The brain is constantly mapping the external world like a GPS, even when we don't know about it. This activity comes in the ...

Ion channels in the nervous system refers to the study of ion channels – proteins allowing charged particles to cross membranes – found in neurons and glia, where they are involved in ...

Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire ...

Octopuses don’t think like we do. In fact, most of their neurons aren’t in their brains at all. Instead, they’re spread ...

Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion—10% to 20%—of the neurons in the brain's nucleus accumbens, a critical region linked to motivation and addiction. Though small in numbers, this ...

Heart muscle cells do something similar, issuing electrical “heave-ho” signals that make the organ beat. Skin and other epithelial cells, however, were thought to be silent; they form barrier tissues ...

Researchers are developing promising suppression systems for painful conditions—even an app on your phone that turns the pain ...

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play ...