"Even in older individuals, people aged 80, 90 or 95, there is still enough plasticity in synapse formation to retain memory. This means a therapy to remodel dendritic spines and synapses could ...

and at the end of each dendritic spine is the synapse—a tiny space where the two cells meet, and an electrochemical signal is transmitted. Different synapses are activated to send different ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...