At last, a massive international team of researchers has mapped in exquisite detail every neuron in the brain of an adult animal with eyes ... 8,453 known and named cell types in the diagram ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

These results provide evidence of an actual group of cells that behaved similarly to the previously theorized Grandmother neuron; the cells were sensory with a fast, dependable response to visual ...

1 Motor Neurons A motor neuron’s cell body is also often located either in the spinal cord or the brainstem with projections that interact with organs such as muscles and glands. Upper motor neurons ...

Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the ...

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...