Quanta Magazine: These Cells Spark Electricity in the Brain. They’re Not Neurons.
UC San Francisco: Loss of Neurons, Not Lack of Sleep, Makes Alzheimer’s Patients Drowsy
EurekAlert!: DNA methylation changes and characteristics in neurons of bipolar disorder patients
For decades, researchers have debated whether brain cells called astrocytes can signal like neurons. Researchers recently published the best evidence yet that some astrocytes are part of the ...
Neurons that promote wakefulness in the brain of an Alzheimer's patient (green). There are far fewer functioning neurons that would be seen in a healthy brain, indicating that the awake system is ...
Scientists have used precious and rare access to live human cortical tissue to identify functionally important features that make human neurons unique. This experimental work is among the first of its ...
Medical Xpress on MSN: Fixed or flexible? Study shows vision-related neurons can rapidly switch codes
For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the brain for the recognition of objects—represent the world through fixed ...
Science Daily: Neurons show distinct styles as they interact with the same muscle partner
A study shows a newfound diversity in how cells talk to the muscle they innervate, revealing that the subclasses of neurons have distinct propensities for change, or 'plasticity'. A new study by MIT ...
Neurons show distinct styles as they interact with the same muscle partner
ALZFORUM: Newborn Neurons in the Adult Brain: Real Deal, or Glial Imposters?
Deep in the hippocampus, are new neurons born throughout life? Just when scientists were about to reach some consensus that the answer was yes, two recent studies disagree. In the April 5 Cell Stem ...