First map of every neuron in an adult brain has been produced for a fruit fly
The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 ... However, the AI still makes many errors in datasets ...
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How Brain Cells Work
Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...
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How the Brain Decides When You’ve Had Enough to Eat
Columbia scientists have identified specialized brainstem neurons that tell mice when to stop eating. These cells integrate ...
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Single-neuron mechanism may bridge gap between working memory and long-term memory
"Our study suggests that hippocampal persistent activity of the same cells supports both WM maintenance and LTM encoding, thereby revealing a common single-neuron component of these two memory ...
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Specialised cells in animals and plants
Specialised cell type Animal or plant cell ... protein filaments that can slide past each other to shorten the cell Neuron (nerve cell) Animal Transmits electrical impulses from one part of ...
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Neuroligation: building synapses around the neurexin–neuroligin link
A neuron-specific splice ... prominent accumulations of vesicles, the size of synaptic vesicles, were apparent in axons apposed to neuroligin-expressing cells, but not in axons contacting non ...