Xenopus laevis tadpole FLICKR, BIODIVLIBRARY The formation of certain neural circuits may be more simple than once thought, according to a paper published this week (January 8) in The Journal of ...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1906 (Ref. 1) The synapse was originally envisioned as a simple gap across which nerve impulses must leap to travel from one neuron to the next. This early view ...

By contrast, additive and subtractive adjustments in synaptic weights will alter relative efficacy by disproportionately affecting small synapses. Simple Hebbian learning rules do not ...

It makes it seem as if the synapse is simple and all figured out, when actually it’s mostly baffling. I was reminded of its complexity by a study published in today’s issue of Science .