News tagged with mt neurons

Sensory wiring for smells varies among individuals

If, as Shakespeare's Juliet declared, a rose by any other name smells as sweet – to you and to me and to anyone else who sniffs it – then one might assume that our odor-sensing nerve cells are all wired in the same ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Mar 30, 2011 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Brain mechanisms for behavioral flexibility

New research provides insight into how the brain can execute different actions in response to the same stimulus. The study, published by Cell Press in the April 16 issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that i ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Apr 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0