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

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

The question points to a broader trend in neuroscience. Increasingly, researchers are moving beyond asking what each brain ...

To function properly, neurons need to recycle cellular waste before it becomes toxic. When neurons can no longer do that, ...

Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. A team of researchers has programmed these infomorphic neurons and constructed artificial ...

First complete connectome of the fruit fly central nervous system details all connections between neurons in the brain and ...

Inside the brain is a dense network of neurons that receive, process, and relay information. The synapse, where neurons meet, ...

Small plastic particles alter neuron growth, suggesting that particle size may be just as important as the amount of plastic ...

Engineered fluorescent nanobodies that work inside living cells can label multiple proteins in different colors at once, ...

A neuron is a nerve cell that is the basic building block of the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. Neurons are similar to other cells in the human body in a number of ways, but ...

Irisin, a hormone released during exercise, appears to directly shield neurons from damage in a mouse model of multiple ...

A contraceptive drug helps human nerve cells regenerate by unlocking their forgotten embryonic healing abilities.