New research shows a single neuron in fruit flies can trigger two distinct behaviors in response to the same smell.

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

The same neuron can tell fruit flies to walk toward the smell of rotting fruit and speed up, according to new research from Yale scientists. Neurobiologists once believed that each neuron held a ...

Illuminating the dark. Tavakoli, Lyudchik, and Danzl discuss a close-up image of the hippocampus—a brain region responsible for memory formation and spatial navigation—in the microscopy room ...

A newly developed microscope is providing scientists with a greatly enhanced tool to study how neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease affect neuron communication.

The Microscopy Core includes four confocal microscopes and one two-photon microscopy suite. The confocal microscopes include a ZEISS 510 system with three ... Scale bar, 10 µm. (B) Representative ...

A newly developed microscope is providing scientists with a greatly enhanced tool to study how neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease affect neuron communication.

In research published last year in Neuron, Kwan used two-photon microscopy to show that a single dose of psilocybin increased the number of neuronal connections in a mouse brain by about 10%.

They were able to image neuron activity within a volume measuring 1200 X 1200 X 100 microns at video rate. Using an algorithm, the researchers were able to identify 926 neurons in the imaged volume.

It is estimated that a single neuron has about 10,000 synapses to communicate with another neuron, and yet much neuroscience is still focused on stimulating larger regions of the brain, known as bulk ...

To investigate, the scientists examined the action potential - the 'firing' of the neuron - and how the impulse propagates through the neuron. Typically, the dendrites receive the signal, which ...