The ability to regulate one's own food intake is essential to the survival of both humans and other animals. This innate ability ensures that the body receives the nutrients it needs to perform daily ...

Scientists have pinpointed a brain circuit that, when activated, reduces anxiety without impairing memory. Using ...

General principles of neuron pathway finding throughout the nervous system exist. Comprehension of these concepts guides neuroscience nurses in gaining an understanding of the developmental course ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial pathway that links brain cell activity to the activation of genes responsible for ...

Many of the mechanisms during neuron pathway finding are redundant and resilient. Thus, severe aberrations must occur for major developmental abnormalities to be observed. Abberations would be ...

This previously unappreciated "coincidence detection circuit" highlights that the interplay of these opposing pathways ensures proper neuronal migration. Push-and-pull regulates neuron migration ...

New research on nematodes reveals how glial cells maintain and monitor neuronal dendrites. Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy ...

Researchers have identified a key pathway that links how neurons send ... The nucleus where the genes that modify neuron function are controlled is a long distance away from where neurons receive ...

Defects in a critical cellular pathway can lead to symptoms of Parkinson’s disease ... Dopamine is one of many types of neurotransmitter -- chemical signals that one neuron launches at its neighbor to ...

Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature). Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons ...