Every organism must be able to respond to stimuli in its environment, but when animal sizes strain the limits of neuron signaling, how do these massive creatures adapt?

A new MIT study that focuses on a single cell in one of nature’s simplest nervous systems provides an in-depth illustration of how individual neurons can use multiple means to drive complex behaviors.

A textbook-diagram-like image of a monkey's neurons firing after looking at another monkey eating a banana is a classic ...

Our bodies’ nerve cells are important for transmitting electrical and chemical information between different parts of the brain and between the brain and other parts of the nervous system. One of the ...

“Do you think all mental conditions have a physical component in the brain?” someone once asked me. “Absolutely!” I answered. Then I qualified that I didn’t believe the mind and brain are the same nor ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at New York University have ...

Irish actor Michael Patrick has died at the age of 35 after a three-year long battle with Motor Neuron Disease. Learn about ...