A team of scientists led by the University College London (UCL) has explored how the brain manages synaptic connections ...

During the first half of sleep, the brain actively weakens the synaptic connections formed during wakefulness, supporting the ...

Developing nerve cells outside the brain is where neuroblastoma, a common childhood disease, starts. Over 40 per cent of ...

A neuron has an orientation to it, a polarity - a front end and back end. At the front are the dendrites, spidery and often dense projections that all converge and meet at the cell body.

Underpinning this process is a phenomenon known as dendritic translation, which involves an uptick in localized protein production within dendrites, the spiny branches that project off the neuron ...

"The reason this is interesting is because layer 1 is packed with apical dendrites (long branches of neurons), which experiments conducted in our lab and others suggest play a key role in perception.

Neuroblastoma is a common pediatric cancer that originates in developing nerve cells outside the brain. While increasingly ...

However appealing the oily stuff may be to anyone with even slight petrolhead leanings, the fact is that software is becoming ...

Here the molecules form straight lines (dendrites) which branch out in different directions, creating the star-like patterns we tend to see on Christmas decorations. High humidity also creates ...

Silicon anodes could greatly improve battery performance in electric cars. They absorb a lot of lithium, but that also have a ...