Summary: New research uncovers how tau pathology spreads and damages synapses in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Using ...

Team member Martin Hruska ’s experiments revealed that as spines increase in size, they add modular units of synaptic proteins, dubbed nanomodules. “This result suggests that changes in synaptic ...

Synaptic transmission: Not a one-way street Date: May 19, 2021 Source: Institute of Science and Technology Austria Summary: When neuroscientists analyzed the exact properties of nerve connections ...

Vesicular GABA Uptake Can Be Rate Limiting for Recovery of IPSCs from Synaptic Depression. Cell Reports, 2018; 22 (12): 3134 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.02.080 ...

It might be due to problems with releasing neurotransmitters, but it might also be because vesicles movements are somehow impaired inside the pre-synaptic neuron," concluded Dr. Guillaud.

Each neuron has only a single axon that extends from the soma, and acts similar to an electrical wire. Each axon will terminate with terminal fibers, forming synapses with as many as 1,000 other ...