Matching form and function of brain cell types Date: April 25, 2023 Source: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Summary: Investigators have created computer-generated models to bridge the gap between ...

The study used data from laboratory mice to establish a new method for examining relationships between neuron type and function, and focused on the mouse primary visual cortex, which receives and ...

Metabolism models may explain why Alzheimer's disease kills some neuron types first Date: December 7, 2010 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: Bioengineers developed an ...

A new technique reveals cells’ precise locations and functions in the brain. Its developers have already used it to identify a previously unknown neuron type.

Computational neuroscientists use an input-output function to model the relationship between the inputs received by a biological neuron’s long treelike branches, called dendrites, and the neuron’s ...

A new study led by Salk Professor and President Rusty Gage, which published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry on January 4, 2021, shows that decreased activation of a gene called LEF1 disrupts ...