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Scientists divide thousands of different neurons into groups based on function and shape. Let's discuss neuron anatomy and how it varies.

Characterization of intracellular synapse heterogeneity aides to understand the intricate computational logic of neuronal circuits. Despite recent advances in connectomics, the spatial patterns of ...

A new study published in Science has found that neurons in the brain do not follow a single strategy when learning. Instead, different parts of the same neuron—its upper and lower branches ...

Neuron-to-neuron communication that allows the brain to coordinate activity and store new information takes place at synapses.

When the vesicle fuses with the neuron's membrane to release neurotransmitters into the synapse, some of these antibodies enter the emptying vesicle and hook themselves in.

Yale researchers used light to probe the actions of the neurotransmitter GABA on single synapses along the branches of a neuron. The work, appearing in the May 10 issue of the journal Science, ...

Thus, a synapse has a natural, preferred frequency for optimal learning. That conclusion led the researchers to compare optimal frequencies based on the location of the synapse on a neuron.

The latter is essential for assigning the labeled receptors within the dense neuronal network to those cells that are of particular interest.

The researchers first had to identify synapses hidden within the tangle of the three different cells that converge at the site: the pre-synaptic axon from a distant neuron; its target, the post ...