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

Neurons are considered the basic units of the nervous system. Because they are Neurons, sometimes called nerve cells, make up around 10 percent of the brain; the rest consists of glial cells and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The conventional view is that neurons and the rest of the nervous system evolved once in animal evolutionary history. But given this “unique architecture” and ctenophores’ ancient position ...