How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are transmitted between nerve cells using molecular containers called vesicles. Now, ...

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 ...

Nerve cells regulate and routinely refresh the collection of calcium channels that enable them to send messages across circuit connections. The nervous system works because neurons communicate across ...

Based on the DA mediation, some sophisticated neuronal functions, including integration-and-firing, synaptic facilitation-induced spike broadening and DA-tunable spiking number and width, were ...

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

Neurons communicate across synapses. Scientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT sought to determine how neurons sustain their capacity to set up and sustain this communication.

When elderly people stay active, their brains have more of a class of proteins that enhances the connections between neurons to maintain healthy cognition, a UC San Francisco study has found. This ...