Researchers say homeostatic synaptic plasticity facilitates Hebbian plasticity, influencing memory formation and learning.
Synaptic pruning occurs as a result of mechanical tearing, a new study reveals.
Researchers examine if the size of synapses alters during sleep and wake states.
John Hopkins researchers have uncovered new details that may explain, on a molecular level, how ECT relieves severe depression in mammals.
Researchers engineered microscopic probes which light up synapses in living neurons by attaching fluorescent markers onto synaptic proteins without affecting the neuron's ability to function.
A new study reports that a single stressful event may cause long term consequences in the brain.
In older mice, adult neurons in the primary visual cortex with an increased number of "silent synapses" and lacking PSD-95, showed the same structural changes only seen previously in younger animals.
A new study reveals molecular details of what happens when axons are damaged or completely severed.
Researchers find the MIM protein bends plasma membrane to aid the formation of dendritic spines from the surface of the neuronal dendrite.
Researchers have developed a new technology in order to regenerate functional neurons after brain injury.
Scientists at UCSF uncover the molecular basis of gentle touch, one of the most fundamental, but least well understood of our senses.
Researchers have developed a new technique that helps identify the functional properties of individual synapses that link the two hemispheres of the brain.
