New research on nematodes reveals how glial cells maintain and monitor neuronal dendrites. Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy ...

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

What was of particular interest (in relation to the recovery of John Famechon) was the process of discovering what was ...

Drugs targeting amyloid plaques have failed to show efficacy in clinical trials. A new approach is needed to tackle AD ...

A Personal View published in The Lancet Oncology challenges the long-standing perception of metastatic brain cancer, calling ...

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Scientists led by the Institute of ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial pathway that links brain cell activity to the activation of genes responsible for ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — Various diseases can be treated by stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear with electrical signals. However, this technique does not always work. A study has now shown: The ...

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 can also incorporate diverse approaches from electrical engineering, computer science and physics in order to understand how the nervous system processes ... of neural dendrites and soma ...