Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

In the Nature Communications research, the scientists replicated learning over time by studying two types of non-brain human cells in a laboratory (one from nerve tissue and one from kidney tissue) ...

and "listen in on" an individual nerve cell to find out if that particular nerve cell is reacting and sending signals to the ...

The study, led by Nikolay V. Kukushkin of New York University and published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, ...

Researchers found that when the device was aimed at the right spot in the brain, it could slow the development of symptoms, ...

A brain circuit made up of three types of neurons may regulate appetite, a mouse study finds. The drive to eat may be ...

CLEVELAND—Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating disease of the brain and spinal cord that impacts millions worldwide. In ...

Penn Medicine researchers discovered that liver signals regulate eating patterns by interacting with brain centers, a process ...

Disruptions between the brain's master circadian clock and the liver's internal clock, communicated via the hepatic afferent ...