Researchers have discovered the brain uses fat the same way muscles do — as an alternative fuel to glucose — going against ...

Researchers at Leipzig University’s Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

It shows the gist of how a synapse works: ... The active zone is again the glowing red part at the bottom. Wilhelm et al., Science 2014 (Click to enlarge) ...

True multicellular animals, the eumetazoans, have the ability to make specialized cell types, and that ability appears to have come equipped with a common genetic toolkit. Those common genes ...

The major finding: The synapses in question are not grouped randomly. Instead, like orchestra musicians sitting in their own sections, the synapses are bundled together by a key trait: plasticity.

They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope. "Electrical synapses are like the dark matter of the brain," says ...

The oblique dendritic domain (pink) contains stable synapses, and the basal dendritic domain (blue) contains plastic synapses. The cell body and part of the dendritic trunk are white.

Synapses in the brain mirror the structure of the visual world Date: July 12, 2017 Source: ... Individual parts of an image are, for instance, merged into lines, contours and objects.