Like thermostats that switch on heating or cooling to regulate temperature, neurons tune their excitability up or down to weather environmental changes. Who would have thought, though, that nerve ...

Everything your brain does—every memory, decision, emotion and command to move—starts with an electrical signal generated by a neuron. One of the most sophisticated cells in the body, every neuron has ...

Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have, for the first time, witnessed nerve plasticity in the axon in motion. Our nerve cells communicate through rapid transmission of ...