Movement is a complex process governed by a network of neuronal circuits spread across multiple regions of the nervous system ...

The virus travels from the tumor cell back through the neuron that connects to it. The researchers injected human glioma cells into the brains of mice and waited for neurons to connect with the tumors ...

Scientists map the circadian rhythm-regulating neurons and elucidate their roles in regulating behaviors in Drosophila The circadian clock, an internal timekeeping system, enables organisms to ...

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The new model provides new insights into how neurons form networks, as well as a novel tool to understand in future how this ...

"That number is ridiculously small compared with any information rate we encounter in daily life," the researchers wrote in the study, published Dec. 17 in the journal Neuron. "For example ...

(Panju 2015) However, neuron density does not tell the whole story. How the brain functions also has a lot to do with how many connections there are between neurons, among other factors.

Serafini and colleagues provide evidence that neuroligin acts as a trans-neuronal signal to induce presynaptic differentiation at neuron–neuron connections in vitro. To form a synaptic ...