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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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SEP 06, 2015Neuroscience
What causes severe early infant epilepsy? Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Swed ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 03, 2015Neuroscience
A German-French team has developed a light-sensitive switch to regulate a protein involved in the neurobiology of synapt ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 30, 2015Neuroscience
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For years, males with sexual problems looking for a solution have had many drug treatments to choose from. For the first ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 16, 2015Neuroscience
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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 SchneiderAUG 01, 2015Videos
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
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 SchneiderJUL 28, 2015Neuroscience
Brain waves have multiple rhythms that come together as needed but then go back to their own frequencies to address thei ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 27, 2015Neuroscience
"Sleeping on it" may have new meaning if researchers from the University of Exeter (in the United Kingdom) and the Basqu ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 16, 2015Neuroscience
Screams signal danger with an acoustical signature unlike other vocalizations, according to an article in Current Biolog ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 10, 2015Genetics & Genomics
There is good news for those suffering with a group of orphan genetic diseases that remain incurable thus far. An intern ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 07, 2015Videos
Thoughts are something that we experience every single day. Sometimes, we force ourselves to think about something so th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 07, 2015Neuroscience
The phrase, "dreams are made for children," might have taken on new meaning, based on a study at Washington State Univer ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 05, 2015Videos
The brain is an amazing organ. It's ultimately the control center of the body that controls the functions of your other ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 02, 2015Neuroscience
Why do teenagers take big risks? While conventional wisdom put the blame on a dopamine rush, it now appears that "the ad ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 01, 2015Neuroscience
While sleep disorders are common in both men and women with bipolar disorder, lack of sleep can make it even worse for w ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 29, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
Dementia is a generic term used to describe a wide range of diseases related to brain malfunction that leads to memory l ...Written By: Kara Marker
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
JUL 16, 2015
Neuroscience
Screams signal danger with an acoustical signature unlike other vocalizations, according to an article in Current Biolog
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 10, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
There is good news for those suffering with a group of orphan genetic diseases that remain incurable thus far. An intern
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 07, 2015
Videos
Thoughts are something that we experience every single day. Sometimes, we force ourselves to think about something so th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 07, 2015
Neuroscience
The phrase, "dreams are made for children," might have taken on new meaning, based on a study at Washington State Univer
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 05, 2015
Videos
The brain is an amazing organ. It's ultimately the control center of the body that controls the functions of your other
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 02, 2015
Neuroscience
Why do teenagers take big risks? While conventional wisdom put the blame on a dopamine rush, it now appears that "the ad
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 01, 2015
Neuroscience
While sleep disorders are common in both men and women with bipolar disorder, lack of sleep can make it even worse for w
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 29, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Dementia is a generic term used to describe a wide range of diseases related to brain malfunction that leads to memory l
...
Written By:
Kara Marker