For decades, textbooks told students the human brain contained 100 billion neurons. That figure, repeated so often it became ...

Neuronal Type Assignment from Connectivity (NTAC) transforms a connectome into a graph, and detects neuron types using "connectivity fingerprints” and groups the neuronal cell types in the connectome.

The human brain contains nearly 86 billion neurons, constantly exchanging messages like an immense social media network, but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and ...

Neuronal Type Assignment from Connectivity (NTAC) transforms a connectome into a graph, and detects neuron types using "connectivity fingerprints” and groups the neuronal cell types in the connectome.

Northeastern University scientists have discovered that a protein in the human brain could potentially be used to grow new neurons in the lab and enhance brain processes affected by aging or ...

And yet we know surprisingly little about them. While the cellular biology of this critical organ has been mapped out, ...

The human brain develops over decades, making this process notoriously difficult to model in a dish. Now, scientists have taken a step toward this goal. As described in preprint posted October 2 on ...

Ferroptosis, a type of cell death, may help maintain neuron balance in the hippocampus, supporting memory, learning and brain ...

Summary: Researchers cracked open the earliest cellular origins of Rett syndrome. The investigation bypassed traditional tissue-level barriers by physically separating genetically healthy and mutated ...

Recent technological advances facilitate the reconstruction of complete brain connectomes in small organisms and partial connectomes in mammals, involving the mapping of the network of neurons and ...