Two small clinical trials tested the safety of injecting stem cells into the brains of Parkinson's patients and found no ...

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information travels through the brain – revealing more than 500 million connections in a ...

Northeastern University scientists have discovered that a protein in the human brain could potentially be used to grow new ...

Willits explains that this discovery could have future applications in controlling neural stem cell differentiation in laboratories to accelerate neuron growth, or in developing injectable materials ...

Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.

Using in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell, scientists have demonstrated that neurons can transform from one type to another. Neurons are specialized brain cells responsible for ...

The brain learns due to neurons using multiple mechanisms to store knowledge according to a new study by researchers.

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological ...

A study has revealed that individual neurons use distinct rules across their dendritic compartments to strengthen synapses ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with ...