Zap-and-freeze” high-resolution imaging visualizes synapses in action and may lead to a better understanding of conditions ...

New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 369, No. 1633, Synaptic plasticity in health and disease (5 January 2014), pp. 1-7 (7 pages) The prevailing view at present is that postsynaptic ...

(1) A nerve impulse arrives. (2) This causes calcium ion channels to open, resulting in an influx of calcium ions in the terminal. (3) This causes synaptic vesicles to fuse with the terminal membrane, ...

Scientists and engineers have modeled a hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain. The sensory organs that allow us to walk, dance and turn ...

Interactions of two voltage-gated calcium channels and a pump enable separate control of exocytosis and endocytosis at chemical synapses. Chemical synapses transmit information within the nervous ...

Presynaptic (red) and postsynaptic (blue/green) components of nanomodules in synaptic spines. Courtesy: Matthew Dalva Lab, Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) Changes in ...