Your brain is carrying more spare wiring than anyone suspected. In a study that upended a long-standing assumption in ...
"The properties of synaptotagmin 1 appear to contribute to the fact that the cortical synapses we examined are not only more reliable, but also more plastic—a fundamental prerequisite for the brain's ...
Our survival depends upon our ability to observe the world around us accurately and reliably. Disturbances in visual perception occur in a range of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases, ...
The brain's cerebral cortex produces perception based on the sensory information it's fed through a region called the thalamus. "How the thalamus communicates with the cortex in a fundamental feature ...
The microscopic image shows a nerve cell and a magnified view of the investigated synapses. Calcium was released at these sites using a UV flash, which triggered the release of the neurotransmitter.
Neurodegenerative diseases rank among the most profound tragedies of the human condition, capable in various forms of robbing the afflicted of a lifetime of memories, basic comprehension, sense of ...
Researchers at MIT found that roughly a quarter to a third of all synapses in the adult mouse cortex are functionally silent, ...