Researchers identify the Munc13-1 protein as a crucial molecular pathway for working memory, linking calcium signaling to synaptic strengthening.

Increasing inner ear synapse density enhances auditory processing in young mice. The findings may pave the way for new treatments for hearing disorders. The corresponding study was published in PLOS ...

A growing body of neuroscience research is challenging a basic assumption about how the brain produces awareness. Where conventional theories treat consciousness as a product of neuronal firing alone, ...

Researchers at CSU engineered recombinant enzymes that produce GABA in the nuclei (cyan) of human neurons (magenta) co-cultured with astrocytes (blue). This system was used to test whether nuclear ...

Scientists have made an enormous step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap -- scientifically speaking, a 'connectome' -- through the brain ...

Synapse loss is a common feature of neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, and schizophrenia, ...

Scientists have built a working simulation of an entire adult fruit fly brain and connected it to a physics-based virtual ...

Increasing physical fitness leads to a larger release of BDNF and better prefrontal cortex activity after a single session of exercise.

Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers. These ...

Researchers have found that while we sleep, we lose synaptic connections that have been forged while awake. ‘Why do we sleep?’ is a question that has puzzled scientists for a long time. Now, a study ...