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 ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein's special role in getting ...

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

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 ...

More information: Mary H. Patton et al, Synaptic plasticity in human thalamocortical assembloids, Cell Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114503 Provided by St. Jude Children's Research ...

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 ...

An international group of scientists led by Ádám Dénes, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary, reported that the soma of neurons in both humans and mice is dotted with docking areas ...

The paper "Modification of synaptic-input clustering by intrinsic excitability plasticity on cerebellar Purkinje cell dendrites" appeared on 21 November 2019 in the Journal of Neuroscience, with ...

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 ...