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Neurons
Neurons: A nerve cell that receives and sends electrical signals over long distances within the body. A neuron receives electrical input signals from sensory cells (called sensory neurons) and from other neurons. The neuron sends electrical output signals to muscle neurons (called motoneurons or motor neurons) and to other neurons. A neuron that simply signals another neuron is called an interneuron.
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OCT 01, 2015Neuroscience
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A group of scientists from Harvard University recently reported in the journal Cell an interesting study on how neurons ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 30, 2015Neuroscience
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OCT 01, 2015
Neuroscience
Choosing whether or not to buy a lottery ticket is one example of making a decision where some risk is involved. Dodging
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Memory is an amazing thing. The brain has to process so much information that comes in, decode it and then store it some
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 28, 2015
Neuroscience
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists analyzing spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have discovered “surprising
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 28, 2015
Cancer
Scientists from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) have discovered that combining antidepressants with
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 21, 2015
Neuroscience
Is there a connection between the brain’s stress response and a protein related to Alzheimer’s disease? Rese
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 19, 2015
Neuroscience
While interactions between brain cells hold the key to healthy brain function and cognition, many of those interactions
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 16, 2015
Neuroscience
An Australian study published in the journal BMC Medicine and reported in Bioscience Technology claims that people
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 11, 2015
Health & Medicine
One Michigan-based company thinks algae may hold a cure for blindness. RetroSense Therapeutics will soon conduct a
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 06, 2015
Neuroscience
What causes severe early infant epilepsy? Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Swed
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 03, 2015
Neuroscience
A German-French team has developed a light-sensitive switch to regulate a protein involved in the neurobiology of synapt
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins researchers think that a common gene mutation triggers the brain damage associated with both amyotrophic l
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 26, 2015
Cancer
Cancer researchers, always looking for more effective and less toxic approaches to stopping the disease, recently launch
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Health & Medicine
For years, males with sexual problems looking for a solution have had many drug treatments to choose from. For the first
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 16, 2015
Neuroscience
When Dr. Ravi Allada, a circadian rhythms expert, was looking at a mutant fruit fly fifteen years ago, he began his ques
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 12, 2015
Neuroscience
Losing a critical receptor in a special class of inhibitory neurons in the brain may cause neurodevelopmental disorders,
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 11, 2015
Neuroscience
A drug already been in use to treat liver disease may slow down the progression of Parkinson's disease, according to sci
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 10, 2015
Neuroscience
Losing sleep means physiological effects and behavioral changes, and people have studied the link between sleep loss and
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 07, 2015
Neuroscience
While serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in regulating mood and mental states, has been linked to numerous neurologi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 07, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have discovered as many as 1,000 genetic mutations along the autism spectrum. One enzyme that could be respo
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 05, 2015
Neuroscience
Now thought to speed up the brain's messaging process, the astrocyte, a type of glial cell, seems to do more than feed a
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 01, 2015
Videos
A group of scientists from Harvard University recently reported in the journal Cell an interesting study on how neurons
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Why do some people eat so much? It may be because of a hormone in the brain that controls eating for sheer pleasure, rat
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 28, 2015
Neuroscience
Brain waves have multiple rhythms that come together as needed but then go back to their own frequencies to address thei
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 27, 2015
Neuroscience
"Sleeping on it" may have new meaning if researchers from the University of Exeter (in the United Kingdom) and the Basqu
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider