The interlinking of neurons during childhood results in many more synapses than remain in the adult brain. The reduction in synapses that happens as a person grows up is thought to be adaptive ...

Researchers have identified a unique mitochondrial process in CA2 neurons that supports learning, memory, and social ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial pathway that links brain cell activity to the activation of genes responsible for ...

Xenon is one of the six noble gases. Its name derives from the Greek word for “strange”. In medicine, it has been used as an anaesthetic since the early 1950s and, more recently, to treat brain ...

Enter SynPull, a new synaptosome imaging method developed by David Klenerman, John Danial, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, England. SynPull combines single-molecule pull-down of ...