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

How does one nerve cell transmit the nerve impulse to another cell? Electron microscopy and other methods show that it does so by means of special extensions that deliver a squirt of transmitter ...

also known as nerve impulses, which involve rapid changes in voltage across their membrane. When a neuron’s dendrite or cell body receives enough inputs from other neurons via chemical or electrical ...

Neurons or nerve cells are the fundamental components of ... one neuron to another requires the establishment of a neuronal synapse: either chemical (neurotransmitters) or electrical (protein ...

Jennifer Morgan, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, studies how the synapse malfunctions in devastating diseases such as Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia. Now, her lab ...

A nerve cell/neurone carries information in the form ... it follows a short pathway with only three neurones and two synapses: • Sensory neurone: carries impulse from the receptor to the spinal ...

They placed central and peripheral nerve cells taken from rats together in ... these neurons make a connection called a synapse that transmits cold sensory information from the peripheral to ...

Amino acid balance could play a role in SMA, as a study showed acids able to influence nervous system function were ...

In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new study.

In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a study ...