Scientists have discovered a tiny group of neurons in an ancient brain region that acts like a built-in focus filter, helping ...

Neurons tucked away in an ancient part of the brain control the ability to pay attention by suppressing distractions and ...

For decades, textbooks told students the human brain held roughly 100 billion neurons and that glial cells outnumbered them ten to one. Both figures were wrong. Direct cell counts using a technique ...

The researchers found that specific neurons increased their electrical firing rate just before certain components of speech, ...

As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final destinations. Researchers discovered that this physical journey ...

Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to ...

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord. This intricate communication network is built of billions of neurons connected by synapses ...

Neurons tucked away in an ancient part of the brain control the ability to pay attention by suppressing distractions and directing focus. The discovery of these neurons in mice by Johns Hopkins ...

Language-Specific Hardware: At the single-neuron level inside the hippocampus, individual cells are largely language-specific, meaning they do not automatically fire for identical concepts across ...

Living cells constantly exchange ions (i.e., charged particles) via the thin barrier that surrounds their interior, known as ...

And yet we know surprisingly little about them. While the cellular biology of this critical organ has been mapped out, ...

Our brain prepares the body for an incoming meal before we even take the first bite. The aroma of food simmering on the stove ...