For decades, textbooks told students the human brain held roughly 100 billion neurons and that glial cells outnumbered them ten to one. Both figures were wrong. Direct cell counts using a technique ...
Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images ) The ability to focus is not unique to humans or even to primates. Birds, ...
Insights from advanced imaging technology show how neurons communicate at the atomic level for the first time. For the first time, scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) used advanced ...
A zebra finch can fit in the palm of your hand, but its brain is doing something that looks almost unruly. Inside one part of the adult songbird brain, newly formed neurons do not politely weave ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In the early 1990s, a team of neuroscientists ...
Language-Specific Hardware: At the single-neuron level inside the hippocampus, individual cells are largely language-specific ...
Neurodegenerative diseases affect tens of millions of people worldwide. Among these, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases are the most common; in the United States alone, the Alzheimer's Disease ...
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Higher iron in the brain may be the tipping point that kills neurons, a new study finds
Neurons exposed to chronic iron overload do not simply die on contact. Instead, they enter a weakened, primed state that ...
Mirror neurons, in Heyes' view, aren't evolved specifically “for” understanding, imitation, or any other purpose – rather, they're simply ordinary motor-cortex neurons that happen to take on special ...
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