Neurons, the uber-connected nerve cells that act as a main switchboard for the brain, are central to some incredibly ...

In the brain, highly specific connections called synapses link nerve cells and transmit electrical signals in a targeted manner. Despite decades of research, how synapses form during brain development ...

Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in processing basic features of what the ...

Signalling between neurons and tumour cells in the lung and brain promotes the growth of small-cell lung cancer. These interactions might be a therapeutic target. Read the paper: Neuronal ...

Researchers identify key rules for how visual cortex neurons organize thousands of synaptic inputs based on distance and clustering.

Researchers from the Department of Physics have managed to experimentally develop a new magnetic state: a magneto-ionic vortex or "vortion." The research, published in Nature Communications, allows ...

An important chemical messenger that typically inhibits brain activity might sometimes do the opposite, according to new Yale ...

The brain is often described as a dense forest of connections, and for years scientists have searched for ways to trim that ...

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses. These are the junctions where one neuron passes signals to another, ...

Researchers at King's College London have identified the biological nature and timing of changes in human cortical neurons ...

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have managed to experimentally develop a new magnetic state: a magneto-ionic vortex or “vortion”. The research, published in Nature ...