A new study reveals that neurons establish 'mini-computers' very early in life to make the brain computationally powerful. A new mouse study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) ...

When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that with surprising precision, sending targeted feedback to individual neurons ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Efforts to design computing systems that operate more like the brain have pushed engineers to rethink how information is processed, transmitted, and stored. Biological neurons are ...

A typical neuron is composed of three main structures: the cell body, axon, and dendrites. The cell body is where most of the cellular organelles are located, including the nucleus, which contains the ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and ...

The neurons in our brain that underlie thought connect to each other using tiny branch-like structures on their surfaces known as dendritic spines. Now scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and ...