Brains are adaptable and flexible. Commonly, the brain cells or neurons were believed to remain permanently into the specific type they were formed. Each type has a different function. But a study ...

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 ...

1Children’s Research Institute and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. 10Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center, ...

Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. A team of researchers from the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological ...

Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have gained greater clarity in the brain regions and neurons that control metabolism, body temperature and energy use. Featured in the February ...

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1Department of Medicine, Columbia Center for Human Development, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York. 2Herbert Irving Comprehensive ...

Blocking β-adrenergic receptors impairs the defensive response to ... Inactivation of either the BLA or the BLA-projecting neurons in the LT was sufficient to impair defensive responses to innate and ...

The brain itself is a not a muscle. It contains blood vessels and nerves, including neurons and glial cells. What is the gray matter and white matter? Gray and white matter are two different regions ...

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Nerve cells, or neurons, are the basic functional units of the nervous system. Multiple interconnected neurons form a neural circuit and ...

The DishBrain system can send and receive electrophysiological signals to and from living neurons, training the cells to accomplish a task. Dan is a News Editor at The Scientist. He writes and edits ...