Reflex actions are quick because there is a direct link in the spinal cord called an inter neuron (between the sensory neuron and a motor neuron) that causes a muscle to make the protective response.

Each neuron can have hundreds of branches that ... This team wrote sophisticated software algorithms to identify patterns of ...

Faced with the incredible variety of structure and composition of proteins ... In order to become a distinct cell type like a muscle cell or a neuron, cells must go through a series of developmental ...

The study is published in the journal Neuron. Place cells are specialized neurons in ... This perspective challenges long-held assumptions about the structure of neural circuits and opens new ...

Washington DC: Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat ...