Researchers have built a nerve cell “connectivity map” of a larval fruit fly brain. It’s the most complex whole brain wiring diagram yet made.

Nerve cells communicate with one another via synapses. Neuroscientists have now found that these connections seem to be much more powerful than previously thought. The larger the synapse, the ...

Study: Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain.Image Credit: vitstudio / Shutterstock.com. In a recent study published in Nature, researchers map the whole brain of Drosophila melanogaster, or ...

In each hippocampus’s CA3 area, humans have about 1.7 million nerve cells called pyramidal cells. This subregion is thought to be the most internally connected part of the brain in mammals ...

Our method also makes it possible to include other types of nerve cells including glial cells, which can pave the way for more complete models of the spinal cord,” says Elena Kozlova. Reference: Han Y ...

Scientists have successfully grown over 400 different types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab—a groundbreaking step toward replicating the complexity of the human brain.

But how do brain cells send messages? The first step in this messaging process is the action potential, or a wave of electricity triggered in the nerve cell, or neuron.The neurons found in the ...

Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are capable of regenerating after injury. This is why injuries to the central ...

Neuroscientists have identified the nerve cells responsible for helping paralysed people to walk again, opening up the possibility of targeted therapies that could benefit a wider range of people ...