The human brain is comprised of two main types of cells, known as neurons and glia. The first are responsible for ...

Neuroscientists now can read the mind of a fly. In a study focused on three of the fruit fly's sensory systems, the researchers developed a new tool that uses fluorescent molecules of different ...

Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains of living animals. This technique, the first that can generate 3-D ...

It remains one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience: How does the flood of sensory information—everything an animal touches, tastes, smells, sees, and hears—translate into behavior?

Neurons can only be seen using a microscope and can be split into three parts: Soma (cell body) — this portion of the neuron receives information. It contains the cell’s nucleus.

Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D New technique allows scientists to monitor the entire nervous system of a small worm Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

The left image shows a sensory neuron and a motor neuron viewed using a fluorescence confocal microscope. The sensory and motor neurons are labelled with different fluorescent dyes (green and red ...

Robotic system monitors specific neurons Success rate is comparable to that of highly trained scientists performing the process manually Date: August 30, 2017 ...

High-speed 3-D imaging. Neurons encode information — sensory data, motor plans, emotional states, and thoughts — using electrical impulses called action potentials, which provoke calcium ions ...

This is a pyramidal neuron, so named for the pyramid-shaped body at the center of this drawing, from the cerebral cortex of a human. This outermost layer of the brain integrates information from ...