The nervous system contains hundreds of different types of neurons that have physical forms specialized for their functions. Neurons communicate using electrical signals, or action potentials.

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication ... Hacking can help scientists learn about the functions of different groups of neurons. They can activate several brain cells at the ...

A collision happens. Someone is hurt, a head injury, a concussion. Just as the first responders arrive to help the person, ...

The fine control these almost-alien animals have over each of their eight arms is at least partially down to the segmentation ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and ...

If the drug is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of acute pain in January as expected, the ...

The study is particularly significant because it could help explain the association between these plastic-derived chemicals ...

A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the ...

Neuroscientists have identified that the receptor IL-1R1 plays a critical role in enabling neurons to directly communicate with the immune system. The new study provides the most detailed mapping of ...

Researchers find that microglia function differently in males versus females, potentially having broad implications for how neurological diseases are studied.