“If we go back to the early 1900s, this is when the idea was first proposed that memories are physically stored in some location within the brain,” says Michael R. Williamson, a researcher at the ...

When it comes to brain function, neurons get a lot of the glory. But healthy brains depend on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. The most abundant of the brain's non-neuronal cells are astrocytes ...

Astrocytes make up almost half of a person’s brain cells and are increasingly recognized to play a role in neurodegenerative disease, yet surprisingly little is known about how these cells behave in ...

Astrocytes are highly heterogeneous neuroglial cells with distinct functional and morphological characteristics in different parts of the brain. They are responsible for maintaining a number of ...

Albert HiuKa Fok receives funding from FRQS. Sabrina Chierzi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has ...