Some of the monkeys were also connected with electrodes that probed individual hippocampal neurons, allowing the researchers to track the response of different cells to different trial phases.

Specialised cell type Animal or plant cell ... filaments that can slide past each other to shorten the cell Neuron (nerve cell) Animal Transmits electrical impulses from one part of body to ...

This article reports a useful set of findings on how electrophysiological response properties of neurons correlate with their position in the brain. The evidence currently remains incomplete, with ...

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers targeting a group of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases have found success ...

Assumptions that may seem self-evident are not always accurate when it comes to the evolution of vertebrate brains.

Among the questions on her list: How do organelles migrate within a neuron to propagate a synapse ... Svoboda is interested in how these cells “talk to each other” to form highly complex neural ...

In healthy rodent brains, newborn neurons are constantly generated in the stem cell niche, known as the subventricular zone (SVZ). These cells might help to repair a brain that has been damaged by ...

UW–Madison researchers used gene therapy to prevent hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) in a rat model, introducing a healthy ...