Neurons tucked away in an ancient part of the brain control the ability to pay attention by suppressing distractions and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regenerating neurons may be one way to improve cognition. stanislavgusev/RooM via Getty Images Your brain can still make new ...

For decades, textbooks told students the human brain held roughly 100 billion neurons and that glial cells outnumbered them ten to one. Both figures were wrong. Direct cell counts using a technique ...

Neurons tucked away in an ancient part of the brain control the ability to pay attention by suppressing distractions and ...

Researchers at Peking University have developed DUET, a breakthrough dual-color miniature two-photon microscope that ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered that neurons located in the wrong place can still carry out their normal ...

Researchers found that newborn neurons experience widespread DNA double-strand breaks as they squeeze through crowded brain ...

A neuron is a nerve cell that is the basic building block of the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. Neurons are similar to other cells in the human body in a number of ways, but ...

As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final destinations. Researchers discovered that this physical journey ...

Your brain can still make new neurons when you're an adult. But how does the rare birth of these new neurons contribute to cognitive function? To uncover the relationship between neurogenesis in ...