In new work published in Neuron, Stevens and colleagues reveal the flip side: a "don't eat me" signal that prevents microglia from pruning useful connections away. The signal, a protein called ...

Lower motor neurons carry ... way these signals travel, signals move much faster across electrical synapses than chemical synapses. However, these signals can diminish from one neuron to the ...

A new study published in Science has found that neurons in the brain do not follow a single strategy when learning. Instead, ...

Dendrites — these thin filaments carry ... a synapse. Synapses can be electrical or chemical. In other words, the signal that is carried from the first nerve fiber (presynaptic neuron) to ...

A neuron is a cell that can transmit electrical and chemical signals ... away from the soma along the axon. Other important structures include the neuronal membrane, the synapse, and the myelin ...

Scientists report evidence that individual neurons carry ... synapses on a single neuron in a living mammalian brain. Focusing on neurons involved in processing movement-related signals, they ...

Neurons communicate by means of electrical pulses, called spikes, exchanged via synapses ... It is thought to carry much more neural information than subsequent serial spike signals.

OIST scientists set out to investigate the paths of these vesicles, suspecting these cellular vehicles stalling or failing to carry ... neuron's membrane to release neurotransmitters into the ...

Our cerebral circuitry changes constantly—every day, new links are made amongst the 86 billion individual neurons in our heads, and old connections are allowed to fall away. The result is a ...

They're not only listening to what each neuron is saying ... a neurotransmitter that carries the electrical signal across the tiny gap between neurons known as a synapse. People have tried ...

A transistor can be thought of as an analog to the synapse (connection) between two neurons. Each time a signal is sent from one neuron to another ... and ability to carry information.