Instead, the brain must calculate which motor neurons to activate based on sensory data it receives about the body's current posture. Indeed, deactivating sensory neurons that monitor the fly's head ...

Researchers, supported by the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, have created a comprehensive map of the fruit fly brain, identifying ...

US researchers have found an astonishingly simple brain circuit of just three types of neurons controls chewing motions in ...

The matrix cells that give rise to these pathways receive input from sensory processing regions such as the visual cortex and ...

Relay neurons connect sensory neurons to motor neurons. Motor neuron sends electrical impulses to an effector. Effector produces a response (muscle contracts to move hand away). Organisms are able ...

The mechanics of how memories form, strengthen, and weaken over time have largely been a mystery. Now, emerging research ...

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Among all the primary sensory neurons, those innervating muscle spindles in the jaw-closing muscles are exceptionally located in the brainstem as the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus (MTN), thereby ...

Motor neurons innervate muscle cells to control various voluntary and involuntary movements. The progressive degeneration of motor neurons is the core of neuromuscular disorders, such as ALS.