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.

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 ...

In brain cells, neurotransmitters are carried inside “cellular vehicles”. Scientists elucidate the mechanisms behind the motion of these vehicles in mammalian synapses. In brain cells, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

La Jolla, CA - Every neurobiology textbook invariably states that nerve cells communicate with each other through synapses, the specialized cell-cell contacts found at the end of the cells' threadlike ...

Researchers have created a device that can integrate and interact with neuron-like cells. This could be an early step toward an artificial synapse for use in brain-computer interfaces. In 2017, ...

Our modern world is loud. Just sitting in a car, or an airplane, or watching movie previews, we are bombarded with sound. Even when those noises aren’t damaging to the sensitive microphone that is our ...

While the mechanism of transmission of information at the contact point between two neurons -- the famous synapse -- has been thoroughly studied, the transportation of this information within the ...