This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks that govern thought, behavior, and consciousness. It also explores how ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition in which affected individuals experience ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition in which affected individuals experience ...

School of Information Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, P. R. China College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106 ...

My life as an undergraduate was very different — as a... [Originally published in Synapse on April 29, 1997.] There is nothing like springtime and nowhere like San Francisco to experience... Have you ...

As published April 17 in the journal Science, the researchers used a cutting-edge brain visualization methodology, including two-photon imaging, to zoom into the brain activity of mice and track the ...

Conventional wisdom has treated a neuron as if it obeys a single plasticity rule throughout its structure. If a particular pattern of electrical spikes strengthens one synapse on a cell, the same ...

In apical dendrites, synapses were strengthened when they were coactive with nearby neighbors, suggesting that plasticity here is governed by local interactions between adjacent inputs. In contrast, ...

We were surprised to find that the synapses on a neuron don't all follow the same rule. For example, scientists have often thought that neurons follow what are called Hebbian rules, where neurons ...

When a neuron “fires,” it sends an electrochemical ... and the junctions at which these structures connect are called synapses. We also know that not all neural connections are equal.