A new study from Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct ...

Each combines several elements of the basic neuron shape. In terms of function, scientists classify neurons into three broad types: sensory, motor, and interneurons. Sensory neurons are triggered ...

Among these sensory neurons, two types are dedicated ... Using genetic tools to activate these two neuron types with light, the scientists found that stimulating one neuron type caused mice ...

One important observation was that individual olfactory sensory neurons typically express just one of those genes. Thus, signals coming from a given neuron provide information about odors that ...

organic electrochemical neuron that has similar sensory responses to human neurons, according to a recent study. The development has the potential to propel the progress of intelligent robots ...

New research using a mouse model of the motor neuron disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) reveals an abnormality in the way that sensory information is relayed to motor neurons in the spinal cord.

neuron in the spinal cord and the trigeminal ganglia neuron in the skull. It has a typical clinical presentation, with sensory deficits that are not dependent on length and patients often report a ...

In a new study of worm locomotion, researchers show that a single type of motor neuron harbors an entire ... nervous system is capable of translating sensory input into motion and behavior.

Among these sensory neurons, two types are dedicated ... Using genetic tools to activate these two neuron types with light, the scientists found that stimulating one neuron type caused mice ...