When a person thinks, speaks, eats, walks, or just sits comfortably with all bodily systems functioning normally, the billions of cells that make up the brain and ... the axon of one neuron ...

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists discovered cells within the brain's hippocampus that store ... to account for this overlap in function. One is that the circuit is specialized to store spatial ...

“For years, scientists studied the effects of aging on the brain mostly one cell at a time,” said John Ngai, PhD, director of The BRAIN Initiative. “Now, with innovative mapping tools ...