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A set of neurons in the brain’s central amygdala plays a key role in forming memories of aversive experiences, scientists find in mice.  

Recording from single neurons of epilepsy patients, neuroscientists show that both the strength and timing of neuronal firing are important to consciously perceive a visual object. 

To chew up waste in far-reaching dendritic spines, lysosomes are trafficked sometimes hundreds of microns away from the cell bodies of neurons in rats. 

Neurons in a mouse model of autism consistently fire in response to whisker agitation.

Scientists block particular enzymes to remove the cellular signatures associated with specific memory types.  

The enzyme acetyl-CoA synthetase 2 turns on memory-building genes within the nuclei of hippocampal neurons. 

Adult olfactory stem cells can be used to grow a smattering of cells important for smell, including scent-sniffing neurons and structurally supportive sustentacular cells. 

Using three-dimensional culture, which allows cells to grow in a ball-shape aggregate, scientists created inner ear organoids containing sensory neurons and hair cells.

Neurons in the spinal cord thought to be itch-specific also act as a braking mechanism for intense pain, scientists show.

When glutamate neurons are inactivated in rats, the rodents are still capable of REM sleep—but they lose the sleep paralysis unique to REM.

Neuroscientists identify how the left and right hemispheres of the mammalian brain connect during development.

With light, researchers can coax a group of neurons in the visual cortices of living mice to fire in concert.

Many avian species have more neurons than do mammals with similar-mass brains.

Scientists image the activity of adult-born neurons in the brains of waking mice, and reveal roles for the cells in learning and memory.

A web of cell types in one of the brain’s chief wake centers keeps animals up—but also puts them to sleep.

Inhibiting the activity of a protein involved in the body’s stress response can ease chronic pain in mice.

Some antibodies designed to eliminate the plaques prominent in Alzheimer’s disease can aggravate neuronal hyperactivity in mice.

Researchers identify a new type of brain cell in male Caenorhabditis elegans.

With the help of a supercomputer, researchers have reconstructed part of a juvenile rat cortex.

How the human ear translates sound waves into nervous impulses