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 ...

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...

Scientists are looking at ways to tackle Alzheimer's and dementia from all kinds of angles, and a new study has identified ...

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the 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 ...

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...

“As far as I know, no one else has ever been able to ablate [knock out] specific synapses without affecting the whole neuron,” he said. The ability to selectively dismantle parts of a neural network — ...

Researchers have discovered how an ion channel in the brain's neurons has a kind of 'molecular memory', which contributes to the formation and preservation of lifelong memories. The researchers have ...