also known as nerve impulses, which involve rapid changes in voltage across their membrane. When a neuron’s dendrite or cell body receives enough inputs from other neurons via chemical or electrical ...

How does one nerve cell transmit the nerve impulse to another cell? Electron microscopy and other methods show that it does so by means of special extensions that deliver a squirt of transmitter ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial pathway that links brain cell activity to the activation of genes responsible for ...

There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again. For example, noradrenaline.

Scientists have found a reason why some people never seem to get warm while others never seem to feel the cold: some nerve cell receptors ... a connection called a synapse that transmits cold ...

Neurons or nerve ... cells are the fundamental components of the central nervous system and are critically involved in signal transduction pathways. Transmission of information or signal from one ...

A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells ... neuron function are controlled is a long distance away from where neurons receive input from their synapses ...

Scientists have developed a new kind of laser-based artificial neuron that mimics a biological nerve cell. This artificial ...

A neuron or nerve cell is the brain's fundamental building block for the transmission of information. The cell body (or soma) is a neuron’s center, from which different types of extensions ...