Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine have used single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to identify a pattern of gene expression that can be used to predict whether or ...

Within the brain, neurons compute by generating electrical impulses. These signals travel throughout neurons, which are in ...

Proprioception, the body’s quiet sense of position and movement, depends on sensory neurons that are genetically programmed ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital created a single-cell atlas of a key class of spinal neurons involved in motor coordination. From that resource, they identified a small subgroup of ...

A group of brain cells called orexin neurons appears to help us keep working when reaching a reward becomes increasingly ...

Wondering what makes it easy to keep going toward a goal when the reward becomes harder to achieve? TheHealthSite.com ...

What enables us to sustain effort toward goals, even when the task becomes increasingly difficult? A recent study by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan revealed the underlying brain mechanism, ...

A study published in Science on Feb. 1 reported a comprehensive database of single-neuron projectomes consisting of over 10,000 mouse hippocampal neurons, thus revealing the spatial connectivity ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons are generalists ...

While everyone knows that a good night's sleep restores energy, a new study finds it resets another vital function: memory. While everyone knows that a good night's sleep restores energy, a new ...