brain cell

Individual pieces of research have gradually identified a host of different brain cell types, upending our simple image of the brain as a very powerful computer.

Sex differences play out in brain cells, too.

The brain cells that fire during learning and memory are firing in response to the concept of that character and will fire in any context in which that concept features.

She said broadly speaking, chronic stress kills brain cells in the hippocampus, which is the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory.

But in the event of an infection or other trauma, the amyloid beta can’t distinguish between the invading pathogens and the host brain cells, and it may end up attacking both.