"That's lateral inhibition at work. These inhibitory neurons play a major role in our perception. The brain has evolved this precise wiring and division of labor among different neuron types to ...

The cuttlefish has one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of any invertebrate ... it can detect sound in the form of pressure waves using its lateral epidermal lines. Seen here via a ...

But research hasn’t borne that out, the study authors write. Wiehler and his colleagues instead hypothesized that something was accumulating in the brain, so they looked for evidence of this in a ...

Background Lateral ankle sprains (LAS) are the most common ankle injuries in sports and have the highest recurrence rates. Almost half of these patients develop chronic ankle instability (CAI).