Inside the brain is a dense network of neurons that receive, process, and relay information. The synapse, where neurons meet, ...

Your brain is carrying more spare wiring than anyone suspected. In a study that upended a long-standing assumption in ...

Microglia acts as the first line of defense in the central nervous system, constantly scanning for pathogens and abnormalities. Scientists have now demonstrated that microglial genes associated with ...

Figure 1. To observe dynamically changing synapses, dimerization-dependent fluorescent protein (ddFP) was expressed to observe flourescent signals upon synapse formation as ddFP enables fluorescence ...

Tohoku University researchers have shown that Bergmann glial cells, astrocyte-like cells in the cerebellum, 'eat' their neighboring neuronal elements within healthy living brain tissue. Synapses - ...

Whether in the brain or in the muscles, wherever there are nerve cells, there are synapses. These contact points between neurons form the basis for the transmission of excitation, the communication ...

Neurobiologists have uncovered the long-sought-after mechanisms behind the maintenance and decline of key synapses implicated in brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. The researchers identified ...

A technical paper titled “3D Neuromorphic Hardware with Single Thin-Film Transistor Synapses Over Single Thin-Body Transistor Neurons by Monolithic Vertical Integration” was published by researchers ...

Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers. These ...

Researchers at MIT found that roughly a quarter to a third of all synapses in the adult mouse cortex are functionally silent, ...