Tag: Neurons

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock therapy, involves inducing a brief seizure in the brain using controlled doses of ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study challenges a common belief in what triggers Parkinson's disease. Degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is widely ...

Can you recognize someone you haven't seen in years, but forget what you had for breakfast yesterday? Our brains constantly ...

A non-opioid designer molecule for treating chronic neuropathic pain by calming hyperactive pain-sensing neurons in the peripheral nervous system has ...

Neuroscientists from the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University, Rome Campus, and the A. Gemelli IRCCS Polyclinic Foundation found ...

Injuries to the nerves can blind or paralyze because adult nerve cells don't regenerate their connections. Now, a team of ...

Brains are like puzzles, requiring many nested and codependent pieces to function well. The brain is divided into areas, each ...

In a recent review published in Biomedicines, researchers explored extracellular vesicles (EVs), cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs), and micro ribonucleic acids (miRNAs) ...

Why do some people get ADHD, while others do not? And how early in life or in the womb is ...

How does the brain produce behavior? Studying the brain during behavior is most informative when the animal is free to ...