This bioengineering breakthrough has found a way to make neurons grown in a dish react just like the real thing. "Neurons that fire together, wire together" describes the neural plasticity seen in ...

Researchers suggest tunneling may reflect a conserved strategy adopted by specialized migratory cell types in dense tissues.

Why don't humans grow new brain cells? A new study shows "tunneling" neurons in songbirds may explain our limited capacity for neurogenesis.

When a neuron ages, it loses synaptic connections with other neurons, it is less able to transmit nerve impulses, and its metabolism is also altered. This process of neuronal ageing — inevitable with ...

Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age, new research in fruit flies reveals. “Our results – together with data from the mammalian brain uncovered by other research groups – ...

UB study combines stem cell-based therapy with a protein that regulates neuronal development to advance new strategies against neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injury. The study is led ...

Sugar and hunger shape human memory. That is the conclusion reached by a team of French scientists at the Paris Laboratory of ...

Cognitive tasks, such as learning and memory, require rapid changes to proteins at synapses, such as protein synthesis, degradation, and trafficking. How protein post-translational modifications ...

New research has identified a key step in how neurons encode information on timescales that match learning. New research from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience published this week in ...