Not all brain cells are found in the brain. For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion.
Neurons are the most well-known cells in the brain but they are not the only type of cell in this organ. The other main type is the glial cells, also known as neuroglia. Glia comes from the Greek word ...
The brain’s rules seem simple: Fire together, wire together. When groups of neurons activate, they become interconnected. This networking is how we learn, reason, form memories, and adapt to our world ...
Aswathy Ammothumkandy receives funding from American Epilepsy Society, and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Michael A. Bonaguidi receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, ...
The autonomic nervous system orchestrates the functions of internal organs such as the heart and gut, serving as a connection ...
Three-dimensional reconstruction of the neuronal connections in the fruit fly's anterior visual pathway. The circular shape in the middle of the brain is the ellipsoid body. UC Santa Barbara ...
From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...
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For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion. The finding, reported in the journal Nature, ...