The brain is one of the most sophisticated systems known, embodying remarkable complexity — and diversity. Structurally, it houses roughly 86 billion neurons ... the journal Neuron, Kubo and ...

In mice, maps of brain-wide inputs to individual neurons that do or do ... could help to explain this functional diversity. The activity of an individual neuron is constrained by the anatomical ...

Multiple interconnected neurons form a neural circuit and use electrical and chemical signals to quickly transmit information throughout an organism. The nervous system is broadly divided into two ...

Indeed, the human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons, and we now know that there may be almost as many unique cell types. Our interest in this incredible diversity emerged from ...

Earlier studies mostly focused on neurogenesis—the generation of neurons in the brain—and fast neuron migration all moving in one direction early in the development of an embryo. But ...

While most of the brain’s neurons are thought to be created before birth, an explosion in neural connections, the myelination of axons, and other developments boost its total volume. Research ...