Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

Zebrafish are freshwater minnows native ... even if his motivations are different. Live images of a brain’s every flashing neuron could hold tremendous power, he says, if scientists also saw ...

and Johns Hopkins found where ketamine acts in the zebrafish brain: at supporting cells called astroglia, rather than neurons. The work is published in the journal Neuron. Previous research by ...

Because zebrafish are small and translucent, researchers can image each animal’s entire brain to better track ... monoaminergic neuromodulation and neuron-astroglial communication,” the ...

Zebrafish are a scientific wonderfish ... [Related: Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time.] In future studies, the team plans to explore how the cells ...

An example of calcium imaging shows neuron activity in a zebrafish brain. It would be like trying to understand a massive company by either interviewing a handful of employees or by only receiving ...

For instance, we found that zebrafish movement relies ... an optical illusion tricks your brain. Our findings reveal that this fractal coordination of neuron activity occurs across a vast ...

On an anatomical level, this feat is accomplished by neural circuits consisting of sensory neurons that—as their name suggests—carry information obtained from the world to the brain ... various vagus ...

The zebrafish brain, though simpler than its ... In the grand ballet of the brain, each neuron plays a part, and thanks to this study, we're one pirouette closer to understanding the choreography ...

The zebrafish brain, though simpler than its ... In the grand ballet of the brain, each neuron plays a part, and thanks to this study, we’re one pirouette closer to understanding the ...