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By employing the new research capability of single-cell profiling, MIT neuroscientists find that Alzheimer's disease’s disruptions converge on five main areas of cellular function, or “pathways,” in each of five major brain cell types.
We learn about the psychology behind our discomfort with pursuing new, challenging goals
MIT researchers have found that information is stored not by persistent neural activity, but by the pattern of the connections, or synapses, formed among neurons.
There are two fundamentally different cell types in the brain, neurons and glial cells. The latter, for example, insulate the "wiring" of nerve cells or guarantee optimal working conditions for them.
The phenomenon of apes learning sign language isn’t new.