Using in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell, scientists have demonstrated that neurons can transform from one type ...

Are artificial neurons underestimating the power of their biological models? Ten years after initial theoretical predictions, ...

This implies that under certain conditions, even brain cells change, and so do their functions. This is noteworthy as it ...

One particularly intriguing feature of these networks is the balance between the activity of excitatory and inhibitory neurons, which has been observed across different brain regions." The key ...

The mouse area contains a higher proportion of excitatory neurons, which propagate signals, relative to inhibitory neurons, which dampen activity. The human region had a much greater proportion of ...

They focused on the orientation of cilia antennae, which sense and respond to their environment on the excitatory neurons. Researchers looked for orientation changes during postnatal development ...

Neurons come in two main “flavors,” excitatory and inhibitory. When an excitatory neuron receives enough input from other excitatory neurons, it fires, passing that signal along its axon to partners ...

A key pressure-sensing protein involved in gut motility could be utilized for precision-targeted treatments for intestinal ...

Once they traverse the gap between neurons (synaptic cleft), neurotransmitters interact with excitatory or inhibitory receptors on the receiving cell to generate excitatory or inhibitory signals.

Since its introduction to medicine over 180 years ago, general anaesthesia has remained mostly unknown. Even though it is one of the safest medical techniques, we still don't fully understand how ...

EPFL researchers use fruit fly brains and optogenetics to develop agile robotic systems, bridging neuroscience and advanced ...