Structure and Function – The New Complexity of Neural Networks

No other cell type is better at juggling signals: The neuron is both a data octopus and a supercomputer.

The brain functions based on neural networks that change and adapt throughout a person's lifetime

To prevent animals from bumping into one another, their sensory organs and motor skills are in constant communication.

They’re old, but not outdated: sight and hearing are full of amazing evolutionary tricks.

The adult brain, too, is constantly restructuring itself, thereby enabling lifelong learning.

Learning is as spiny path – as synapses vividly illustrate.

Researchers are searching for new treatment approaches for injuries to the nervous system.

It is the white sheath that glial cells form around axons that makes high speed pathways in the brain possible.

Complex proteins span the membranes of nerve cells. Without these ion channels, literally nothing works.