Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair ...

Researchers in optics and brain and cognitive science are investigating whether neurons can transmit light in a manner ...

Findings challenge the idea that neurons follow a single learning strategy and offer a new perspective on how the brain ...

Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal ...

A Series in The Lancet Neurology provides state-of-the-art reviews covering clinical and scientific evidence on the four most common genetic subtypes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), caused by ...

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

From a cubic millimeter of tissue, scientists constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing ...

The brain really is an incredible organ, and neurons are the vital link between, well, everything. The brain is anything but ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester have begun an ambitious project to study if living neurons can transmit light through their axons—the long, tail-like nerve fibers of neurons that resemble ...

The data convincingly show that the transcription factor Sp1 regulates ephrin-mediated axon guidance in the spinal cord. Although the authors show that Sp1 and its co-activators p300 and CBP are ...

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