Researchers have engineered a laser-based artificial neuron that simulates the complex functions of a biological graded ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects motor neurons. The average life ...

This innovative technology enables real-time recording of brain neural signals generated by the instinctive behaviors of primates, utilizing wireless power transmission and communication without ...

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...

A new study may overturn the century-old understanding of how neurons are shaped—but not everyone is on board.

How an electrical signal crosses that synaptic gap is not yet entirely understood, but the basic process seems to go like this: a presynaptic neuron receives a message that it has information to ...

It turned out that this highly depended on the type of neuron. All neurons reacted to touch. But not all types sent signals to the brain in a way that contained all the information needed for the ...

According to the popular science magazine Nature, such a transmission ... without coffee. A neuron has an axon, a cable-like appendage that transmits electrical signals to nearby neurons.

“The faulty myelin does not properly insulate the neuron’s axons, thereby reducing the efficiency of electrical signal transmission between brain cells and the synchronization of electrical ...

In order for a neuron to transmit its own signal, it must first be sufficiently activated by incoming signals from other neurons via its dendrites. Then, an action potential is generated in its ...