A new study has revealed distinct features of the human hippocampus, a brain region critical for memory storage and retrieval, challenging the assumption that it functions like a scaled-up mouse brain ...
Neurodegeneration, including the loss of synapses, neurons, and glial cells, may be the primary cause of brain atrophy. The brain is a complex organ responsible for everything from physical ...
Each fruit fly brain has 139,255 neurons, which are wired together by more than 50 million synapses, making them quite complex. Of course, this is almost nothing compared to the billions of ...
Multi-dendritic cibarium neurons in the fly pharynx sense mechanical force during swallowing by NOMPC, piezo, and Tmc, besides, these neurons interact with motor neurons to control food swallow.
The black box of the human brain is starting to open. Although animal models are instrumental in shaping our understanding of the mammalian brain, scarce human data is uncovering important ...