While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain is ...

For more than a century, axons — the slender arms of brain cells — have been depicted as uniform tubes. These structures are responsible for transmitting information across neurons. But new ...

Neurons transmit sensory and mechanical information across synapses and along axons throughout the body via chemical signals and electrical impulses.

In the complex world of neuroscience, Huntington's disease remains a cruel mystery. It slowly strips away a person’s ability ...

"Our previous paper reconstructed the complete axons of more than 6,000 neurons in mouse PFC," Jun Yan, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Medical Xpress.

These neurons were unmyelinated and each axon displayed distinct pearls which were spaced 200 nanometers (nm) apart along an axon with a diameter of 60nm. The researchers also observed these pearls ...

A Weizmann Institute study has identified hundreds of B2-SINE RNA molecules that drive nerve regeneration in mice. These ...

The nanopearls weren’t static. Adding sugar to the neurons’ liquid environment or stripping neurons of cholesterol in their membranes—the fatty protective outer layer—altered the nanopearls’ size and ...

A neuron extends an axon to make contact with other neurons. A team of more than 100 scientists recorded the cellular activity and mapped the structure in a cubic millimeter of a mouse’s brain.

Personal Perspective: The heart of treating brain injury may be treating the injured neurons and the resultant mental states, both.

Axons can be shaped like strings of pearls, research in mice and people show. How that shape may influence brain signaling is not yet clear.