During embryonic development, thousands of cells divide and move as one. Understanding the mechanisms that coordinate this ...

A new model suggests that astrocytes might be used in computation, coordinating with neurons and connecting synapses in ...

For centuries, philosophers and healers alike have speculated about how thoughts, emotions, and consciousness exert tangible ...

But a new area of research has recently emerged: the tempo of brain development. By mapping the birth of neurons in mice, his team has identified a factor in brain formation that had previously been ...

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

This belief follows obtained results on cultured-neuron controllers and recurrent neural networks with time-varying delays. A closer look into how animal and/or human brain cells can be cultivated as ...

The study, published today in the journal Science, provides direct evidence for the real-time action of a star-shaped type of glial cell, known as astrocytes, in the live brains of fruit flies.

"It's overwhelmingly complicated," Guttenplan said. At the same time, researchers are increasingly finding evidence that glial cells play a role in brain injuries and in neurodegenerative ...

In both Drosophila and mammals, the brain contains the most diverse population of cell types of ... or a few closely related neuron subtypes. The adult central brain (i.e. brain without optic lobes) ...

However, current neurotechnology solutions do not distinguish between neuron types. Neurons are excitable cells that receive and send signals that consist of a cell body, branch-like structures ...