A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the ...

If a patient does have decaying neurons, they can be given a treatment to stop the decaying before they are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or any other neurodegenerative disease.

Some food items are chewy, some are crispy, and others just melt inside your mouth. The impact of texture is rarely mentioned but it plays an important role in our eating habits. We care about ...

Researchers have discovered neurons in the fly larva mouth that allow the taste of food texture. The study found that the fly peripheral taste organ has neurons with texture-tasting ...

To make memories, new neurons must erase older ones Date: November 13, 2009 Source: Cell Press Summary: Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to ...

Researchers gathered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 4-7 February 2013 for the Keystone Symposium “New Frontiers in Neurodegenerative Disease Research.” Whether sipping wine in the poster hall or mingling at ...

Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections. That's the conclusion of a report in the Nov. 13 issue of the journal Cell, a ...

Neuron decay is behind neuron decay in Alzheimer, seizures, spinal cord injury, ... “For example neurons at the base of the brain play an important role in preventing the onset of heart failure.

In a majority of cases, the time course of activity changes could be characterized by exponential decay or buildup, suggesting that these neurons contributed to coding the development of time.