Imagine listening to your grandparents weave a captivating story about their childhood. How does our brain manage to store ...

However, whereas the rat’s brain is tiny and 30% cortex, our brains are much larger and 75% cortex. So a dendrite reaching from layer 5 to layer 1 has to be much longer than the analogous neuron ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...

When a message travels through the brain, it hops from neuron to neuron, flowing from the end of one neuron into the ...

Subtle activation of a small subset of neurons in one region of the brain can make male mice resilient to, and even reverse, ...

Science Corporation thinks connecting to the brain with living neurons could be a more viable solution for brain-machine ...

of the brain. To investigate possible changes to the dendrites of LGN neurons in glaucoma, a selective marker for dendrites called microtubule-associated protein-2 (MAP2) was used. The LGNs from ...