Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

Scientists have uncovered how a protein helps build and maintain vital brain connections, providing insights into the ...

A biphasic structural plasticity rule interacts with homeostatic synaptic scaling to maintain firing rate homeostasis in neural networks.

This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...

The protein is linked to a type of muscular dystrophy Jennifer Jahncke, Ph.D. (left), a postdoctoral scholar working in the ...

Scientists have mapped the molecular structure of glutamate receptors in the cerebellum for the first time using ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition that affects a significant proportion of older people ...

While glucose, or sugar, is a well-known fuel for the brain, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have demonstrated that ...

Shedding light on how the brain fine-tunes its wiring during learning, a new study finds that different dendritic segments of a single neuron follow distinct rules. The findings challenge the idea ...

When a neuron “fires,” it sends an electrochemical signal called an action ... Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via ...

Without their molecular scaffolding, the synapses fall apart and the neuron cannot transmit the signal to the next neuron, disrupting the circuit. Arnold named the tools PFE3 and GFE3, which target ...