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 ...

Two teams discover how small cell lung cancer hijacks neural pathways to proliferate faster, especially to the brain. Common ...

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

Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting millions of people worldwide. Published in the Journal of Neuroscience, new research from the ...

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

The axon terminals, also known as terminal buttons, are the branched endings of the axon. These terminals form synapses with other neurons or target cells, such as muscle cells or gland cells. The ...

In industrial biotechnology, enzymes are used in various applications, such as food processing, biofuel production, and the ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...

Activity-dependent modification of synapses is a powerful mechanism for shaping and modifying the response properties of neurons, but it is also dangerous. Unless changes in synaptic strength across ...

Synaptic plasticity is the biological process by which specific patterns of synaptic activity result in changes in synaptic strength and is thought to contribute to learning and memory. Both ...