Neuron Function Synapses Neural synapses are junctions ... to action potentials and voltage-gated calcium channels. Once they traverse the gap between neurons (synaptic cleft), neurotransmitters ...

At these synapses, neurotransmitters carry signals across the gap, instructing the receiving neuron to pass on an ... This process is known as synaptic plasticity, is essential for memory ...

To make their model more realistic, they measured SIE in the presence of a high level of background synaptic activity, and used increasingly complex models of the postsynaptic neuron. Finally ...

A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to show how proteins called "chaperones" are vital in ensuring that neurons can transmit signals to one another.

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 ...