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The Secret to Success: Communication
No other cell type is better at juggling signals: The neuron is both a data octopus and a supercomputer.
01.12.2020
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- Motor Skills
Highway through the Spinal Cord
Thanks to motor pathways from the brain to the spinal cord, we can move at lightning speed.
01.12.2025
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- The Glymphatic System
The Brain’s Cleanup Crew
The glymphatic system is the brain's cleanup crew, flushing away waste products.
06.11.2024
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- Basics
- Structure and Function
Communication Gaps: Ion Channels
Complex proteins span the membranes of nerve cells. Without these ion channels, literally nothing works.
01.12.2020
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- Basics
- Structure and Function
Connecting Nerves
Learning is as spiny path – as synapses vividly illustrate.
01.12.2020
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- Basics
- Communication of Cells
Nerve Cells in Conversation
No chaos despite sensory overload – neurons communicate silently, efficiently, and at breakneck speed.
16.04.2012
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- Percieve
- Smell & Taste
The Anatomy of Fragrance
Olfactory cells extend directly into the olfactory bulb of the brain, where the scent is assembled.
06.08.2018
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- Basics
- The Developing Brain
Like Mother, like Child
Like mother, like son: Key regulatory circuits in the brain and genes are calibrated before birth
10.02.2026
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- Basics
- Communication of Cells
Dopamine
As a neurotransmitter, dopamine also plays a role in the reward center.
07.05.2012
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- Glossary
Acetylcholine
Acetylcholine is one of the most important neurotransmitters in the nervous system. In the central nervous system, it is involved in attention, learning, and memory; in the peripheral nervous system, it transmits excitation from nerves to muscles at the neuromuscular end plates and controls processes of the autonomic nervous system, i.e., the sympathetic and parasympathetic parts. Areas in which acetylcholine acts as a messenger substance are called cholinergic. It was the first neurotransmitter to be discovered, identified in 1921 by Otto Loewi in the heart of a frog.
