Neurons are cells in the nervous system that send and receive messages throughout your body, allowing your brain to control everything you do. They're even involved in how your brain processes eating.

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked, and the associated neuron made to fire, by a direct stimulus such as ...

memory formation hinges on connections between groups of engram cells, which are neurons thought to capture and store ...

There must be something about the human brain that’s different from the brains of other animals — something that enables humans to plan, imagine the future, solve crossword puzzles, tell ...

How does the brain retain a sequence of events in memory? Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, the University Hospital Tübingen and the University of Tübingen ...

Scientists are working on breaking the physical limits of what semiconductors can do, merging human brain neurons with ...

Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that is activated both when performing an action and when observing another individual perform that same action, a process thought to help an individual ...

Cells with electrophysiological activity obtained at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) are opening up new ...

Twomey’s previous research has shown that drugs such as perampanel, used to treat epilepsy, act as a door stopper around the ...