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Serotonin neurons in the brainstem are not independent, as once thought, but interact to influence decision-making.

A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...

A new study reveals how inflammation alters sensory neuron activity, heightening heat sensitivity and contributing to chronic ...

Researchers in optics and brain and cognitive science are investigating whether neurons can transmit light in a manner ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions—choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester have begun an ambitious project to study if living neurons can transmit light through their axons—the long, tail-like nerve fibers of neurons that resemble ...

If these findings are confirmed in humans, it could have implications for treating many diseases where the immune system ...