Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Currently dopamine replacement medications, like levodopa and dopamine agonists, are the primary treatment for Parkinson's ...

Mild physical activity, such as a short, slow run, can temporarily but effectively boost executive function. Previous rodent ...

Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change ...

This study provides important findings on the neural circuits underlying dishabituation of the olfactory avoidance response in Drosophila. The data as presented provide solid evidence that the ...

AMSBIO has launched a comprehensive range of Quick-Neuron™ differentiation kits, designed to simplify and accelerate the ...

Scientists have discovered that neurons exposed to Botox (botulinum toxin A) don't just survive—they fight back. A new study shows that tiny fragments of tRNA, a type of genetic material, help ...

In this paper Weber et al. investigate the role of 4 dopaminergic neurons of the Drosophila larva in mediating the association between an aversive high-salt stimulus and a neutral odor. The 4 DANs ...

Given the potent effects of the compounds on autophagy, and the interest in modulation of autophagy as a therapeutic option for neurodegenerative diseases, such as AD, we next tested the compounds in ...

The coordination of motor function in the spinal cord depends on selective connections between distinct classes of motor neurons and their target muscles. However, knowledge regarding the anatomical ...

Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire chatter all over the nervous system. Heart muscle cells do something ...

Unlike neurons, astrocytes don’t send electrical impulses, but they communicate through calcium signals. Scientists have found that these signals let astrocytes sync up with neuron activity.