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 ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date ...

Synapses connect neurons and help transmit information from one neuron to the next ... to flow directly into the postsynaptic cell. Think of the nerve signal like the electrical current, and ...

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 ...

In fact, a tremendous amount of translational research money is now being devoted to the study of the malfunction of so-called “induced synapses” formed in vitro between neuron-like cells ...

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 ...

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve cells connected by synapses ... type of cell called a concept neuron, which does what was long thought to be ...

"This causes the pyramidal cell, a type of neuron in the brain that ... how EPO regulates excitatory synapses involving interneurons. Interneurons are nerve cells of the central nervous system ...

In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new study.