A study has described how a gene mutation linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disrupts the stability of neurons and “chokes off” their nuclei, impairing their function, and suggests that an ...

Pyramidal neurons have basal and apical dendrites, including an apical tuft. This preserved core structure suggests that they have conserved core functions, whereas structural variation in other ...

Function of mysterious structure found on neurons Date: November 11, 2021 Source: University of California - Davis Health Summary: Researchers have discovered that mysterious clusters of proteins ...

Fifty years after it was originally discovered, scientists in Switzerland have elucidated the function of a microscopic network of tubules found in neurons. This structure modulates the strength ...

A team of researchers based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the United States) has tried to shed light on the ...

“We’ve known for some time that ovarian hormones, and particularly estradiol — a type of estrogen — have important consequences for neurons’ structure and function,” said UCSB ...

Recently, researchers at UC Santa Barbara used modern laser microscopy techniques to observe how fluctuations in ovarian hormones shape both the structure and function of neurons in the mouse ...

The brain's structure has columnar features, which are hypothesized to arise from nerve cells (neurons) stemming from the same parent cell, initially forming radial units. How exactly this process ...