During motion vision certain neurons are activated by motion in one direction and inhibited by motion in the opposite direction. Researchers now show that the underlying computation is performed ...

The process may someday be used in humans with spinal cord injuries to minimize or reverse the damage to nerve cells that results in paralysis, says Richard B. Borgens, professor of developmental ...

Specific types of nerve cells that are routinely generated in the lab include midbrain dopamine neurons, motoneurons, GABA+ interneurons and sensory neurons. Schematic illustration of the three main ...

The tail enables the sperm to swim. The nerve cell is extended, so that nerves can run to and from different parts of the body to the central nervous system. The cell has extensions and branches ...

This diagram shows molecules moving from area ... sodium out of the cells and potassium into the cells. This helps nerve cells to transmit nerve impulses. Your brain contains around 85 billion ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...