Axon and dendritic guidance is the biological process by which growing axons and dendrites orient and navigate to their targets during the development of the nervous system.

News & Views Published: August 2000 Neuroligation: building synapses around the neurexin–neuroligin link Anuradha Rao, Kimberly J. Harms & Ann Marie Craig Nature Neuroscience 3, 747–749 (2000 ...

A key feature that appears to facilitate neuroplasticity is the distinct nature of neurons compared to other cells.

Each neuron had the following compartments outlined: soma, dendrite (15 μm away from the soma, 15 μm in length, three to four dendrites analyzed per neuron), and AIS (defined as described by Evans et ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition that affects a significant proportion of older people ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what ...

This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...

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 ...

Based on several lines of interesting data, the authors conclude that FMRP, though associated with stalled ribosomes, does not determine the position on the mRNAs at which ribosomes stall. Although ...