A new study reveals how young synapses gradually mature to send chemical signals correctly — a process that can take days and depends on neural activity.

A research team has resolved a 50-year-old controversy in neuroscience. By employing a self-developed, time-resolved ...

Nervous system functions, from motion to perception to cognition, depend on the active zones of neural circuit connections ...

Columbia University scientists have developed a new optical technique to study how information is transmitted in the brains of mice. Using this method, they found that only a small portion of synapses ...

An international research team led by a University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine investigator has revealed ultra-detailed ...

Researchers at Columbia University say they have developed a new optical technique to study how information is transmitted in the brains of mice. Using this method, they found that only a small ...

Scientists have taken a detailed look at how information is transmitted in the brain, and what they found surprised them: Only a fraction of the synapses that serve as connections seem to be active.

Neurons communicate via chemical transmitters which they store in the bubble-like synaptic vesicles and release as required. To be able to react reliably to stimulation, neurons must have a certain ...

Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that a protein acts like a volume dial for the release of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that neurons release across ...

Biomimetic stimulation of the retina with neurotransmitters, the natural agents of communication at chemical synapses, could be more effective than electrical stimulation for treating blindness from ...

NEW YORK, NY (Feb. 25, 2016) -- Columbia University scientists have developed a new optical technique to study how information is transmitted in the brains of mice. Using this method, they found that ...