Collaborative work with Luo suggests that this neuron subtype can also be found ... The neurometabolism teams within A*STAR’s Brain-Body Initiative are using human cohort studies and preclinical ...

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...

Our discovery addresses a long-standing debate about the brain: do neurons act like star players (each highly ... that this fractal coordination of neuron activity occurs across a vast ...

Twomey’s previous research has shown that drugs such as perampanel, used to treat epilepsy, act as a door stopper around the ...

The activity of an individual neuron is constrained by the anatomical organization of its presynaptic network (the set of neurons from which it receives information). In the mouse brain ...

Reflex actions are involuntary and do not necessarily involve the brain. Reflex actions protect ... link in the spinal cord called an inter neuron (between the sensory neuron and a motor neuron ...

A new technique reveals cells’ precise locations and functions in the brain. Its developers have already used it to identify a previously unknown neuron type. Dan is a News Editor at The Scientist. He ...