In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers identified an unusual type of brain cell they named “ovoid ...

A new study investigated the brain circuits involved in psychosis—a condition characterized by delusions, hallucinations, ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

It feels like the Splinter Cell remake has been on its way for a while now, which isn't helped by the fact it's been over three years since we heard anything official about the game. From what we ...

Precise apposition of pre- to postsynaptic specializations is required ... stacks taken through the entire junction. Because Schwann cells capping nerve terminals bear a laminin-rich BL, the ...

Bar. Date. Martini. Olive. Bank. Deep in your brain, neurons known as concept cells are firing. You might have concept cells that fire for martinis but not for olives. Or ones that fire for bars — ...

A recent study from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India has revealed new details about how our cells clean up and recycle waste. This process, known as autophagy, is like a self ...

In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying specklelike structures called P ...

This important study offers insights into the function and connectivity patterns of a relatively unknown afferent input from the endopiriform to the CA1 subfield of the ventral hippocampus, suggesting ...