While E. Josie Clowney would never suggest that neuroscience is simple, a new study by her team at the University of Michigan ...
An octopus distributes its nervous system in a way that no vertebrate does: only about one-third of its neurons sit inside ...
For decades, textbooks told students the human brain contained 100 billion neurons. That figure, repeated so often it became ...
New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial ...
From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive decline in mental functions and memory loss. Along with frontotemporal dementia and some other neurodegenerative ...