No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities and ...

Polyneuropathies (PNPs) denote diseases of multiple peripheral nerves and range among the most common neurological diseases 1. Patients affected by PNPs often suffer from progressive sensory and motor ...

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR) at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim provides the first detailed cellular insights into how ...

Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral network begins to take shape long before birth, as the cells of a growing embryo ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

So when you touch a hot stove, the nerve endings in your fingers react instantly. But the ouch comes a split-second later, when that information finally reaches your brain. Well, now, scientists have ...

This short film focuses on the role of nervous system, how it functions, voluntary and involuntary reflexes and the function ...

The cytoskeleton gives cells their shape and helps them move. Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and Ludwig Maximilian University now show that, in neural stem cells, proteins of the cytoskeleton are ...

( NewsNation) — Scientists have treated the first person in a clinical trial testing whether aging cells can be “reprogrammed ...

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), a common disorder in diabetes, is associated with severe microenvironment imbalance due to immunometabolic stress. However, the underlying mechanistic drivers ...

Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...