Scientists explore how the immune and nervous systems constantly communicate, influencing brain diseases, behavior, and ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts-photos of family and friends on the ...

An increase in high-fat, high-fructose foods in people's diets has contributed to a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes. This, in turn, has led to an increase in peripheral neuropathy—nerve damage, ...

Researchers have identified a unique mitochondrial process in CA2 neurons that supports learning, memory, and social ...

In a study published in the journal Current Biology, Johns Hopkins researchers discovered that individual neurons in the ...

Columbia scientists have identified specialized brainstem neurons that tell mice when to stop eating. These cells integrate ...

A friend asked for a column on shingles. Shingles is a reactivation of the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox, and ...

These developmental stages in rats and mice yield DRG neuron cultures with similar percentages of pseudo ... To quantify the displacement of the base of the stem axon and of the top of the DRG cell ...

Glia (light green) respond to the loss of dendrite cilia (dark pink) by accumulating excess extracellular matrix (dark green). Neurons may get all the ...

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 are cells in the body that are responsible ... highly specialized sensory and motor neurons (as well as interneurons) are used to transmit these signals and coordinate the way your body works.