Neuroscientists have carefully studied how synapses only have access to their own “local” information, yet collectively they ...

Scientists have used gene editing to produce artificial electrical synapses in mice, where they can be targeted to make the ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house ...

New research reveals that individual neurons follow multiple learning rules simultaneously, challenging the long-held belief that synaptic plasticity operates uniformly throughout the brain.

memory formation hinges on connections between groups of engram cells, which are neurons thought to capture and store ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...

How does one nerve cell transmit the nerve impulse to another cell? Electron microscopy and other methods show that it does so by means of special extensions that deliver a squirt of transmitter ...

An electrical impulse cannot directly cross the gap so a different mechanism has to be used. Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

Jennifer Morgan, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, studies how the synapse malfunctions in ...

The brain runs on energy. Every thought, memory, or emotion sparks countless signals between nerve cells. That communication ...