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A new study challenges the long-held belief that axons, brain cell extensions, are tube-like, revealing instead a "pearl-on-a ...

Reflex actions are quick because there is a direct link in the spinal cord called an inter neuron (between the sensory neuron and a motor neuron) that causes a muscle to make the protective response.

What really happens in our brain when we think or move? This question, as old as it is fascinating, takes a new turn thanks ...

Faced with the incredible variety of structure and composition of proteins ... In order to become a distinct cell type like a muscle cell or a neuron, cells must go through a series of developmental ...

These early changes in brain structure could play a crucial role ... which represents neuron cell bodies, and directional ...