How are synapses formed, those points of contact that allow the transmission of information from one neuron to the other? Working with an international team, researchers from the Leibniz ...

How Do Neurons Work? Neurons transmit sensory and mechanical information across synapses and along axons throughout the body via chemical signals and electrical impulses.

New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave and change as an organism develops. The new work could help scientists better understand the formation ...

Scientists have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make decisions, revealing a crucial role for electrical synapses in 'filtering' sensory information. The new research ...

One of the brain’s most important properties is its flexibility. Our cerebral circuitry changes constantly—every day, new links are made amongst the 86 billion individual neurons in our heads ...

Super Speedy Synapses In The Ear Keep Us From Falling, And Now We Know How The mechanism of a superfast type of synaptic transmission has been revealed after years of research.

Recently, neuroscientists have discovered surprising new details about how your brain decides which synapses—the tiny connections between nerve cells—get stronger or weaker as you learn. These ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded John A. Moran Eye Center scientist Bryan W. Jones, PhD, funding as part of an international group of neuroscientists that will explore the connections ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed a new type of spintronic device that mimics how synapses work in the brain—offering a path to more energy-efficient and accurate ...

We hope our work garners global attention from those in the filed of synapse research.” The authors emphasize novel approaches for designing future tools for synapse labeling and understanding ...

The work, published in Advanced Functional Materials ("Photoferroelectric Perovskite Synapses for Neuromorphic Computing"), offers a potential pathway for building intelligent machines and computers ...