Excitatory synapses are located in confined chemical spaces called the dendritic ... neuron are heavily enriched in specialized membrane structures that are directly apposed to the glutamate ...

Chemical synapses are complex structures that mediate rapid intercellular signalling in the nervous system. Proteomic studies suggest that several hundred proteins will be found at synaptic ...

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

Our research is focused on molecular and supramolecular structures that facilitate communication between neurons at the chemical synapse and how such structures are perturbed in neurological disease.

Complex protein interactions at synapses ... inside-droplet" structures observed in earlier experiments. Through simulations and detailed analyses of the physical forces and chemical interactions ...

Learning requires the chemical adaptation of individual synapses. Researchers have now ... of memories requires subtle changes in brain structures. This is because learning and memory are the ...

USC researchers developed genetically engineered tools that can selectively and reversibly dismantle excitatory or inhibitory synapses. This method allows scientists to break and restore specific ...

Our research is focused on molecular and supramolecular structures that facilitate communication between neurons at the chemical synapse and how such structures are perturbed in neurological disease.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended the decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or ...

Rodin Therapeutics said Thursday it has begun testing a recently developed radioactive chemical that binds with a protein present in synapses, structures that allow nerve cells to pass electrical ...

ACS) The human nervous system is made up of over 100 trillion synapses, structures that allow neurons to pass electrical and chemical signals to one another. In mammals, these synapses can initiate ...

According to textbook neuroscience, they form when neighboring brain cells send chemical communications across the synapses, or junctions, that connect them. Each time a memory is recalled ...