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

New structural markers of memory storage uncovered by Scripps Research may pave the way for new treatments for memory loss.

Over the past decade, a growing amount of research has revealed how liquid-liquid phase separation mediates protein interactions throughout the cell and, furthermore, at the synapse. While this ...

The functioning of the brain relies on the establishment of very precise connections between neurons: synapses. A recent study, published in Nature Neuroscience, reveals that the formation ...

By influencing calcium homeostasis, local protein synthesis and the endoplasmic reticulum, a small protein called Rab10 emerges as a crucial cytoplasmic regulator of neuropeptide secretion.

“We’re not gamblers,” Morris told the judge in a mid-November bankruptcy court hearing for Synapse, the financial services middleman that connected Yotta with banks, according to the transcript.

These were some of the questions that were addressed during the annual Synapse Conclave in the capital last month, where over 40 speakers, including Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

So, they obtained cochlear samples from adult mice that had normal hearing and were either exposed to psilocin or left untreated and labeled the synapses between cochlear hair cells and auditory ...

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