Instead of relying on a single neuron, the brain uses the pattern of activity across many neurons to encode information to ...

Motor neuron disease (MND) is a devastating condition that causes progressive muscle weakness by damaging the motor neurons, ...

Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness ...

Sleeping deeply into the afternoon after an all-nighter or a late night out is one way the body repays its sleep debt. The ...

Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the ...

Researchers have discovered that apical and basal dendrites of the same neuron use different strategies to learn, suggesting ...

New research explains how a common brain parasite, called Toxoplasma gondii, can disrupt brain functions, even when it only ...

New research reveals that individual neurons in the hippocampus can respond to both slow and fast brain waves at the same ...

A new understanding of how tumours exploit our nervous system is leading to new ways to treat cancer using familiar drugs ...

Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire ...