The drive to eat may be controlled by a very simple circuit in the brain, new research in mice suggests. Just three types of brain cells collaborate to suppress or enhance appetite, driving mice ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Mirror neurons received significant media attention in the 2000s and were painted by some scientists as the key to many of our advanced social abilities. However, many of the more significant ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive ...

International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) researchers have developed a neuromorphic photonic semiconductor neuron ...

(A, B) Neurons are specialized eukaryotic cells that ... which are formed by the Arp2/3 complex (blue). The diameters of microtubules, intermediate filaments, and actin filaments are within ...