Scientists have developed a new kind of laser-based artificial neuron that mimics a biological nerve cell. This artificial ...

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

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 ...

Therefore, most studies conducted so far have focused on only one of these systems, instead of exploring the potential connections between ... published in Neuron, suggest that the two systems ...

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

Researchers at UC Davis have achieved total chemical synthesis of the psychoactive compound ibogaine and its analogs from ...

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(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.

There are also many scales of organization above a neuron. Neurons connect with each other to form local neural circuits, which combine to form structures such as cortical columns. Eventually ...