Neuroscientists have identified that the receptor IL-1R1 plays a critical role in enabling neurons to directly communicate with the immune system. The new study provides the most detailed mapping of ...

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a key molecule involved in inflammation and plays an important role in both healthy and diseased ...

Dentate nucleus neurons can dynamically modulate their activity during a visual attention task, comprising not only sensorimotor but also cognitive attentional components.

Sex differences in brain structure are present from birth, research from the Autism Research Centre at the University of ...

Sex differences in brain structure are present from birth, research from the Autism Research Centre at the University of ...

During the development of the olfactory epithelium (OE), olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) express only one member of the odorant receptor (OR) gene family, and O ...

the “outer” brain handles fast high-dimensional sensory and motor signals, whereas the “inner” brain processes the reduced few bits needed to control behavior. Plausible explanations exist for the ...

This new method offers a more complete understanding of how neurons function, revealing that these two signals encode different information for sensory ... When a neuron receives a stimulus ...

More accurate measures may include the size, neuron count or surface area of specific brain ... Considering what’s known ...