Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal ...

Synapses are the connection points where neurons establish contact with each other to transmit information. For this ...

In contrast, plasticity in basal dendrites was linked to the neuron's overall output—strengthening or weakening depending on how synapse activity aligned with global action potential firing.

As you experience or encounter new things, your brain must encode this information via the right neural networks at the right ...

A groundbreaking new technique called EPSILON allows researchers to map the proteins involved in memory formation with ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...

A typical neuron is composed of three main structures ... One of their main responsibilities is to form synapses with incoming processes from other neurons (most of the time with another cell’s axon).

Each dendrite on a neuron is covered with tiny bulbous appendages, called dendritic spines, and at the end of each dendritic ...

Courtesy of Michael Dustin PASS IT ON: A T cell (blue) interacts with a dendritic cell (yellow) through a molecular pattern described as an immunological synapse (red = adhesion, green = foreign ...

Peripheral nerve injury triggers synaptic remodeling. The ganglioside GT1b stabilizes spinal excitatory synapses by ...