Silent synapses are dormant neural connections that hold untapped brain potential. Discover how ketamine, exercise, and other ...

The team led by Associate Professor Mario Lanza from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of ...

The functioning of the brain relies on the establishment of very precise connections between neurons: synapses. A recent ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Examples like Intel's Loihi chips tend to get competitive performance out of far lower clock speeds and energy use, but they ...

Using cutting-edge genetic tools, 3D electron microscopy, and artificial intelligence, Scripps Research scientists and colleagues have uncovered key structural hallmarks of long-term memory, called an ...

When under stress, neurons crank out tau fragments, and many scientists blame this for the propagation of tangle pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. The fragments also directly compromise synapses they ...

The scientists found that aging weakens the connections between different parts of the brain, making it harder for neurons ...

As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental temperature. A research team has recently demonstrated how temperature can affect ...

In a study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers revealed the structural underpinnings of memory formation across a broad network of neurons in the mouse brain.