An interview with Tim Strassmaier and James Constantin, Nanion Technologies, conducted at SfN 2018 by Alina Shrourou, BSc. Could you give our readers a bit of general background as to what ion ...

Understanding how nerve cells (neurons) function is essential to finding medical cures for many neuronal diseases, such as epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, stroke, or even severe headaches. Since ...

This image shows a patch-clamp pipette contacting a single neuron in the brain of a mouse. Scientists from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have discovered that individual neurons carry out ...

Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a ...