How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are ...

Brain ion channels have molecular memory, changing shape after repeated signals, affecting neurotransmitter release.

The connections between brain cells have been mapped with unprecedented molecular resolution using a new light-microscopy ...

Research indicates that doing nothing will reduce blood flow and oxygen levels to the brain, negatively impacting cognitive ...

Without their molecular scaffolding, the synapses fall apart and the neuron cannot transmit the signal to the ... one by light (paGFE3) and one by a chemical signal (chGFE3). Significantly, the ...

However, unraveling the complex details and architecture of the brain remains a seemingly impossible challenge, considering its billions of densely packed neurons, each linked to other cells via ...

These chemical messengers such as dopamine ... allowing ion flow that excites or inhibits the postsynaptic neuron. Excitatory synapses promote action potentials by depolarizing the membrane ...

Infants and young children are regularly exposed to potentially harmful environmental chemicals—including phthalates, flame retardants, and more—while they sleep, according to a pair of ...

Thus neuron-to-neuron signaling is also possible without either chemical or electric synapses. Although it is too early to say whether such long-distance signaling is functionally significant ...

Synapses are the junctions between neurons in the brain, where information is conveyed from one neuron to the next through chemical neurotransmitters encased in synaptic vesicles. These vesicles ...