Okazaki, Japan –Current clinical management of chronic pain is suboptimal as patients often continue to experience unpleasant pain even after the causative injury has resolved. In this study, ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have unraveled the processes that give astrocytes, the most abundant glial cell in the brain, their special bushy shape, which is fundamental for brain ...

When astrocyte function is disrupted, neurons in the brain's motor cortex struggle to execute and refine motion, a new study in mice shows. From steering a car to swinging a tennis racket, we learn to ...

Decades before Alzheimer’s disease symptoms appear, neurons become hyperactive, and the reason could be that astrocytes fail to keep them in check. In a bioRxiv preprint uploaded on April 26, ...

From steering a car to swinging a tennis racket, we learn to execute all kinds of skilled movements during our lives. You might think this learning is only implemented by neurons, but a new study by ...

Although astrocytes are as prevalent in the brain as neurons, their role in neural processing remains less explored. A recent study conducted by researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and ...

Astrocytes — named for their star-like shape — are a type of brain cell as abundant as neurons in the central nervous system, ...

When it comes to brain function, neurons get a lot of the glory. But healthy brains depend on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. The most abundant of the brain's non-neuronal cells are astrocytes ...

Scientists have discovered that a specific type of brain cell, called an astrocyte, may be a key player in how cannabis ...