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 ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the ...

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

Neurons in cochlear nucleus are highly specialized for neural coding of sounds. Here, authors show all cochlear nucleus cell types are defined by distinct transcriptomic profiles, thus uncovering ...

The neurons in the octopus's arms are concentrated along an axial nerve cord that undulates down the length of each arm, with ...

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

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

Neuronal pathway finding is crucial for structured cellular organization and development of neural circuits within the nervous system ... including neurons, in the ventricular and subventricular ...

Each octopus arm has a massive nervous system, with more neurons combined across the eight arms than in the animal's brain. These neurons are concentrated in a large axial nerve cord (ANC), which ...

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