Increasing multidisciplinarity has also boosted information flow, as researchers who had previously focused exclusively on neurons have begun to consider glial cells in their experimental designs.

This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks ...

Researchers have uncovered how non-neuronal cells in the brain – glial cells – play an active role in regulating sleep and ...

Homeostasis is the ability of living organisms to maintain stable internal conditions, such as temperature, hydration and ...

However, it has so far not been known how local changes in ion concentration affect individual neurons and glial cells. Previous attempts to change the extracellular milieu have primarily involved ...

New research published in the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms offers insights into how glial cells — the supportive cells ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences have now shown that, in addition to neurons, special glial cells in the brain also produce amyloid beta. This finding ...

Zhang studies astrocytes because they are the most common glial cell in the brain and because they are neurons’ next of kin. “During development, neural stem cells generate neurons first and later go ...

non-neuronal cells in our central nervous system that help support, feed, and protect neurons. Importantly, the ways in which glial cells work have a lot to do with what happens in AD patients.