Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

New research from MIT suggests that astrocytes - long considered support cells - may play a key role in the human brain's ...

In this mechanism, synaptic strength may be normalized for distance simply by virtue of the morphology and passive membrane properties of a neuron 6. In short, distal synapses that contact small ...

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our ...

A new study by Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct ...

A new study from Pitt researchers challenges long-held views on synaptic transmission. They discovered that the brain uses ...

Discover how neuromorphic computing mimics the brain to power efficient, adaptive AI for robotics, healthcare, IoT, and ...

UT Southwestern Scientists have identified the protein GADD45G as a master regulator of reactive gliosis, a damaging process ...

As artificial intelligence and smart devices continue to evolve, machine vision is taking an increasingly pivotal role as a ...

As artificial intelligence and smart devices continue to evolve, machine vision is taking an increasingly pivotal role as a ...

“We’re not gamblers,” Morris told the judge in a mid-November bankruptcy court hearing for Synapse, the financial services ...