Researchers have discovered another layer of complexity in gene expression, which could help explain how we're able to have so many billions of neurons in our brain.

A team from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, University of California Berkeley and Harvard University created a molecular catalog that describes the different types of these neurons.

They confirmed a linkage between microglia cells - a type of immune cell in the brain - and Alzheimer's and uncovered a linkage between certain types of brain neurons and schizophrenia, a severe ...

Scientists have identified two types of brain cells in the abdomen that appear to control different aspects of digestion.

Chronic stress-related neurons identified Date: June 23, 2023 Source: Karolinska Institutet Summary: Researchers have identified a group of nerve cells in the mouse brain that are involved in ...

Our long-term research goal is to decipher the gene regulatory network that directs the embryonic development of various types of neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC, aka ARH).

One type of cell mapped by the scientists, called a Martinotti cell, sends out inhibitory signals that dampen the activity of other neurons in the brain.

The neural map covers one-third of the fruit fly brain, making it the largest connectome, or wiring diagram, ever worked out.