New research reveals that neurons in the visual cortex are far more adaptable than previously thought, responding dynamically to complex stimuli during object recognition tasks.

Understanding tests used to detect bone problems. Johns Hopkins Medicine. Joint aspiration. Dr, Bailey is a Virginia-based physical therapist and professor of anatomy and physiology with over a decade ...

The cells are linked to one another through chemicals called neurotransmitters that move across the synapses to the next neuron. Dopamine and serotonin are types of neurotransmitters. This process ...

How do we feel wetness, slipperiness or elasticity? “Think about squeezing a balloon,” he said. “Presumably no one sensory neuron type is going to encode squeeziness.” His work has transformed our ...

By establishing a framework for sensory-driven learning pathways ... (A-C) The three different DL1 DAN split-Gal4 driver MB328B, SS02180, and SS01716 that specifically label DAN-d1, DAN-f1, and DAN-g1 ...

This is where the study truly breaks new ground and transforms structural connectomics, which maps anatomy ... diagrams are inherently incomplete, owing to errors in machine-learning-based neuron ...

Furthermore, the researchers uncovered the ancient origin of PNS microglia and established a positive correlation between their abundance, species body size, and the size of primary sensory neuron ...

More than a century later, the puzzle of nervous system organization—the intricately tangled mess that results from each neuron’s connections to thousands ... assembled into a comprehensive brain ...

Critical periods are postnatal, restricted time windows of heightened plasticity in cortical neural networks, during which experience refines principal neuron wiring configurations ... Schematic ...

These fibers carry sensory information to the ... of these genes in each type of neuron relates to their unique roles. To perform transcriptional profiling of the mouse somatosensory nervous system, ...