For decades, textbooks told students the human brain held roughly 100 billion neurons and that glial cells outnumbered them ...

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Specifically, they created a mouse brain map that tracked lipofuscin as the mice aged and their brains’ abilities to recycle ...

Scientists in Japan have created powerful new vitamin K-based compounds that may help the brain regenerate lost neurons — a breakthrough that could one day change how diseases like Alzheimer’s and ...

A new Yale study reveals that major organ systems in the body aren't just passive structures operating on directions from ...

Tones, oddball sounds and words can spark brain cell responses, hinting at nuanced processing without consciousness.

University of Oregon neuroscientists have identified a group of brain cells that essentially act as a "disappointment meter," ...

A new breakthrough technology, co-developed by UCL scientists, that simultaneously records and manipulates neuron activity deep within the brain could transform our understanding of neural circuits ...

An octopus distributes its nervous system in a way that no vertebrate does: only about one-third of its neurons sit inside ...

For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion. The finding, reported in the journal Nature, ...