New research indicates individual human neurons may harbor up to 1,000 genetic mutations. A single neuron in a normal adult brain likely has more than a thousand genetic mutations that are not present ...

Now, researchers have identified a possible genetic trigger that led to increased neuron production in that brain region, which is associated with higher-level cognition as well as impulse control and ...

it greatly reduces the likelihood of action potentials by making the neuron more “leaky,” a function not possible in ion pumps like halorhodopsin. Deisseroth’s team made a final mutation to a cysteine ...