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.

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

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

New research challenges long-standing ideas on how neurotransmitter gets released at neuronal synapses. In a Neuron article published online October 10th, recent Nobel Laureate Thomas C. Südhof ...

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 ...

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 ...

Examining the development autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities, Alzheimer’s disease, and epilepsy via neurotransmitter receptors and synapses. Peter Juo’s lab is focused on how ...

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.

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 ...