4 Action potentials Typically, neurons share information by producing electrical events called action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, which involve rapid changes in voltage across their ...

Neurons are cells that act as the brain's fundamental building blocks, transmitting information through electrical signals. When a neuron receives a stimulus, changes in membrane voltage (the ...

New research details the subcellular structures in neurons that enable signals to be transmitted from where they are received ...

The answer lies in a membrane structure called myelin ... structurally and maintain their long-term neuronal integrity, and neurons regulate glial cell behavior. In this support of neurons ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Each time a terminal receives an electrical impulse from the cell soma ... receptors in the postsynaptic neuron are heavily enriched in specialized membrane structures that are directly apposed ...

elegans and mammalian neuronal cultures (Fonte et al, 2011). We propose that a primary mechanism of Abeta toxicity is the formation of membrane-damaging oligomers, which is blocked by the G37L ...