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·December 15, 2025·5 min read

Neurons Use a Fast Structural Signal to Stabilize Communication

Neurons can rapidly rebalance their communication using a structural signal rather than electrical activity, overturning long-held assumptions about how synapses maintain stability. When receptors on the receiving side of a synapse were blocked, they physically reorganized, triggering the sending neuron to increase neurotransmitter release and preserve steady signaling.

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·October 31, 2025·7 min read

How “Frazzled” Keeps the Brain Wired for Lightning-Fast Communication

Scientists have uncovered a key role for the protein “Frazzled” in building and maintaining the rapid neural connections that allow fruit flies to react in milliseconds. When Frazzled is missing, neurons lose vital gap junctions, slowing communication and weakening muscle responses.

This shows the neurotransmitter replaced by a photon

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·April 6, 2023·5 min read

Using Photons as Neurotransmitters to Control the Activity of Neurons

Researchers present a new system that uses photons instead of chemical neurotransmitters to control neural activity.

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·February 10, 2023·4 min read

Cocaine Use Disorder Alters Gene Networks of Neuroinflammation and Neurotransmission in Humans

Cocaine use disorder alters gene expression in the nucleus accumbens and caudate nucleus, brain areas associated with reward, and the mediation of habit formation.

This shows a v-atpases on a synaptic vesicle

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·November 23, 2022·5 min read

Major Discovery About Mammalian Brains Surprises Researchers

V-ATPase, a vital enzyme that enables neurotransmission is able to switch on and off randomly, even taking hours-long breaks.

This shows glutamate on a hippocampal neuron

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·July 27, 2022·2 min read

A Methodological Leap in the Exploration of Memory

Researchers have developed a comprehensive "toolbox" to establish that the mobility of receptors exists in intact brain tissue, and this mobility is critical for certain types of memory.