Researchers identify key rules for how visual cortex neurons organize thousands of synaptic inputs based on distance and clustering.

Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in processing basic features of what the ...

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, ...

People who carry the APOE2 version of the apolipoprotein E gene are more likely to live to advanced age and are partly ...

Successfully treating type 2 diabetes may involve focusing on brain neurons, rather than simply concentrating on obesity or insulin resistance, according to a study published today in the Journal of ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought that they are settled into one subtype once they develop from stem cells, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neurons that fire together sometimes wire together. PASIEKA/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Every day, people are ...

A new study published in the journal Neuron provides evidence that the brain stores competing memories of alcohol use and the ...

Credit: Mark Hersam/Northwestern University Printed artificial neurons can now send lifelike signals that activate real brain ...

The APOE2 gene variant protects against Alzheimer's by enhancing DNA repair and preventing neuronal senescence.

Have you ever wondered how a fly manages to dodge you in a split second? Scientists have long been fascinated by the ...