause of autism. These mutations disrupt the ...

A breakthrough study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical ... which are located in distant dendrites that extend like branches from ...