During brain development neurons send out axons, long thin processes. Axons grow towards a target area, where they eventually form synaptic connections with target cells to form functional neuronal ...

How a person's brain grows and makes connections can determine intelligence as well as susceptibility to disorders such as ...

The first pathological descriptions of the disease 150 years ago already showed that demyelinated axons could degenerate. Recent evidence suggests that multiple sclerosis also affects neurons ...

Myelinated axons are present in sensory neurons and motor neurons, but not all sensory and motor neurons are myelinated. Most neurons that carry signals regarding movement and higher-level ...

1 Neurons are composed of a cell body containing the nucleus, dendrites that receive chemical, electrical, or other signals via receptors or through gap junctions (direct connections between two ...

For decades, scientists have focused on amyloid plaques—abnormal clumps of misfolded proteins that accumulate between neurons ...

Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Unlike most cells, neurons expand beyond their spherical cell bodies into a complex labyrinth of protrusions that evoke visions of naked trees in ...

Dr. Rasband's team is discovering the functional organization of axons in health as well as disease or injury. The generation, propagation, and modulation of electrical signals in the nervous system ...

We are particularly interested in understanding how receptors located on the surface of developing axons and neurons interact with extracellular ligands to guide the development of the nervous system ...

Interestingly, HDAC8 is specifically produced in Schwann cells surrounding sensory neurons that transmit information ... repair task force' that restores axons The peripheral nervous system ...