A new study suggests that how neurons process energy may determine whether they resist damage or begin to break down.

Two types of neurons in the skin may be particularly important for how the brain interprets social contact between people, according to a new study led by Linköping University in Sweden. Knowledge of ...

Neurons are famously fragile, yet some injured cells manage to hang on, stabilize, and even reconnect. That quiet resilience ...

Researchers detail the mechanism of how synapses compete with each other, and how weak and noisy synapses are eliminated during development Fukuoka, Japan—Researchers at Kyushu University have ...

Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, ...

Closely related dopamine-releasing neurons in the olfactory bulb behave in fundamentally different ways depending on their physical structure.

Researchers have discovered that a part of the brain associated with working memory and multisensory integration may also play an important role in how the brain processes social cues. Previous ...

Experimental electron micrograph of purified synaptic vesicles (upper). Synaptic vesicles automatically identified in the image with a new computer program are highlighted with different colours and ...

An international collaboration between researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan, the University of Tokyo, and the University College London has demonstrated that ...

Ever wonder when you touch something, how the brain is able to know it? A generally accepted view embraced by neuroscientists is that different parts of the brain are responsible for certain functions ...