The functioning of the brain relies on the precise organization of neuronal connections. In an article published in ...

Researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a large ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

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Scientists have identified a biomarker for Alzheimer's that may help doctors spot the early signs of protein buildup in the ...

Scientists develop groundbreaking dual-action drug RI-AG03 that targets toxic tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease, showing ...

Ideally the characterization of a neuron will consider all three sets of criteria, but as neurons do not have an autonomous morphology, molecular biology, or physiology, these multidimensional ...

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

New research details the subcellular structures in neurons that enable signals to be transmitted from where they are received at specific sites on dendrites to the decision-making cell body located ...

Quantum computers process multiple possibilities at once, unlike traditional computers. Quantum properties like entanglement ...