A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that regulates the production of two different proteins from the same gene.

As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to ...

Sleep disturbances may accelerate neurodegeneration, but whether they cause or result from disease remains unclear. Improving ...

Observing the activity of an individual brain cell in ... This behaviour of an individual neuron, described in a paper in the journal Cell Reports, allows for the forming of higher and abstract ...

Study shows maternal immune activation alters hippocampal neuron excitability in newborn rats, with implications for autism, schizophrenia, and depression.

The researchers thus tracked the individual behaviour of neurons and could obtain precise recordings of the neurons' responses. The patients were presented with two stories featuring the same person ...

The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for ...

International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) researchers have developed a neuromorphic photonic semiconductor neuron ...