Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

Nature has developed a unique structure as a scaffold for almost all nerve cells: the membrane-associated periodic skeleton ...

Learning in the brain The human brain is made up of billions of nerve cells. These neurons conduct ... thousands of electrical inputs from other cells. Dendrites transmit these inputs to the main body ...

Learning is something everyone does daily—mastering new skills at work, remembering song lyrics, or following directions to ...

The brain learns due to neurons using multiple mechanisms to store knowledge according to a new study by researchers.

Lion's Mane mushroom, known for its unique appearance resembling a lion's mane, offers various health benefits, particularly ...

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

How we think, feel, see, talk and move are due to neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain – how they’re activated and send ...

Listen to Story They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample The tissue sample was the size of a grain of sand It has over 200,000 cells including roughly 84,000 nerve cells ...

Taken together with the finding that axons control the survival of SCPs (see above), these studies identify a discrete phase in early nerve ... of the neuron or with specific neuronal cell types ...

Our results indicate that aberrant midline crossing by motor neuron cell bodies and axons in mice lacking Robo1 and Robo2 are not interdependent and that DCC contributes to axon, but not cell body ...