Synaptic configurations play a key role in how the nervous system processes sensory information to generate behavioral ...

How do neurons manage to become self-organized ... that we will soon be able to reconstruct the function of a synapse and causally connect the networks of chemical reactions inside synapses ...

When comparing gene expression across species, many differences turn out to be related to how the connections between neurons — called synapses — connect with and signal to each other.

Despite their important role in linking neurons across different brain regions, the way synapses form and function is still not well understood, said Assistant Professor Soham Chanda. To answer ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital traced connectivity between neurons to identify how the brain ...

Pyramidal neurons receive input from other neurons via thousands of connection points. Early in life, these synapses are ...

To travel from the axon of one neuron to the dendrite of another neuron, a signal must cross the gap between neurons (the synapse), where it is translated from an electrical signal to a chemical ...

Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent continuous stimulation of postsynaptic neurons. There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the ...

St. Jude researchers developed a 3D atlas tracing brain connections to spinal V1 interneurons, crucial for movement. Using ...

The study helps in understanding about the nervous system's physical landscape and how the brain communicates with the spine.