Nerve cells, or neurons, are the basic functional units of the ... making it possible for neurons to pass ion currents directly through gap junctions. For this reason, electrical synapses work faster ...

The brain is an information-processing organ, and the brain cells that relay ... signal must cross the gap between neurons (the synapse), where it is translated from an electrical signal to ...

An electrical impulse cannot directly cross the gap so a different mechanism has ... to prevent continuous stimulation of postsynaptic neurons. There are two types of removal: Re-uptake ...

Central to this activity are synapses, the junctions where branches of neurons connect, similar to electrical wires. Here, an ...

Because these tadpoles are transparent and their developmental stage readily identified, we are able to image and record the electrical activity in ... A population of gap junction-coupled neurons ...

With the strong associations established in epidemiologic studies and a dearth of evidence on the actual mechanisms by which ...