Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

Two types of neurons in the hippocampus either store memories for sugar or drive fat cravings, shaping food intake and ...

Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, or neurons. This means that a concept or memory or idea is the result of a distributed pattern of neural ...

A research team at Stanford University has become the first to assemble a functioning brain circuit in a lab dish by ...

Several transcription factors in developing neurons exhibit broad-to-restricted expression patterns, but the relevance of ...