Novel tools that allow neuron-specific investigations of the structure controlling sleep regulation in fruit flies reveal the extent of neuronal heterogeneity.

Reflex actions are quick because there is a direct link in the spinal cord called an inter neuron (between the sensory neuron and a motor neuron) that causes a muscle to make the protective response.

A revolutionary blueprint is emerging from a fragment of brain tissue, promising new insights into the mysteries of the human ...

Some biologists regarded its fine structure as fibrillary ... Thereafter, cell theory as applied to the nervous system became known as the 'neuron theory'. Ironically, it was by using Golgi's ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.

Gray matter is made up of neuron cell bodies and dendrites and is responsible ... Khan et al, Sex Differences in Human Brain ...

Over the past decade, a growing amount of research has revealed how liquid-liquid phase separation mediates protein ...

Commonly, the brain cells or ... of brain structure and functions. It shows how brain can change its neurons' types for optimum functioning. The researchers examined the neuron development with ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has produced a complete connectome of the Drosophila visual system, enabling systematic investigations into how visual information is processed and relayed ...

CytoTronics launched a Neural application for its Pixel system that enables discovery of more efficacious medicines for neurodegenerative disease.