Researchers from Bonn and Japan have clarified how neighboring synapses coordinate their response to plasticity signals: Nerve cells in the brain receive thousands of synaptic signals via their ...

Nerve cells in the brain receive thousands of synaptic signals via their "antenna", the so-called dendritic branch. Permanent changes in synaptic strength correlate with changes in the size of ...

Spine plasticity is dependent on how many neighboring spines potentiate, the size and the spatial distribution of that “social network” determines the amount of plasticity each spine can have. Nerve ...

Neural plasticity depends on a reliable delivery team of Kinesin protein KIF5C to carry goods like RNA from cell body to synapse, a new study finds. The brain is wired for learning. With each ...

Cognitive tasks, such as learning and memory, require rapid changes to proteins at synapses, such as protein synthesis, degradation, and trafficking. How protein post-translational modifications ...

Developing brains constantly sprout new neuronal connections called synapses as they learn and remember. Important connections — the ones that are repeatedly introduced, such as how to avoid danger — ...

Using electron microscopy images, the researchers visualize the dendritic spines (yellow) with their spine apparatus (red) and the synapse terminal buttons (blue).[Andreas Vlachos] Brain plasticity, ...

A study maps how toxic tau disrupts synapses over time, showing early postsynaptic damage that later spreads presynaptically.

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a fundamental discovery about a key mechanism that enables nervous system ...