Scientists at Yale and the University of Connecticut have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make decisions, revealing a crucial role for electrical synapses in “filtering” sensory ...

There are two main modalities of synaptic transmission: chemical and electrical. Although chemical synapses are perceived to be structurally more complex and functionally dynamic than electrical ...

They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope. "Electrical synapses are like the dark matter of the brain," says ...

Plasticity - the brain's ability to change based on experience and its own activity - is a key to critical functions such as making memories. For the first time, Brown University scientists have shown ...

University of Houston College of Optometry Professor John O’Brien, a leading expert on retinal neuroscience, has received $2.6 million from the National Eye Institute to continue more than 20 years of ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 37 (Sep. 13, 2005), pp. 13313-13318 (6 pages) Retinal bipolar cells are known to form a complex, ...