You probably think of your nervous system as a kind of computer network, or some kind of electrical system that passes nerve impulses around. But in reality, the miraculous journey of a signal ...

While the neural architecture responsible for the transmission of electrical impulses has been known for more than a century, the basic biology behind how a neuron acquires its one and only axon -- a ...

Each class of ORNs in Drosophila melanogaster expresses 1–2 specific olfactory receptors 1,2,3,4,5 that presumably bind specific odorant molecules. ORNs target their axons to structures called ...

The human brain contains nearly 86 billion neurons, constantly exchanging messages like an immense social media network, but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and ...

Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic brain disorder that affects ∼1% of the population. Although psychotic symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations, are usually the presenting and most striking ...

Stylized axon arbor of a neuron. Yellow circle: root vertex at the axon initial segment; red circles: bifurcation vertices; black circles: terminal vertices at the axon's synaptic terminals.

RIVERSIDE, Calif.-- While the neural architecture responsible for the transmission of electrical impulses has been known for more than a century, the basic biology behind how a neuron acquires its one ...