Researchers have discovered that apical and basal dendrites of the same neuron use different strategies to learn, suggesting ...

Synapses can be electrical or chemical. In other words, the signal that is carried from the first nerve fiber (presynaptic neuron) to the next (postsynaptic neuron) is transmitted by an electrical ...

They are the most common neuron found in mammalian bodies. Neuron Function Synapses Neural synapses are junctions between neurons that permit neural communication. Synapses come in two different forms ...

When a neuron “fires,” it sends an electrochemical ... and the junctions at which these structures connect are called synapses. We also know that not all neural connections are equal.

“As far as I know, no one else has ever been able to ablate [knock out] specific synapses without affecting the whole neuron,” he said. The ability to selectively dismantle parts of a neural network — ...

Synapses are well-known to occur between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of other neurons, but had never been observed between the neuron's axon and the primary cilium. Janelia's high ...

Our research investigates how these liquid-like properties contribute to the main function of the neuron in synaptic ...

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These junctions provide a more direct, faster way to transmit information, like alterations to chromatin, to the neuron’s nucleus. This has potential for long-term effects facilitated by synapses on ...

But the new study suggests that a dysfunction in the neuron’s synapses — the tiny gap across which a neuron can send an impulse to another neuron — leads to deficits in dopamine and precedes the ...