A new study published in Nature Neuroscience provides evidence that aging and injury lead to the buildup of senescent neurons ...

Your nervous system uses billions of tiny, connected nerve cells called neurons to send the messages, which are electrical and chemical signals that tell your body what to do. Your nervous system ...

For the most part, your autonomic nervous system is made up of neurons and a few other cell types. Neurons are the physical connections that stretch from your brain and spinal cord to almost all ...

With their special ability to produce and share electrical signals and a capacity to link up in complex webs, neurons are a basic component of the nervous system. The brain contains more than 100 ...

Your nervous system contains millions of nerve cells, called neurons. Neurons are highly specialised to transmit messages from one part of your body to another. All neurons have a cell body and ...

Scientists say they've put together a molecular toolkit that could be used to treat a variety of brain diseases, possibly ...

Sponsor Message "The peripheral nervous system is smart," says Frank Duca of the University of Arizona, who was not involved in the study. "You have specific neurons within this system that are ...

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...

Instead of being controlled by neurons, some of these behaviors are ... these cells and their connections might represent the nervous system of an ancient animal ancestor. Image A placozoan ...