Most human nerve cells last a lifetime without renewal. A trait echoed within the cells' components, some enduring as long as the organism itself. Most human nerve cells last a lifetime without ...

"Super-agers" seem to produce more new nerve cells in a brain region important for memory than other people their age ...

Microneurography is a method that allows the researchers to listen to the nerve signalling in one nerve cell at a time. No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and ...

Neuropathic pain is a devastating type of pain that significantly reduces the quality of life of affected people.

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR) at the Central Institute of Mental Health ...

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a progressive loss of nerve cells leading to a decline in memory and cognition. Now, a new study by a team of researchers at KU Leuven and VIB explored the ...