Most of the brain cells were found — unsurprisingly — in areas of the brain associated with memory. “If you know who Jennifer Aniston is, then you probably have a Jennifer Anniston neuron ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far ...

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have, for the first time ever, imaged a neuron dying and subsequently undergoing “corpse removal.” In the video below, a brain cell is shown ...

Researchers have produced a full map of an adult fruit fly's brain cells ... more than 8,400 unique cell types responsible for abilities like sight or movements including 4,581 previously unknown ...

In the 1960s neurobiologist Jerome Lettvin named the latter idea the "grandmother cell" theory, meaning that the brain has a neuron devoted just for recognizing each family member. Lose that ...

Stained image of an astrocyte, a star-shaped glial cell that holds neurones in the brain together and surrounds the synapses between them. New research suggests that some astrocytes may be able to ...

Neuroscientists have made a rosy discovery: a new type of human brain cell. The newest neuron has been named the "rosehip neuron," thanks to its bushy appearance. The brain cell, with its unique ...

Although the identification of the neuron revolutionized scientific understanding of the brain, neuronal imagery has not gained broad appeal. Wingate and Kwint discuss how developments in neuronal ...

Well then you probably have at least one "Jennifer Aniston cell" in your brain, ... The neuron almost ignored all other photos, but fired steadily each time Aniston appeared on screen.

As Yasemin Saplakoglu at LiveScience reports this week, researchers recently discovered an entirely new type of neuron that may only exists in the human brain. The new cell type is called the ...