Since there are about 86 billion neurons in the brain, the synapses that connect them look ... scientists to work so hard on an insect wiring diagram, but fruit fly brains actually have quite ...

Brain wiring diagrams are a first step towards understanding ... branches meet and transmit signals between neurons are ...

At excitatory synapses in the cerebral cortex, the most numerous synapses in our brain, the presynaptic nerve ending contains several tens to a few hundreds of synaptic vesicles filled with the ...

Building a brain with digital devices is seemingly impossible. - Image used only for illustrative purpose A team of US researchers has developed an "artificial synapse" that does not process ...