Just like a road atlas documents the web of highways connecting thousands of individual towns, a neuron atlas unveiled earlier this year mapped the physical connections between the brain cells of the ...

Studies with fruit flies have shown that the specialized nerve cells called neurons can rebuild themselves after injury. These results, potentially relevant to research efforts to improve the ...

Neurons communicate across synapses. Scientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT sought to determine how neurons sustain their capacity to set up and sustain this communication.

Researchers at the Babraham Institute and University of Massachusetts Medical School in the United States have developed a new model to study motor neuron degeneration and have used this to identify ...

It's an accomplishment that scientists have dreamed about for more than half a century. At last, a massive international team of researchers has mapped in exquisite detail every neuron in the brain of ...

The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain is the first of an entire brain for an animal that can walk and see. Previous efforts have completed the whole brain diagrams for much smaller ...